Evangelism Apologetics Quotes

#1. We must never distinguish apologetics and evangelism too neatly. But in broad terms, evangelism is the sharing of the good news, and it addresses the needs and desires of those who know they are in a bad situation.

Os Guinness

#2. Though argument does not create conviction, the lack of it destroys belief.

Alister E. McGrath

#3. In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years is that people will give people in politics a lot of rope if they just take responsibility.

Susan Estrich

#4. Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.

Criss Jami

#5. Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.

Thomas Carlyle

#6. The (Bible) story is much more powerful as Truth than as metaphor.

John Kasich

#7. Pastors are appointed by God to help their people see that the church walks in the light and all others in darkness. We, the "in Christ" people, are the true culture (John 14:6). We say this without arrogance, but with a sense of surprise.

Owen Strachan

#8. I know that I know nothing.

Ashfaq Ahmed

#9. The church tastes true delight, and the world only samples a counterfeit. Pastors cannot help but pull off the mask of worldly thinking and harmful societal developments as they preach and teach and disciple.

Owen Strachan

#10. In today's ambiguous world, character means despotism, tyranny, absolute intolerance. At last it is time to admire a lack of character, inner weakness. Our epoch is that of noble doubts, blessed uncertainty, sacred hypersensitivity, divine wishy-washiness.

Tadeusz Konwicki

#11. Everyone has played video games at some point these days, and video games are fun.

PewDiePie

#12. We need to do whatever it takes to get our children together and pay attention to them, because that's our future. What's in the hearts and minds of our children is what's in our future.

Louis Gossett Jr.

#13. If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly.

Carlos Castaneda

#14. If I were a blind man and were told by you that you possess a faculty called sight, I should be unreasonable if I railed at you as a conceited enthusiast.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#15. To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.

Criss Jami

#16. Disgust at idols strengthened his love for idolaters, and the man who once held Gentile neighbors at a distance now listened to their problems, fears, and temptations.

John Charles Pollock

#17. Fear enters the room and sits down in a chair and with a polite smile asks to open negotiations.

John Scalzi

#18. Cop-out excuses and catch-phrase dismissals can only work so long before the holes in the religious argument cannot be ignored any longer.

Steve Dustcircle

#19. Ancient wisdom collides with modern crises, equipping believers to image Christ in a world entranced with salvific knock-offs.

Owen Strachan

#20. Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

Nancy Gibbs

#21. If Christianity is true, then every argument will, if pursued to the end, lead to Jesus.

John Mark Reynolds

#22. Erasmus's Bible-saturated mind. His was a mind too broad for fundamentalism, which rejects reason, and too honest for intellectualism, which rejects revelation.

John Mark Reynolds

#23. apologetics is pre-evangelism in that it addresses those who do not realize they are in a bad situation, and therefore do not see the gospel as the good news that it is.

Os Guinness

#24. From the beginning, each human embryo has its own unique genetic identity.

Robert Casey

#25. A weak and dying Messiah is the very antithesis of a man-made cure.

Norman L. Geisler

#26. It helps to not confuse theological philosophers with evangelists. There is a difference but objectively neither better than the other: an evangelist's mission is to convert; a theological philosopher's mission is to build an understanding of a position.

Criss Jami

#27. You are the enemy and a vessel through which the cure flows - if Christ lives in you, then you are an embodiment of the very shot this hostile and crying world needs as it, in every waking moment, struggles belligerently to resist.

Criss Jami

#28. We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#29. Pastors must practice a two-fold program of cultural engagement: deconstruction and demystification of cultural idols, and reconstruction and re-enchantment of a gospel-shaped worldview.

Timothy Keller

#30. The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.

Leslie Stephen

#31. Their shadows sported over the hills like cats, chasing the sunlight over sparkling granite and dull slate, the bright dry grass and the small hidden gleams of water.

Pamela Dean

#32. Apologetics is about persuading people that there is a door to another world - a door that perhaps they never realized existed. Evangelism is about helping people to open that door and enter into the new world that lies beyond.

Alister E. McGrath

#33. God will save whomever He chooses to save. The Christian should proselytize not because he thinks he can change everybody; he should proselytize because the Gospel being shared is the ultimate act of love: because he thinks he can love everybody.

Criss Jami