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  • Evangelicals catapulted George W. Bush back to the White House. -- Al Sharpton
  • I applaud the growing commitment of Evangelicals to the needs of the poor and oppressed in urban America. -- Tony Campolo
  • Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic. -- Tony Campolo
  • Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.' -- Tony Campolo
  • Evangelicals need to take a good look at what their issues are. Are they really being faithful to Jesus? Are they being faithful to the Bible? -- Tony Campolo
  • Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left. -- Billy Graham
  • There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian community, but also in what transpires in mainline denominations. -- Tony Campolo
  • 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. -- Tony Campolo
  • Most Evangelicals have the church to thank for the Sunday-school classes that taught us what the Bible says and paved the way for our eventual decisions to commit our lives to Christ. -- Tony Campolo
  • There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it. -- Samantha Power
  • The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication. -- Tony Campolo
  • I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family. -- Tony Campolo
  • The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media. -- Tony Campolo
  • Evangelicals too often fall short in their actual teachings about Judaism. -- Elliott Abrams
  • Evangelicals have largely misinterpreted Aquinas, and they have placed on him views that he did not hold. -- Norman Geisler
  • Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here. -- John Piper
  • The way even movements change is stunning: Chinese communist capitalists? Evangelicals deciding to be nice to gay people? -- Frank Schaeffer
  • Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white. -- Christian Smith
  • While contemporary non-Evangelicals have virtually reduced faith to 'courageous ignorance,' Evangelicals have hardly been faithful in defending God's objective communication of truth. -- Ronald H. Nash
  • Evangelicals have to face it (like Roman Catholics of 16th century had to): Increasingly, our version of Good News is neither news nor good. -- Samir Selmanovic
  • Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values. -- Tony Campolo
  • It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women. -- Sally Quinn
  • The many - and by the way, white, black, Asian, it covers everybody. Evangelicals, conservatives, Tea Partyers. Everybody has been hurt by the incompetent way that our government is run. By incompetent negotiators. -- Donald Trump
  • We have fools in all sects, and impostors in most; why should I believe mysteries no one can understand, because written by men who chose to mistake madness for inspiration and style themselves Evangelicals? -- Lord Byron
  • Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding with God while everyone else must pass through the priestly bureaucracy. -- Isabel Allende
  • Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries. -- Hanna Rosin
  • Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age. -- Gary Bauer
  • I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion. -- Tony Campolo
  • When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves. -- Tony Campolo
  • The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media. -- Tony Campolo
  • I think there are other issues that the Democrats could use to rally evangelicals. There are a lot of us, for instance, who believe that the Bible calls us to be environmentally responsible. -- Tony Campolo
  • True, the apostles did not expressly say that people will be saved only if they repent, believe, and confess. But most evangelicals assume - with good reason - that this is what the apostles implied. -- Lewis B. Smedes
  • When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic. -- Tony Campolo
  • Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972. -- Steven Pinker
  • The age of the Earth is a hotly debated issue among evangelicals. Old Earthers believe, like most scientists, that the universe is billions of years old. Young Earthers measure the age of the universe in terms of thousands of years. -- Norman Geisler
  • 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. -- Tony Campolo
  • I think evangelicals would do better if they concentrated less on bolstering the formal authority of the Scripture - which I certainly would want to affirm - and more on displaying how biblical texts can shape lives in salutary ways, how they are fruitful texts, how they are texts one can live according to. -- Miroslav Volf
  • The shelves of many evangelicals are full of books that point out the flaws in evolution, discuss it only as a theory, and almost imply that there's a conspiracy here to avoid the fact that evolution is actually flawed. All of those books, unfortunately, are based upon conclusions that no reasonable biologist would now accept. -- Francis Collins
  • If the evangelicals vote, they determine the election. -- Ted Haggard
  • Listening to evangelicals bridges major political fault line. -- Barack Obama
  • I do think evangelicals have been under attack. -- Frank Schaeffer
  • Thanks [Donald] Trump for exposing evangelicals as 'shameless hypocrites'. -- Bill Maher
  • I think the evangelicals think they're in a holy war now. -- Maureen Dowd
  • Christians are supposed to be evangelicals. And I am. I am evangelical. -- Jimmy Carter
  • Even evangelicals realize that Pinocchio's father was a carpenter too. That's the old joke. -- Robin Williams
  • In particular, the emerging call from our nation's evangelicals to protect God's creation is substantial -- Jim Clyburn
  • In particular, the emerging call from our nation's evangelicals to protect God's creation is substantial. -- Jim Clyburn
  • One thing evangelicals want is a reprieve from intolerance against their beliefs, values, and practices. -- Ronald H. Nash
  • There is a bigotry rampant in America, against evangelicals. It is the last respectable bigotry. -- Michael Novak
  • More evangelicals today will visit abortion mills as clients than as ambassadors of Jesus Christ. -- R. C. Sproul, Jr.
