Red Letter Christians Quotes

“But isn't it time for Christians to admit that we should reject bargains if they are gained by the exploitation of the poorest of the poor in developing countries?”
― Tony Campolo, Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics

“Perhaps because our culture and politics have gone so off course, with values so contrary to those of Jesus, more and more people intuitively recognize that His vision of God's kingdom-a new world of compassion, justice, integrity and peace- is the Good News they've been searching and waiting for.”
― Tony Campolo, Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics

“Because I am not yet living up to what Jesus expects me to be in those red letters in the Bible, I always define myself as somebody who is saved by God's grace and is on his way to becoming a Christian. (...) Being saved is trusting in what Christ did for us, but being Christian is dependent on the way we respond to what he did for us.”
― Tony Campolo, Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics

“He [William Jennings Bryan] recognized that what Darwin proposed on the biological level, when applied on the societal level, might legitimize an ideology that supports the survival of the fittest, with all of its dire complications. Byran was able to envision the kind of society that Social Darwinism would create- the kind of exploitation that comes from unbridled capitalism, for instance- and chose to war against it.”
― Tony Campolo, Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics

“Each Christian must work out his or her own “salvation” on political issues (see Phil 2:12), listening to what is said on all sides and then making personal decisions.”
― Tony Campolo, Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics

“We are told in Scripture that our work is approved by God when we correctly handle knowledge and truth (see 2 Tim. 2:15). We are required to have a reason for the hope that lies within us (see 1 Pet. 3:15). Blind patriotism is not a virtue.”
― Tony Campolo, Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics