Tony Campolo Quotes

I don't believe in the death penalty, but I understand personal vengeance.

I'm absolutely confident that the God that I worship abhors violence.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.

I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!

What I'm trying to argue, as passionately as I can, is that the Jesus story isn't worth dying for, it's worth living for. Jesus presents a third way, a way of being in the worth that embraces the Sermon on the Mount, with its challenge to violence and greed.

Let’s open our hearts to [crime] victims and their families and give them something more than vengeance.

Islam never allows a Muslim to kill the innocent and the helpless.

Justice is never advanced in the taking of a human life.

The goal of embodying Christian ethics - if you want to call yourself a Christian - is being patient and loving with your neighbor.

The men on death row had been told the world would be better without them. I tried to say that this may not be where we want to be, but let's do what we can for one another.

A man who dies, no matter how terrible his crime was, must be brought to burial.

Good Christians should never avenge injuries.

Jesus didn't teach people to kill.

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

Noah is the battle of justice versus mercy. In Genesis it says that Noah was righteous in his times. You think you sort of know what righteous means, you know, if you listen to a lot of Bob Marley. According to all the biblical scholars we talked to, righteousness is the proper balance of justice and mercy. If you think of that, as a parent, you know that if you have too much justice and you're too strict, you destroy a child. If you have too much mercy, as a parent, you destroy a child as well. A big part of this movie is Noah finding mercy for man.

It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged

Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept.

Let not your rage or malice destroy a life.

Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.

The movement to abolish the death penalty needs the religious community because the heart of religion is about compassion, human rights, and the indivisible dignity of each human person made in the image of God.

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.