Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Evangelism

Preach the gospel everywhere you go, and, if necessary, use words.
Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) Italian Monk, Founder of the Franciscan Order

The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.
John Newton (1725–1807) English Clergyman, Writer

Evangelism is selling a dream.
Guy Kawasaki (1954–84) American Investor

Few sinners are saved after the first 20 minutes of a sermon.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

But, good my brother, do not, as some ungracious pastors do. Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine himself the primrose path of dalliance treads and wrecks not his own.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

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 (1889–1974) American Journalist, Political Commentator

I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I’d rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way: The eye’s a better pupil and more willing than the ear, fine counsel is confusing, but example’s always clear.
Edgar Guest (1881–1959) English-born American Poet, Radio Personality, TV Personality

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 Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun

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

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun

The object of preaching, is, constantly to remind mankind of what they are constantly forgetting; not to supply the defects of human intelligence, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions; to recall mankind from the bypaths where they turn into that broad path of salvation which all know, but few tread.
Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English Clergyman, Essayist, Wit

The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) French Post-Impressionist Painter

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 (1819–81) American Editor, Novelist

The clergyman is expected to be a kind of human Sunday.
Samuel Butler

Firm, faithful, and devoted, full of energy and zeal, and truth, he labors for his race; he clears their painful way to improvement; he hews down like a giant the prejudices of creed and caste that encumber it. He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious yet; but his is the sternness of the warrior Greatheart, who guards his pilgrim convoy from the onslaught of Apollyon. His is the exaction of the apostle, who speaks but for Christ, when he says, “Whosoever will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.” His is the ambition of the high master-spirit, which aims to fill a place in the first rank of those who are redeemed from the earth—who stand without fault before the throne of God, who share the last mighty victories of the Lamb, who are called, and chosen, and faithful.
Charlotte Bronte (1816–1855) English Novelist, Poet

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) Irish-born British Academic, Author, Literary Scholar

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

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 (1865–1946) American-British Essayist, Bibliophile

He preaches well that lives well.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist

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

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 (1483–1546) German Protestant Theologian

Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
Martin Luther (1483–1546) German Protestant Theologian

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.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–99) German Philosopher, Physicist

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

Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you; say to the priests that you know God better than all of them together do, and that between God and His law you have no need of any intermediary. The people will understand you, and repeat with you: We believe in God the Father, who is Intelligence and Love, Creator and Teacher of Humanity. And in this saying you and the People will conquer.
Giuseppe Mazzini (1805–72) Italian Patriot, Political Leader

A minister asked a little boy how to get to the Post Office. After the little boy told him, the minister said, Why don’t you come to church tonight? I’m giving instructions on how to get to heaven. After thinking a minute, the boy replied, I don’t think so. You don’t even know how to get to the Post Office.
Unknown

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than fifty preaching it.
Knute Rockne (1888–1931) American College Football Coach

God is definitely out of the closet.
Marianne Williamson (b.1952) American Activist, Author, Lecturer

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