Tony Campolo Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

  Tony Campolo

  Jesus, Church, World

• I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.

  Tony Campolo

  Couple, Rights, Church

• As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.

  Tony Campolo

  Creating, Church, Causes

• If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?

  Tony Campolo

  Government, Church, Sacred

  Tony Campolo (2010). “Red Letter Christians (Large Print 16pt)”, p.97, ReadHowYouWant.com

• It has taken countless hours of prayer, study, conversation and emotional turmoil to bring me to the place where I am finally ready to call for the full acceptance of Christian gay couples into the Church.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Prayer, Couple

• In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

  Tony Campolo

  America, Support, Church

  Tony Campolo (2008). “Letters To A Young Evangelical”, p.67, Basic Books

• Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

  Tony Campolo

  Church, Speak, Certain

• That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.

  Tony Campolo

  Religious, Europe, Cities

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