Quotes about Evangelism

When you are giving people the gospel, you are giving them something to believe, and you have to set the stage for that. You don't just drive up and dump the truck and drive off.

Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

One of my biggest fears - maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian - is that I have a hard time going up to a stranger and talking to them about Jesus.

Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.

Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about it

I Love Jesus Christ and that is why I am on fire with the desire to give Him souls, first of all my own, and then an incalculable number of others.

The Christian family is missionary: it announces the love of God to the world.

We need to love people with our deeds AND our words because sharing the Good News is a process, not just an event.

Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus' name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.

That depth at which he goes in me determines how far he goes out of me. It's a personal encounter. It's not our commitment to healing. It's not our commitment to evangelism. It's not our commitment to any of these things. It's our commitment to the person, to live faithfully with a person.

Leading sinners to salvation en masse - or one by one - it is all the same. I eat it. I sleep it. I dream it. I speak it. I write it. I pray it. I weep it. I laugh it.