Evangelism Quotes

“Finally, the work of the minister tended to be judged by his success in a single area - the saving of souls in measurable numbers. The local minister was judged either by his charismatic powers or by his ability to prepare his congregation for the preaching of some itinerant ministerial charmer who would really awaken its members. The 'star' system prevailed in religion before it reached the theater. As the evangelical impulse became more widespread and more dominant, the selection and training of ministers was increasingly shaped by the revivalist criterion of ministerial merit. The Puritan ideal of the minister as an intellectual and educational leader was steadily weakened in the face of the evangelical ideal of the minister as a popular crusader and exhorter. Theological education itself became more instrumental. Simple dogmatic formulations were considered sufficient. In considerable measure the churches withdrew from intellectual encounters with the secular world, gave up the idea that religion is a part of the whole life of intellectual experience, and often abandoned the field of rational studies on the assumption that they were the natural province of science alone. By 1853 an outstanding clergyman complained that there was 'an impression, somewhat general, that an intellectual clergyman is deficient in piety, and that an eminently pious minister is deficient in intellect.”
― Richard Hofstadter, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

“Heart language is logic set on fire.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

“I was born for a controversial world, and I cannot escape my destiny. John Quincy Adams”
― Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life

“Have you heard of the Children of Mae?”
“The cult?” She knew of a religious group whose members went door to door, preaching the benefits of self-discipline—abstinence, celibacy or monogamy, vegetarianism—pretty much anything fun was prohibited. They had never come to Vesper’s house because her father was a butcher and probably pretty low on their list of possible converts.”
― Colleen Chen, Dysmorphic Kingdom

“ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We’re a life cult. Rock ’n’ roll is a life force, and it’s joy as an act of defiance.”
― Bono

“There is nothing more common than for people who want to talk about God to lose interest in the people they are talking to.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers

“We must help men and women see the epic in the ordinary details of life.”
― Matt Chandler, Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church

“May we be thunder in our doctrine and lighten in out conversations.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

“The best way to preach men to Christ is to preach Christ to men.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

“Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.”
― Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

“We may rifle the treasures of antiquity and make the heathen contribute to the gospel even as Hiram of Tyre served under Solomon's direction for the building of the Temple.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

“The author, at the time a Carter speechwriter in the 1980 campaign, showed visible distress at his boss's performance and was warned by a friend in the traveling press, lest he become the story.”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“Before we can influence our culture, our visions must die.”
― Mark Sayers, Facing Leviathan: Leadership, Influence, and Creating in a Cultural Storm

“Jesus didn't debase the holy into the secular; He infused the secular with the holy.”
― Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers

“In the earliest days of World War II when London was undergoing the blitz but the United States had not yet been drawn into the hostilities, the US ambassador walked the streets during the hottest of the bombing and ask people at every level of British society what he could do to help. What a picture of our role as ambassadors of Christ's coming Kingdom!”
― Lynne Olson, Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour

“Christ's mighty prayers are as vocal to God as His daily services. He witnesses under all circumstances.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

“Remember that you need much teaching, much upholding, much grace, and much humility, if your witnessing is to be to your Master's glory.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

“We will go no place where we cannot take our Master with us. While others take their liberty to sin, We will not renounce our liberty to rebuke and confront them.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

“If I were a blind man and were told by you that you possess a faculty called sight, I should be unreasonable if I railed at you as a conceited enthusiast.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

“We gonna sing some more for you in a minute-tuh, but we want to share with you that our ministry is an expensive one, and a difficult one, and-duh, we need ever one of you out there to make sacrifices to help this ministry, and-duh, spread God's word-duh. It was all so phony.”
― Becky Crabtree

“We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.”
― C.S. Lewis

“The law repels, the gospel attracts. The law shows the distance which there is between God and man; the gospel bridges that awful chasm, and brings the sinner across it.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

“The author attributes part of the Carter-Reagan divide to their respective attitudes toward the city from which they governed. Carter was deeply suspicious of its coziness. Reagan intended to enjoy his temporary home even while delivering it from its reigning ideology.”
― Chris Matthews, Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

“No sermon I have heard or read touched my heart with half the force of this puppet show. John Quincy Adams”
― Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life

“The author points out that, with life in provincial Washington difficult for those not of independent means, Adams and his wife undervalued the social connections that others found vital. They often made an impression as distant and prideful.”
― Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life

“It is the doom of the Christian church to be always distracted with controversy. John Quincy Adams”
― Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life

“The sad reality is that there are many Christians who are “saved”, “heaven bound,” and “hell proofed” who do not care about the souls of the lost. What a beautiful contrast our Lord Jesus Christ is! His passion for souls brought Him from Heaven to earth, His Passion for souls motivated His compassionate activity. His passion for souls pressed Him to a rough cross where He surrendered His life to save the lost.”
― John Willis Zumwalt

“The Church should spend less time trying to be "relevant", which can come across as disingenuous, and more time trying to align their hearts to the authentic gospel message.”
― Matt Chandler, Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church

“Because children already have a realization of their weakness, is this not the best opportunity to apply the gospel to their hearts?”
― Matt Chandler, Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church

“Moses challenged parents both to teach the faith diligently and to maximize normal encounters or ongoing discussion.”
― Matt Chandler, Creature of the Word: The Jesus-Centered Church