Evangelism Quotes

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Walter Lippmann

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

Richard Cecil

Evangelism is selling a dream.

Guy Kawasaki

There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.

Proverb

If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice.

Bowen Baxter

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

Richard Baxter

Being an extrovert isn't essential to evangelism--obedience and love are.

Rebecca M. Pippert

God is definitely out of the closet.

Marianne Williamson

Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently motivated but equally fearful, become accomplices in maintaining a clerical and irrelevant Church. Sacralizing employees and property, this Church becomes progressively more blind to the possibilities of Sacralizing person and community.

Ivan Illich

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

Mother Theresa

As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones.

Mother Theresa

Preach the gospel everywhere you go, and, if necessary, use words.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms. Confusion here is fatal.

J. I. Packer

To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.

John Selden

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

Martin Luther

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings be bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient stream.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Mark Twain