Top 92 Evangelist Quotes
#1. EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.
Ambrose Bierce
#2. For me, I've never been too concerned of what people think of me, so now as the youngest Baldwin brother in Hollywood making movies while simultaneously being a charismatic evangelical born again Christian who's an evangelist - that's a pretty crazy combination.
Stephen Baldwin
#3. A true evangelist is almost as great a rarity as a true pastor. Alas! Alas! How rare are both! The two are closely connected. The evangelist gathers the sheep; the pastor feeds and cares for them. The work of each lies very near the heart of Christ- [Who Is] The Divine Evangelist and Pastor ...
Charles Henry Mackintosh
#4. The effective evangelist must engage not only at the level of the answers, but also at the level of the questions themselves.13
Russell D. Moore
#5. And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
Luke The Evangelist
#6. Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he falls back upon his fundamentals.
H.L. Mencken
#8. Do not become a disciple of one who praises himself, in case you learn pride instead of humility.
Mark The Evangelist
#9. A believer is an evangelist primarily by who he is and how he lives-not by what he says. What he says is important; but unless his speaking tallies with what he is and does, he had better keep quiet.
Joseph Sittler
#10. Give honour unto Luke Evangelist; For he it was (the aged legends say) Who first taught Art to fold her hands and pray.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
#11. God called me many years ago to be an evangelist, and I have never regretted His leading. I love the crusades, meeting people from every country and culture all over the world. My life has been blessed by friends from every land, and challenges from every corner.
Billy Graham
#12. I carry a bullet in my breast pocket. Once, a crazy evangelist threw a bible at me, which would have gone through my heart if it wasn't for the bullet.
Woody Allen
#13. An evangelist is like a newscaster on television or a journalist writing for a newspaper ... except that the evangelist's mission is to tell the Good News that never changes.
Billy Graham
#14. When life gets you down, remember God's RESUME in your life" - Evangelist Naomi Antwi
Naomi Mensah Antwi
#15. The laborious pastor, the fervent minister, the ardent evangelist, the faithful teacher, the powerful intercessor, can all trace the birth of their zeal to the sufferings they endured through sin, and the knowledge they thereby attained of its evil nature.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#16. I'm an evangelist for the idea of being ultrafit if you want to be the best of breed. Getting into world-class physical condition is one of the smartest moves you can make.
Robin S. Sharma
#17. My granddad was an evangelist, and my grandma, she was as tough as nails. She watched 'American Bandstand' every day when she was in her 80s, 90s. She loved rock music. I never had anyone in my family that was anti-rock n' roll.
Alice Cooper
#18. And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
Luke The Evangelist
#19. We are unprofitable servants, we have done what we were obliged to do.
Luke The Evangelist
#20. If you call them a sin against nature again, I will end you." Ethan's hand was on his dagger's hilt. "Look who's a born-again Guardian evangelist now." Connor laughed. "What's up with that?" A blush slid up Ethan's neck. "Nothing. They're our allies. That's all." "Sure it is." Conner said.
Andrea Cremer
#21. It is not without reason that the Evangelist is careful to tell us the smallest details. For these two disciples signify two peoples, the Jews [by John] and the Gentiles [by Peter].
Thomas Aquinas
#22. When I joined Google, they asked me what title I wanted. I said, 'What about archduke?' They said, 'Well, that didn't meet our nomenclature. Why don't you be our Chief Internet Evangelist?' This was in 2005.
Vint Cerf
#24. The Bank [of Scotland] had tried to sell itself to a company run by TV evangelist Pat Robertson. That deal fell through, perhaps because it transpired that Mr Robertson believed that Scotland was 'a dark land' where 'homosexuals ruled the roost'.
Alistair Darling
#25. During all my years as an evangelist,
my message has always been the Gospel of Christ.
It is not a Western religion, nor is it a message of one culture or political system . , .it is a message of life and hope for all the world.
Billy Graham
#26. Given that my title at Google is Chief Internet Evangelist, I feel like there is this great challenge before me because we have three billion users, and there are seven billion people in the world.
Vint Cerf
#28. And they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by the signs that attended it.
Mark The Evangelist
#29. Saint Ignatius was a convert and disciple of S. John the Evangelist. He was appointed by S. Peter to succeed Evodius in the see of Antioch, and he continued in his bishopric full forty years.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#30. Lift up your heads, ye people,
lift up your faces, too,
open your mouths to sing His praise,
and the rain will fall on you.
Aimee Semple McPherson
#31. We might put it this way: every group already has, in one sense, a rule of life - its values and ways of doing things. The challenge is to identify and to authenticate what they are. A group can become a truer expression of community when it is able to express its own tacit rule.
The Society Of Saint John The Evangelist
#33. 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
#35. Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman.
