Tony Campolo Quotes

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.

Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.

I believe we don't need to widen the divide between the West and Islam. Rather, we need to build dialogue to encourage tolerance and respect.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

I respect religion and will respect any religion.

Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find - I think education is something that can bring us together.

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

Toleration is the best religion.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

I lead a multi-faith life.

I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed

Knowledge about religions is not only characteristic of an educated person, but is also absolutely necessary for understanding and living in a world of diversity.

There will be no lasting peace on earth unless we learn not merely to tolerate but even to respect the other faiths as our own.

I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.

There is No Hindu, There is No Muslim.

I hope for an America where neither "fundamentalist" nor "humanist" will be a dirty word, but a fair description of the different ways in which people of good will look at life and into their own souls.

None of us should sit in judgment in the way that anyone else practices his religion.

One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man.

Muslims and Christians are brothers.

I don't have a problem with other people having different faith; my problem is if we confuse respecting that with surrendering our own faith.

Our religions are much more similar than they are different.

I respect every religion.