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• Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.

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  Artist, Obscurity, Theologian

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• Jesus is the only Savior, but not everybody who is saved by Him is aware that He is the one who is doing the saving.

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  Jesus, Saving, Savior

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• I’ve got to push everything out of mind save the name of Jesus. I say His name over and over again, for as long as fifteen minutes, until I find my soul suspended in what the ancient Celtic Christians called a “thin place”–a state where the boundary between heaven and earth, divine and human, dissolves. You could say that I use the name of Jesus as my koan.

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  Christian, Jesus, Names

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• Rise up, you suckers, and go out and do the work of Jesus!

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  Jesus, Work, Sucker

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• When in fact we live in a society that makes life hell for gays and lesbians, this community has got to stand up and say, ‘We’re on your side as you struggle for dignity,’ and, ‘Yes, we will defy anybody who says otherwise, even if we have to go to Disneyland to prove it.’

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  Struggle, Gay, Your Side

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• Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

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  Jobs, People, Guilt

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• It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

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  Names, People, Evil

  "The Growing Impossibility of Interfaith Dialogue" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 14, 2011.

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• In baptism, new Christians become part of a body of fellow believers who are called to spiritually encourage one another and hold one another responsible for consistent Christian living.

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  Christian, Baptism, Body

  Tony Campolo (2008). “Letters To A Young Evangelical”, p.70, Basic Books

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• Furthermore, consider that as one of its most important purposes, stewardship of creation should sustain nature's worshiping capacity. The more I reflect on Scriptures and the more I sense how God thrills to the adoration He receives from all that He has created, the more I realize He has given us the awesome responsibility of caring for His creation so that it can go on praising Him until the end of time.

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  Responsibility, Caring, Important

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• I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.

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  Biblical, Thinking, Community

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• What I am trying to say is that Jesus who incarnated God 2,000 years ago is mystically present and waiting to be discovered in EVERY person you and I encounter

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  Jesus, Years, Waiting

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• If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.

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  Country, America, Arrogant

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• If fulfillment is gained through giving ourselves through intimate relationships, then allowing ourselves to be consumed with the cares of things, instead of the care of persons, is foolish.

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  Intimate Relationships, Giving, Care

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• Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, "If I should wake before I die. . . ." Life can get away from you.

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  Life, Praying, Should

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• There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

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  Religious, Understanding, Doubt

  "Religion After Freud" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2007.

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• Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it was the superego - that idealized concept of what a good person is supposed to be and do - given to us by our parents, that condemned us for what had been hitherto regarded as ungodly behavior.

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  Taught Us, Parent, Lines

  "Religion After Freud" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2007.

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• It is hard to say what the future holds, but this is probable - it won't be just like the past.

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  Past, Probable Cause, Hard

  "The Changing Politics of Evangelicals" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2007.

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• In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion.

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  Thinking, Abortion, Moral

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• Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more people intuitively recognize that His vision of God's kingdom-a new world of compassion, justice, integrity and peace- is the Good News they've been searching and waiting for.

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  Jesus, Integrity, Godly

  Tony Campolo (2010). “Red Letter Christians (Large Print 16pt)”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The kingdom of God is a glorious and gigantic party!

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  Party, Kingdoms, Kingdom Of God

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• I do not mean that others represent Jesus for us. I mean that Jesus actually is present in each other person

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  Jesus, Mean, Persons

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• I've always been skeptical of those television healers who are bald. If I had that gift, that'd be the first thing I'd fix.

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  Television, Firsts, Skeptical

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• Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.

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  Party, Republican, Claims

  "The Surprising Evangelical Support for Newt Gingrich" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2012.

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• Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.

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  Kids, Grandchildren, Rewards

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• When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

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  Evil, Islam, Muhammad

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