A Quote by Andrew Greeley

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

Andrew Greeley

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Andrew Greeley
American - Novelist
Born: February 5, 1928

The greatest barrier to evangelization today is bad example....Our strategy of evangelization must be based upon sanctity, upon our enthusiastic response to Christ's universal call to holiness.

John Foley

Evangelization through the Eucharist, in the Eucharist, and from the Eucharist - these are three inseparable aspects of how the Church lives the mystery of Christ and fulfills her mission of communicating it to all people.... In addition to the preaching of the message, the consummation of evangelization consists in the building up of the Church, which has no real existence without the sacramental life culminating in the Blessed Eucharist

Pope John Paul II

Evangelization does not consist in proselytizing, for proselytizing is a caricature of evangelization, but rather evangelizing entails attracting by our witness those who are far off, it means humbly drawing near to those who feel distant from God in the Church, drawing near to those who feel judged and condemned outright by those who consider themselves to be perfect and pure.

Pope Francis

I think there is a tremendous need for evangelization.

Reinhard Bonnke

It is to be kept in mind that the generations of men do not wait for the convenience of the church in respect to their evangelization. Men are born and die whether or not Christians are ready to give them the Gospel. And hence, if the church of any generation does not evangelize the heathen of that generation, those heathen will never be evangelized at all. It is always true in the work of evangelization that the present can never anticipate the future, and that the future can never replace the past. What is to be done in soul saving must be done by that generation.

J. Oswald Sanders

Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization.

Robert Barron

The hope is that papal calls for a New Pentecost, which go back to St. John XXIII, and papal calls for a New Evangelization, which go back to Vatican II and especially to St. John Paul II, can come together. Pope Francis' vision is to bring together the reality of a New Pentecost with the urgency of a New Evangelization.

Ralph Martin

The new evangelization ... begins in the confessional.

Pope Benedict XVI

Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization

Pope Francis

Evangelization is leading people to Jesus, not ourselves.

Paul George

The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world.

Oswald J. Smith

The true goal of Christian unity is world evangelization.

David Shibley

The GREATEST HINDRANCES to the evangelization of the world are those within the Church.

John Mott

People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so good to pagans, too. High-pressure evangelization strikes me as an attempt to deprive people of their freedom of choice.

Andrew Greeley

Love is the greatest form of evangelization because it makes an invisible God visible.