Tony Campolo Quotes

The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make.

Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth

Young men and women, your education is ever important - to us, to you, and to God.

A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints.

The goal of the pastor is not to get people to show up but to get people to grow up.

The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.

A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

It's important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections.

My parents... has always wanted all their kids to go to at least one year of Bible college after high school. I always knew that I was on my way to Moody Bible Institute when I graduated high school.

At the parish level, where the church lives and moves and breathes, that's where we need to be engaging our people much more in understanding the Word of God... the Word of God reflected in the traditional teaching of the church, the Word of God reflected in the scriptures, is as much a part of their lives as anything else.

The school intends to provide an education based upon religious principles which, preserving the modesty and gentleness of the female character, should so far cultivate a girl’s intellectual powers as to fit her for the discharge of those responsible duties which devolve upon her as a wife, mother and friend, the natural companion and helpmate for man.

It's certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout's obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.

I'm just like you - I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, 'I'm a Christian.' I always think, 'Already? You've already got it?' I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96.

Primary education was in the first place to teach people to be good people. Only secondary education teaches people to also be useful people.

I find that my upbringing in the Church and my relationship with God are huge benefits to me in helping me become the kind of person that I want to become.

I feel like the eight most at-risk years for young men or young women are the four they're in high school and the four they should be in college.