Top 1200 Preaching The Gospel Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Let me just tell you this, my aim in life is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, that's all I care about.

We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.

If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart

The gospel funk soul era, that's what I'm obsessed with - pretty much all the '70s through early '80s.

I would say when I was 9 or 10 I started doing gospel choir, and I was with them for about two years.

Live in such a way that unless God shows up what you're attempting to do is bound to fail. This is the nature of the Gospel.

The deepest cry of the human heart is to be loved without condition, no matter what. The gospel of grace announces that you are.

Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily.

I would like to do a story where the country found itself a presidential candidate who actually will get elected preaching traditional values and then sets out to enforce them, where it actually comes down to the fact that reality as we know it may not be as etched in stone as we tell ourselves it is.

The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.

Dear young people, put your talents at the service of the Gospel, with creativity and boundless charity.

The Gospel is like a caged lion. It does not need to be defended, it just needs to be let out of its cage.

Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.

There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.

I've made so many mistakes, so many corrections. I'm so far from perfect so many imperfections. But I'm a go getta I get up and go get it, so if you preaching prosperity, i wanna hit it.

Total immersion in and saturation with the Savior's gospel are essential steps in the process of being born again.

Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen.

While conscious of the challenges you face, I encourage you to follow faithfully in the footsteps of your founders, and to stir into flame the charisms and apostolic zeal which you have inherited from them, confident that Christ will continue to work with you and to confirm your preaching with signs of his presence and power.

I think I could do better in my approach to application. I think I could do better in preaching practical sermons.

Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.

Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.

I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric.

Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.

When you touch the pain of the world as real, there is a solidarity, an engagement with the Gospel, a living faith that blossoms forth.

Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it’s needed most?

The gospel frees you from the pressure of having to fix people: your worth is located in Christ, not in their transformation.

Over 100,000 people attend my shows each season and no one can say they haven't heard the Gospel.

When we realize what we were before Christ and what we deserved in that state, it further magnifies the enormity of the gospel for us.

The great hope, and for the propagating and advancing the gospel of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world

We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel!

There is no true believing or trusting to the report of the gospel, but what is the effect of the working of a divine power on the soul for that end.

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

There is no need to be longwinded as a pastor, but there is a difference between being longwinded and preaching for a long time. Preachers should be conscious of time because God does everything in decency and order; nonetheless, God's word is not on the clock!

The gospel is one of harmony, unity, and agreement. It must be presented in love, and with glad tidings, by those who are calm.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is that penetrating light which shines through the darkness of our lives.

We don't like preaching, we don't like love songs, we don't like fun songs. We just like the dark side.

I have boxes of gospel LPs and 78s. The Davis Sisters, the Soul Stirrers, the Pilgrim Travellers. I love all that.

There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh.

I have finally decided to write my book on the spiritual life. I mean to put down as simply as possible the sort of ascetical or mystical teaching that I have been living and preaching so long. I call it 'Le Milieu Divin,' but I am being careful to include nothing esoteric and the minimum of explicit philosophy.

The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, but the victory of our God.

The reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they had dead men preaching to them. O that the Lord may quicken and revive them! How can dead men beget living children?

The gospel of Jesus Christ must be defended in every generation. It is always the center of attack by the forces of evil.

I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that; otherwise, you end up preaching down. You need to listen not so much to the audience but to the story itself.

Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.

The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.

... we need to reclaim the "goodnewness" of the gospel, and the best place to start is to rediscover the good news ourselves.

When love could teach a monarch to be wise, And gospel-light first dawn'd from Bullen's eyes.

In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.

It is the attitude of some leaders of God's people; they continually scold others, hurl reproaches at them, tell them to be quiet. ... 'Madam, take your crying child out of the church as I am preaching.' As if the cries of a child were not a sublime homily.

When someone comes along later and tries to preach the Gospel to them because they're living in the world, they won't listen.

I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.

I started listening to gospel when I was a little boy and my grandmother used to rock me on her lap.

May you constantly nourish your testimonies of the gospel that they will be a protection to you against the buffetings of the adversary.

The depth, width, ferocity, and immensity of God is seen most spectacularly in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

All would wish to be saved and to enjoy the glory of paradise; but to gain heaven, it is necessary to walk in the straight road that leads to eternal bliss. This road is the observance of the divine commandments. Hence, in his preaching, the Baptist exclaimed: Make straight the way of the Lord.

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.

. . . Practice teaching catechism and preaching. Missionaries must apply themselves to these tasks and although they do not accomplish them as successfully as others do, according to the opinion of men, it must be enough for them that they are doing the Will of God and perhaps producing more real fruit.

The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.

Technology has changed how people communicate, how people relate, the speed at which this takes place. To ignore that, in the name of preaching the Word, is to forget that we're to preach the Word to people.