Top 267 Evangelical Quotes & Sayings

J.C. Ryle is an evangelical champion...One of the bravest and best of men.

I'm evangelical.

I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the church on Sunday morning, you still had to be 'saved' on Sunday night. I wanted to be saved, but I did not think you should fake it.

The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.

The God of the modern evangelical rarely astonishes anybody. He manages to stay pretty much with the constitution. Never break our by-laws. He's a very well-behaved God and very denominational and very much like one of us...we ask Him to help us when we're in trouble and look to Him to watch over us when we're asleep. The God of the modern evangelical isn't a God I could have much respect for.

I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian.

The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers.

Donald Trump did question Ted Cruz's evangelical credentials. Remember when Trump said, "How can somebody who lies as much as Ted Cruz lies be an evangelical Christian?"

The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented.

I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.

To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction.

The first lady of Uganda is a devoted evangelical and beloved by the faith community. At an evangelical conference in Argentina, one minister said, "Mama Janet has given us the keys to Africa." She has done that by creating a nation that has embraced a Dominionist form of Christianity that believes that Christians have a God-given right to rule the world.

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.

The therapeutic concerns of the culture too often set the agenda for evangelical preaching.

There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the evangelical world, with its empty worship, its market-driven superficiality, and its trivial thought. It is a breeze blowing toward better, deeper, more honest things. I suspect that it is the Holy Spirit who is blowing, that this is his breeze, and that these leaves that are shaking are the signs of better things to come within an evangelical faith that is thus being reformed. Let us all pray that it is so!

My evangelical phase about Burning Man is well and truly in the past.

Contributing to GOP unity, Pence is a churchgoing evangelical family man.

I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God.

Perhaps what is really being proposed by the Evangelical fundamentalists is a return not to the 1950s family but to the family of biblical days. The Old Testament is clear that this was a strong patriarchal family. Men were permitted several wives and concubines. Children were legitimately conceived by these concubines outside of marriage. . . . Is this the Evangelical's idea of an ideal family?

I am evangelical and believe much in God.

During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.

Charles Finney, the great 19th-century revivalist and evangelical, would have had a hard time preaching a revival in America today. Finney's brand of evangelical fervour, called the 'new measures,' emphasised saving souls and reviving worship by incorporating elements of personal testimony and music into church services.

In certain ways, I think the work in the Evangelical community has been the most interesting and the most promising. Partly because Evangelical congregations may be harder to convince about issues but, on the other hand, are more likely to do something about it.

There were three kinds of evangelical leaders: The dumb or idealistic ones who really believed. The out-and-out charlatans. And the smart ones who still believed – sort of – but knew that the evangelical world was sh*t, but who couldn't figure out any way to earn as good a living anywhere else.

First of all, the evangelical is one who is entirely subservient to the Bible. This is true of every evangelical. He is a man of one book; he starts with it; he submits himself to it; this is his authority.

I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers.

I would say the 1980s, most importantly, there's been a witnessing of the bankruptcy of the liberal philosophy and the anti-moral and amoral philosophies that were so prevalent in the 1960s and '70s, the rebellion of young people, which brought about the drug epidemic in so many to break down the family. Particularly during this decade, the spiritual rebirth. I'm an evangelical, and I've watched the evangelical church here and around the world preaching Christ, the death, burial, resurrection of the savior, receiving more receptivity everywhere, and that growth.

This may sound pernickety but I wouldn't describe myself as an evangelical. These are labels, which I don't think are helpful. If I was going to use any label it would be Christian, and if you push me any further I'd say I'm an Anglican - that's the family of the Church that I belong to. There's nothing wrong with any of the other labels, but if you have any of them I want them all. If you're going to say, 'I'm Catholic, liberal, evangelical...' let's have them all.

Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.

I seem to have three categories of readers. The first is nonbelievers who are glad that I am reading the Bible so they don't have to bother. The second group, which is quite large, is very Biblically literate Jews. And the third, which is also very large, is Christians, most of them evangelical. The evangelical readers and the Jewish readers have generally been very encouraging, because they appreciate someone taking the book they love so seriously, and actually reading it and grappling with it.

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

I'm not an evangelical, because that means that I exclude the Catholics and main-liners, and Orthodox.

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

I would rather commit a sin of commission than a sin of omission, and the evangelical community is exactly the opposite. The evangelical community would rather not do something wrong and the price they're willing to pay for not doing something wrong is they're willing to fail to do something right; they're so afraid of making a mistake. Now the reason they're afraid of making a mistake is they're cowards and our community produces cowards.

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety.

Evangelical Christians are not sincere. It is all about making money.

A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

It's secret that evangelical Christians are critical players in Republican primaries.

If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.

In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!

An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God.

A biblical standard of sexuality is not merely a test of evangelical consistency. It is a test of evangelical authenticity and integrity.

When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic.

The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.

I can be staggeringly evangelical. That's just my personality.

The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.

Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.

I do not expect that the mere fact that I was once an evangelical apologist and now see things differently should itself count as evidence that I must be right. That would be the genetic fallacy. It would be just as erroneous to think that John Rankin must be right in having embraced evangelical Christianity since he had once been an agnostic Unitarian and repudiated it for the Christian faith.

Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.

I'm your full blown charismatic evangelical freak daddy.

Monsters are evangelical creatures for me.

I have also won much evangelical support.

Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine.

Evangelical women are also large consumers of evangelical media and ministries, and their support of these organizations is crucial. Should they shun both Trump and the predominately male evangelical leadership, it may have a ripple effect in these organizations' fundraising abilities and their ministerial efforts.

Graham promoted a white evangelical respectability that wanted to 'put the brakes' on the civil rights movement, and never really accepted women as equal to men. He may have been the country's greatest evangelist, but he was also an apologist for the racist and sexist beliefs pervasive among white evangelical men in 20th-century America.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

It was assumed that you can't touch evangelical Christians. "Oh, they're the Republican Right. Stay away from those people. Don't even try to talk to them." Well, what's interesting is that there were evangelical Christians who were voting for Kerry. There were right-to-lifers who were voting for Kerry. And it's interesting to listen to the reasons why. To ignore that segment of the electorate is moronic. Particularly if you don't know who those people are, or what their concerns are.

The American evangelical movement in Africa does valuable work in helping the poor.