Quotes about Proclamation
This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops.
— Pope John Paul II
We don't fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not converted; we fail only if we don't faithfully tell the gospel at all. Evangelism itself isn't converting people; it's telling them that they need to be converted and telling them how they can be.
— Mark Dever
What changes need to happen in your life to enjoy Jesus more thoroughly, worship him more passionately, follow him more closely, serve him more diligently, trust him more fully, and proclaim him more boldly?
— Mark Driscoll
They had witnessed the proclamation of the law in awful
— Ellen White
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
May God make his Word find a hearing in all the world.
— Eric Metaxas
For Sinai consisted of both a divine proclamation and a human perception. It was a moment in which God was not alone.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
The day will come … when people will once more be called to speak the word of God in such a way that the world is changed and renewed. It will be in a new language, perhaps quite nonreligious language, but liberating and redeeming like Jesus's language, so that people will be alarmed, and yet overcome by its power—the language of a new righteousness and truth, a language proclaiming that God makes peace with humankind and that God's kingdom is drawing near.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Cheap grace means grace as a doctrine, a principle, a system. It means forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth, the love of God taught as the Christian "conception" of God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A shaking of heads, perhaps even an evil laugh, must go through our old, smart, experienced, self-assured world, when it hears the call of salvation of believing Christians: "For a child has been born for us, a son given to us."5 Dietrich Bonhoeffer
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it's more than having a nice life.
— David Platt
Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.
— Luis Palau