Tony Campolo Quotes

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.

No, we are not the master of the state, said King. We are not the servant of the state. We are the conscience of the state. The churches or the religious community should be, I think, the conscience of the state. We're not just service providers.

The Dali Llama uses religion to intervene in politics.

I cannot accept concepts such as Gulenism or Gulenist. I was only a writer and an official preacher among people. I can have no direct influence on any person or activity. It is inconceivable that I can exert pressure on anybody.

In the community, in the African-American community, one person ought to say something, and that is the minister. The minister is paid by the people. He doesn't work for a big company. He doesn't represent a particular special interest.

To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.

I do think there's a difference between what a religious leader says and does and what a public official or legislator does. But there's no question that a lot of our legal underpinnings find a good bit of their foundations in the Scriptures.

We have to take the biblical truth and start applying it in the statehouse, the schoolhouse, and the marketplace.

The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here.

I almost became a political journalist, having worked as a reporter at the time of Watergate. The proximity to those events motivated me, when I wound up doing philosophy, to try to use it to move the public debate.

To me, its seems necessary to rediscover - and the energy to do so exists - that even the political and economic spheres need moral responsibility, a responsibility that is born in man's heart and, in the end, has to do with the presence or absence of God.

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

It is not for the pastors of the Church to intervene directly in the political construction and organization of social life.

Parishes can help lift up the moral and human dimension of public issues, calling people to informed participation in the political process.

The duty of the church is to march to the ballot box, an army of Christ, with the banners of the cross, and deposit, as she can, a million votes for her true representative …

Those who dare to speak out about major public events may not receive tangible benefits, but they receive the very considerable reward of high moral reputation among fellow Chinese as well as in the international community.

This is my compass, my North Star, it gives me comfort and guidance to do what’s best for Arkansas. The Bible is not a rule book for political issues … everybody can see it differently

I was simply inviting our religious leaders who are obviously important voices in our country to do more, to speak on behalf of the voiceless which is what religious leadership is supposed to do…. it is regrettable that a large section of these religious leaders have been co-opted by the regime through patronage arrangements….

There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right.

Me talking about political issues on a social platform was kind of an accident. It's something that's a part of my everyday - it's super central to who I am as a person.

I would rather be an aware citizen, and if an opportunity were to arise where I would have to make a statement, I would happily do that.

For free-speech principles to be reinforced and free-market ideas to win the day, more people are going to have to stand up and be heard.

It's hard not to be political.