Quotes about Outreach

Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.

The church exists for the sake of those outside it.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.

The deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.

No life of faith can be lived privately. There must be overflow into the lives of others.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

I don't want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

When we say, 'We're here for you,' we mean it to this point - everything we do, everything we preach, every broadcast we come on, everywhere we minister, everything we say and do is prayed, engineered, designed to minister to the people.

Evangelism is when the Gospel, which is good news, is preached or presented to all people.

Whenever my dad wasn't working, he'd take me along to pass out biblical tracts on street corners or in visits to the local prison.