Tony Campolo Quotes

I can't believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.

There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.

In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I'd have to suspend a degree of disbelief.

I'm not really into religion.

You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

If we are too friendly to nice, decent bishops, we run the risk of buying into the fiction that there's something virtuous about believing things because of faith rather than because of evidence. We run the risk of betraying scientific enlightenment.

If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.

It is altogether proper for people to recognize a sovereign God.

Theology necessitates an image of God as a conscious, rational, supernatural being of unlimited power and scope who cares about humans and imposes moral codes and responsibilities upon them, thereby generating serious intellectual questions such as: 'Why does God allow us to sin?' 'Does the Sixth Commandment prohibit war?'

I think there's a difference between God and religion.

If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.

I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.

I don't really like the word 'religion.' To me, that's like rules and regulations and paying money to send up prayers. That kind of all weirds me out, honestly.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.

The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.

As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.

Though I believe in God, I don't believe in religion for everybody. Some people who are a little weak and don't want to shoulder any responsibility need Catholicism. For people at the other extreme, there is Christian Science... I think a powerful conscience is worth all the religions put together.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.

I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God.

I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God.

I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.