Evangelism Quotes

It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. People complain that they do not know how to take hold of this matter. Why, the reason is plain enough; they have never studied it. They have never taken the proper pains to qualify themselves for the work. If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian.

Charles Finney

The worst behaved students turn out to be the most pious preachers.

Proverb

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

Criss Jami

Preaching is heady wine. It is pleasant to tell people where they get off.

Sir Arnold Lunn

I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.

Criss Jami

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

Hosea Ballou

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.

Sir Isaac Newton

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.

Knute Rockne

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back.

Harvey Cox

If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.

George F. Pentecost

To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.

G. Campbell Morgan

Evangelism is the spontaneous overflow of a glad and free heart in Jesus Christ.

Robert Munger

In soliciting donations from his flock, a preacher may promise eternal life in a celestial city whose streets are paved with gold, and that's none of the law's business. But if he promises an annual free stay in a luxury hotel on Earth, he'd better have the rooms available.

Charlotte Observer

Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.

D. T. Niles

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

Sydney Smith

When it's foggy in the pulpit it's cloudy in the pew.

Cavett Robert

That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The first missionaries, good men imbued with the narrowness of their age, branded us as pagans and devil-worshipers, and demanded of us that we abjure our false gods before bowing the knee at their sacred altar.

Charles Eastman