  • Most evangelicals have bought into the need for apparent indifference when writing about massively important things. -- John Piper
  • I think I will be doing very well during the election with evangelicals and with Christians. -- Donald Trump
  • Christ at the Checkpoint is primarily a public relations scheme to dissuade American evangelicals from pro-Israel views. -- Mark Tooley
  • You know all the surveys say that evangelicals have the best sex life of any other group. -- Ted Haggard
  • The evangelicals. . . . If all they want is gold Cadillacs and sex and so on, no big problem. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Many evangelicals believe religious freedom, if not religion itself, faces major problems with the government in the future. -- Joel Hunter
  • Today, the greatest challenge facing American evangelicals is not persecution from the world, but seduction by the world. -- C. J. Mahaney
  • I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ. -- Randall Robinson
  • We won with everything! We won with women! I love the women! We won with evangelicals. Like, unbelievable. -- Donald Trump
  • Uganda can greatly benefit from American evangelicals if they separate the Scott Lively extremists from the Rick Warren-type of moderate evangelicals. -- Roger Ross Williams
  • After chasing after [Donald] Trump like a lovelorn high school girl the evangelicals are in no position to ask for anything. Ever. -- Hillary Clinton
  • I am afraid that as evangelicals, we think that a work of art only has value if we reduce it to a tract. -- Francis Schaeffer
  • His [Donald Trump]support is crossing wide swaths of the party. It`s not just the evangelicals. It`s the moderates, as well. -- Katy Tur
  • Young evangelicals are likely to leave their faith because they are not able to articulate their own faith, and many lack a biblical worldview." -- Mark Driscoll
  • As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals. -- Mark Galli
  • I do great with Tea Party, I do great with conservatives I do great with moderates, I do great with evangelicals, I do great with everybody. -- Donald Trump
  • The sad truth is that among today's evangelicals it is not loving and esteeming God but self-love and self-esteem that are presented as the pressing need! -- Dave Hunt
  • I just think the way (for instance) evangelicals talk about God or Jesus, as in "Jesus says" or "the Bible says" points up a lack of honesty. -- Frank Schaeffer
  • We need a critical theory that seeks to change the world by challenging the world - including the world of evangelicals - in its market-driven, all, consuming consumerist idolatries. -- Carl R Trueman
  • I'm a believer who loves Jesus and I work with everybody else whatever their denomination; Catholic, Orthodox, charismatic, main line, evangelicals, anyone who loves Jesus, I'll work with them. -- Bill Bright
  • If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed by everything in the world and by the great majority of evangelicals. You're going to be opposed. -- Paul Washer
  • If you can stitch together that kind of coalition with young people, bringing together conservatives and evangelicals - and I will tell you, in Iowa, we also won Reagan Democrats, working-class voters. -- Ted Cruz
  • Look at evangelicals, you can't even use the word "Christmas" any more, Macy's doesn't use the word "Christmas". With me, it is going to stop, it is going to stop, and they understand that. -- Donald Trump
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