Tony Campolo Quotes

God lives. I know that He lives. I know that Jesus is the Christ and the Redeemer of the world.

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love; he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.

Pluralism is denied logically; inclusivism is denied scripturally, and that leaves us with exclusivism... you have to know that Jesus died and believe in it in order to be saved.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

I believe Jesus Christ is God. I believe He loves every single human being that has ever lived, no matter what they have done, even if they don't believe in Him.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

I love the Lord Jesus Christ and His Church, which has been restored to the earth in our day. I treasure the teachings of His holy life from newborn infant to resurrected man, Son of God.

I can't help but tell people of the greatest story ever told - God's love and our eternal life.

With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

There can be no doubt that the blessing, of which believers are heirs, is justification by faith; and that the promise, according to which they are heirs of this blessing, is the gospel promise made to Abraham.

Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ.

For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.

It is no accident that faith in Jesus Christ - not only believing in Him but believing Him - is the first principle of the gospel.

When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.

I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too... Hold fast to Christ.

I know Jesus Christ died for my sins, and that's all I really need to know.

It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings.

Christ is dead and his teachings moribund.

Wherever we turn in the church of God, there is Jesus. He is the beginning, middle and end of everything to us.

The gospel is the good news that the everlasting and ever-increasing joy of the never-boring, ever-satisfying Christ is ours freely and eternally by faith in the sin-forgiving death and hope-giving resurrection of Jesus Christ.

God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.

The words 'come unto Christ' are an invitation. It is the most important invitation you could ever offer to another person. It is the most important invitation anyone could accept.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.