Top 1200 Preaching The Gospel Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts; and if people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

The one and only Gospel waits to be proclaimed by everyone together, in love and reciprocal esteem.

58% of the American public are with us. We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing, if all of the 58% started singing, this war would end.

If the gospel is only for the learned, how few there are of us who could have any use for it.

After all that has been said, the greatest and most important duty is to preach the Gospel

How so? Briefly, apart from the gospel and outside of Christ, the law is my enemy and condemns me. Why? Because God is my enemy and condemns me. But with the gospel and in Christ, united to him by faith, the law is no longer my enemy but my friend. Why? Because now God is no longer my enemy but my friend, and the law, his will—the law in its moral core, as reflective of his character and of concerns eternally inherent in his own person and so of what pleases him—is now my friendly guide for life in fellowship with God.

When the Spirit is present, people are not offended when you share your feelings about the gospel.

We only fully grasp the gospel when we understand, as Paul did, that we are the worst sinner we know

The falsetto stuff, it must be a reaction to the black gospel singers that I really enjoy listening to.

If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.

Bonhoeffer's emphasis on the deep this-worldliness of Christianity does not lead to de-escahtologizing the gospel.

Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?

Only the #? gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage.

Were it not for the work of the Holy Spirit there would be no gospel, no faith, no church, no Christianity in the world at all.

With a strong testimony of the Savior and His restored gospel, you have limitless opportunities to shine.

That's why gospel will never be pop music - it's not something that'd be everyone's cup of tea.

The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel

The true convert does not receive the gospel as an addition to his previous life, but in exchange for it.

We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself.

If you use language that divides people and makes people who agree with you really stoked and people who disagree with you disengaged then you're preaching to a choir, and you've lost any kind of relativity across the spectrum. So it's important to be subtle and understand that there's a lot more you can learn.

We are debtors to every man to give him the gospel in the same measure in which we have received it.

There are a thousand needs in the world, and none of them compares to the global need for the gospel.

The heart of the gospel is that you don't know Jesus without the witness of the church. It's always mediated.

I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ... if I can't take him with me, I don't want to go.

It is the duty of those who are entrusted with the Gospel to endeavor to make it known among all nations.

Preaching is compelling to young secular adults ... - not if preachers use video clips from their favorite movies and dress informally and sound sophisticated, - but if the preachers understand their hearts and culture so well that listeners feel the force of the sermon's reasoning, even if in the end they don't agree with it.

Personal testimony of the gospel and the Church is the most important thing you can earn in this life.

Gospel isn't some ditty to make people enjoy their afternoon - it's communicating with God.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel.

My church is the world! I want to bring the gospel to as broad and as interesting an audience as possible.

We're trying to create content that is very culturally forward without compromising the push of the gospel.

If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.

Religious people use 10% more pornography than secular people. The biggest consumers of pornography are Utah and Mississippi. All that religious preaching does no good.

The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint.

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

One of my great goals in life is to live long enough to where I am in the pulpit, preaching my heart out, and I die on the spot, my chin hits the pulpit - boom! - and I'm down and out. What a way to die!

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

Let me tell you something: being broke ain't going to make nobody come to the Gospel.

The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.

The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.

The gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul

The purpose of the gospel is to transform common creatures into celestial citizens, and that requires change.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is the brightest light and the only hope for this darkened world.

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

By growing up in Alabama, I had a melting pot of the whole pie: R&B, gospel, country.

The goal of the gospel is to produce a type of people consumed with passion for God an love for others.

The gospel frees us to confess our sins without fear of condemnation.

The Spirit is as operative today in communicating the gospel to all who seek the truth as it was on the day of Pentecost anciently.

Our job in gospel is not going away. It's a sustainable genre. It sells - without question.

The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling... How can you expect the world to believe in you and respect your preaching of democracy when you yourself treat your colored brothers as you do?

The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.

Well, the first band was at nine, and I was on the road when I was 12 with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers.

When all is said and done, the home is the ideal forum for teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.

Just because we believe the gospel is a life-and-death matter doesn't mean we have to act as if we're dead.

The church meets to imagine what our lives can be like if the gospel were true.

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.