Evangelicalism's Quotes

#1. Contrary to Western evangelicalism's obsession with the individual, discipleship is and always was a group project. No one in the New Testament followed independent of other followers. - Steve Murrell, Wikichurch

Ed Stetzer

#2. As far as design theorists are concerned, theistic evolution is American evangelicalism's ill-conceived accommodation to Darwinism .

William A. Dembski

#3. Every (Christian) generation has a choice: to go out like [King] Saul or to go out like Paul.

Russell D. Moore

#4. Each person begins life with a head start in some areas and a handicap in other areas.

Daniel Lapin

#5. To put it most simply, the evangelical ethos is activistic, populist, pragmatic, and utilitarian. It allows little space for broader or deeper intellectual effort because it is dominated by the urgencies of the moment.

Mark A. Noll

#6. I don't think we've got the gospel right yet. What does it mean to be 'saved'? When I read the Bible, I don't see it meaning, 'I'm going to heaven after I die.' Before modern evangelicalism nobody accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior, or walked down an aisle, or said the sinner's prayer.

Brian D. McLaren

#7. One of the problems with evangelicalism is that it has allowed itself to be married to the Republican party ... Jesus is not a Republican. Nor is he a Democrat.

Tony Campolo

#8. C'mon, sweetie, you can say it. (Delphine)
(She moved his mouth playfully with her hands.)
You don't suck, Delphine. I ... you. C'mon, Jericho. I only bite in the bedroom. You can do this. I know you're not really mute. (Delphine)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. There are so many ways to exit towards the Light, but with my luck, I'd be the one electrocuted by Diwali lights. Or the one who cracks her head falling off a footstool. I'd still be a jester, leaving the audience with a stitch in their sides.

Amruta Patil

#10. Evangelicalism has taken the Extrovert Ideal to its logical extreme ... If you don't love Jesus out loud, then it must not be real love. It's not enough to forge your own spiritual connection to the divine; it must be displayed publicly.

Susan Cain

#11. Descriptions all fall flat and tame unless the Holy Ghost fills them with life and power

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Os Guinness

#13. The people of the FBI sacrifice much for their country, and I am proud to lead this organization of dedicated agents, analysts, and professional staff.

James Comey

#14. This is a paradox of Whitefield's legacy: evangelicalism draws people of different churches while dividing those within the same denomination.

Melanie Ross

#15. Serving in obscurity can do more to shape a future leader than a dozen years of combing evangelicalism for the perfect position.

Dave Harvey

#16. I've always liked using flutes and clarinets. Any time I can use those, I'm really happy.

A.C. Newman

#17. There is no use of Evangelicalism seeming to get larger and larger, if at the same time appreciable parts of Evangelicalism are getting soft at that which is the central core, namely the Scriptures.

Francis Schaeffer

#18. The hallmark of an authentic evangelicalism is not the uncritical repetition of old traditions but the willingness to submit every tradition, however ancient, to fresh biblical scrutiny and, if necessary, reform.

John Stott

#19. When I'm preforming a lot I'm aching to get back in the studio but I love live performance. I love trying to think on my feet and be spontaneous. I like doing that in a live show and I do the same thing in the studio.

Joel Plaskett

#20. Evangelicalism is like my religious mother tongue. I revert to it whenever I'm angry or excited or surrounded by other people who understand what I'm saying. And it's the language in which I most often hear God's voice on the rare occasion that it rises above the noise.

Rachel Held Evans

#21. Bryony began laughing, with a great deal of bitterness to be sure, but still, laughter. That had always been her great gift and her besetting sin, that even in the darkest and most somber times, she had the urge to laugh.

T. Kingfisher

#22. Basically my relationship with evangelicalism is like a Taylor Swift song set to repeat.

Rachel Held Evans

#23. Being that 'reason is not antithetical to faith' (Woods) and that Pentecost established the Reality of super-nature (Lewis) and that 'theology matters' (Wimber), then 'empowered evangelicalism' (Nathan) is the natural expression of discipleship."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#24. The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#25. This is evangelicalism today: sensual, carnal, unconverted people that have just enough deceptive religion to drive them straight into Hell! Are you that kind of person? Or do you have new affections?

Paul Washer

#26. A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#27. Once torched by truth, a little thing like faith is easy.

Leif Enger

#28. My paintings don't simply represent what I see; they present viewers with what I want them to see.

Ken Danby

#29. I am not nor have I ever been a 'wild-eyed' charismatic, but rather an 'empowered evangelical' (Nathan)".

~R. Alan Woods [2006]

R. Alan Woods

#30. Moving from unbelief, to Evangelicalism, and finally home to the Catholic Church, Professor Holly Ordway reveals how a gifted mind, longing for transcendence, can only appropriate it if it is wholly given by the reach and power of God's grace.

Francis J. Beckwith

#31. To give the whole store away to match what this year's market says the unchurched want is to have the people who know least about the faith determine most about its expression.

Martin E. Marty

#32. There's no cap on success. The jury stays out till you take your last breath.

Judy Sheindlin

#33. The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

R.C. Sproul

#34. As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality ... for religious liberals and many evangelicals.

Mark Galli

#35. Whenever we are tempted to despair about the shape of American Christianity, we should remember that Jesus never promised the triumph of the American church. He promised the triumph of the church.

Russell D. Moore

#36. There is little taste for 'high culture' especially in Evangelicalism, where the tendency has long been toward translation - making things accessible to the largest number of people.

James Davison Hunter

#37. One thing we do well within evangelicalism is in thinking of Jesus as our friend. But He is also our King.

Stephen Nichols

#38. He paused just long enough to make them feel they ought to say something, and then interrupted.

Douglas Adams

#39. Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

Sarah Dessen

#40. The kingdom of God is not in words. Words are only incidental and can never be fundamental. When evangelicalism ceased to emphasize fundamental meanings and began emphasizing fundamental words, and shifted from meaning to words and from power to words, they began to go down hill.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#41. The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

Linus Torvalds

#42. I see the time coming when all the holy men whose eyes have been opened by the Spirit will desert worldly Evangelicalism, one by one.

A.W. Tozer

#43. The proper worldview context for interpreting the Bible is not evangelicalism, Catholicism, the Protestant Reformation, the Puritans - or even the modern world. The proper context for interpreting the Bible is the context in which it was written - that of the ancient biblical writers.

Michael S. Heiser

#44. Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy.

Michael Horton