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" I contend that, in spite of all that might be said about Watergate, Richard Nixon was good for the poor people of America. "
Tony Campolo
Poor
About
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" That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved. "
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" If four years of university can increase your effectiveness of what you can do for others in the name of Christ, it is the best investment that you can make. But if the education is simply to get a job to make a lot of money, you have to raise the question of why you're doing it. "
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" In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer. "
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" Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God. "
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" It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God. "
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" I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us. "
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" Through the ages, God has used the church to keep alive and pass down the story of what Christ has done for us. "
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Story
" Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change. "
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" I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice. "
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Think
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" I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages. "
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Want
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" Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state. "
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" It's a new day for the Democrats when it comes to matters of faith, and the younger Evangelicals are aware of this and many of them are moving into the Democratic camp. "
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Moving
Matters
" There is a gift of the Holy Spirit that is given to both men and women in the New Testament. This is what makes the New Testament a New Testament rather than the Old Testament, in which women did not have such privileges. "
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New
Gift
Men
" In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo. "
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America
Status Quo
Status
" I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are wrong, and I speak to these things. But I could be wrong. "
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Church
" Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?' "
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Ask
God
People
" An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God. "
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God
Message
View
" If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be. "
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America
Country
God
" I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion. "
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Party
Abortion
" The Gospel is about grace and we all know that grace is about us receiving from God blessings that we don't deserve. "
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Us
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" Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross. "
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" Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic. "
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" Often, we ignore the fact that our spiritual condition and psychological state of mind are highly affected by what is happening to us physically. Sometimes depression is simply the result of exhaustion. "
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