#ge

Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#bloc #christians #decades #evangelical #ignored

I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#am #bill #bill clinton #bush #called

I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#applaud #commitment #evangelicals #growing #i

He was a god above her, powerful, beautiful, larger than life. The light brought out the latent gold of his hair. The shadows contoured the perfect form of his body. Light and shadows converged in his eyes, bright lust, dark anger, and something else. Something else entirely. She recognized it because she’d seen it in the mirror so many times: a bleak, austere loneliness. ↗

— Sherry Thomas

#sherry-thomas #vere #anger

We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about. ↗

— Max Cannon

#get #like #our #pet #religious

Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#god #institution #marriage #ordained #out

So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#after #bible #changed #continued #everything

Thank goodness women aren’t as superficial as men. Where would a guy like me be if all women cared about were looks? The plastic surgeon’s office, that’s where. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#male-beauty #men #plastic-surgeon #plastic-surgery #ugly

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#anything #case #christians #defines #design

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question. ↗

— Albert Camus

#any #asked #charm #clear #getting