H.L. Mencken
#36. Before one can walk as Christ walked,
and talk as He talked,
he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
A.A. Allen
#37. The evangelist is the world's hopeless romantic, and just like a hopeless romantic, he must hope for the miracle of God more than the romance itself.
Criss Jami
#38. The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#39. I sound like an evangelist or something.
David Plotz
#40. Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.
Pat Conroy
#41. No clergyman however brilliant, no evangelist no matter how eloquent or compelling, can bring about the revival we need. Only the Holy Spirit can do this.
Billy Graham
#42. Evangelism is more than simply encouraging decisions for Christ. It is urging people to become disciples - followers - of Jesus Christ. As such, the evangelist has a responsibility to make growth in discipleship possible for those who come to faith under his ministry.
Billy Graham
#43. Apple is not sold with advertising despite the long series of clever advertisements produced for the company over the years. It is sold with evangelism, one person talking to another. The advertising reinforces the evangelist message.
Steve Hayden
#44. Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.
Luke The Evangelist
#45. A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.
Leonard Ravenhill
#46. Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.
Nina Simone
#47. While life lasts, I am an evangelist.
John Mott
#48. You can tell how popular a church is by who comes on Sunday morning. You can tell how popular the pastor or evangelist is by who comes on Sunday night. But you can tell how popular Jesus is by who comes to the prayer meeting.
Jim Cymbala
#49. Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals,a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.
Francois Rabelais
#50. I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.
Billy Graham
#52. I always feel inclined to blame Evangelist for some of the discomfort that poor Christian suffered in the Slough of Despond.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#53. It would have been absurd in the Evangelist to say that the Speech was always with God, if he had not some kind of subsistence peculiar to himself in God. This passage serves, therefore, to refute the error of Sabellius; for it shows that the Son is distinct from the Father.
John Calvin
#54. I'd rather wear out than rust out, he'd once said years before, echoing the words of the evangelist George Whitefield.
Laura Frantz
#56. One is Christianized to the extent that he is a Christianizer. One is evangelized to the extent that he is an evangelist.
Leon Joseph Suenens
#57. Loved once for ever loved: how surely sounds This gospel to me since I learned to list Truth from thy lips, mine own evangelist. What thought presumes to set now any bounds To Love whose being informs us and surrounds?
John Barlas
#58. In vain a zealous evangelist with a fely hat and flowing tie threads his way through the crowd, crying without cease: 'God is great and good. Come unto Him.' On the contrary, they all make haste toward some trivial objective that seems of more immediate interest than God.
Albert Camus
#59. As a children's minister, I always believed that I was an evangelist, and at the end of the book, there's a simple prayer that, whoever's reading the book could accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior
Soraya Diase Coffelt
#60. A humble man who lives a spiritual life, when he reads the Holy Scriptures, while relate all things to himself and not to others.
Mark The Evangelist
#61. With just a touch more self confidence and a liberal helping of ignorance I could have been a famous evangelist.
Robert A. Heinlein
#62. The coming of the kingdom of God cannot be observed, and no one will announce, 'Look, here it is,' or, 'There it is.' For behold, the kingdom of God is among you.
Luke The Evangelist
#63. Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.
Billy Graham
#64. Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one's life does not consist of possessions.
Luke The Evangelist
#65. Johnny Appleseed was revered . he was ... an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).
Michael Pollan
#66. One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.
Shirley Ann Grau
#67. God does not patch up the old life,
or make certain repairs on the old life;
He gives a new life, through the new birth.
Kathryn Kuhlman
#68. When a consumer derives value - especially from something that was given to him for free - he becomes the best kind of evangelist.
Mitch Joel
#69. If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, surely man passes like a shadow and troubles himself in vain.
Mark The Evangelist
#70. In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside.
Smith Wigglesworth
#71. I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Christian because of you and I hear you're not a Christian, that's shocking to me.' I don't take these things lightly, but that's who I am. I can't change it.
Daniel Everett
#72. Be an evangelist with your excellence.
Dave Ramsey
#73. Depression is the evangelist for emptiness.
Hannah Hart
#74. I'm a conductor of revivals. The only minister in the whole package. Little Richard, the evangelist.
Little Richard
#75. I am a board game enthusiast, a board game evangelist, a board game nerd, but I wouldn't say I'm 'keen' because I very rarely win, and 'keen' suggests you're actually good at something. But I do play a lot of them, and I have a pretty good-sized collection.
Rich Sommer
#77. Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Luke The Evangelist
#78. My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.
Chinua Achebe
#79. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Luke The Evangelist
#80. The great crowds themselves are meaningless. The thing that counts is what happens in the hearts of the people. The evangelist sows the seed, and much inevitably falls upon stony ground and bears no fruit. But if only a few seeds flourish, the results are manifold.
Billy Graham
#81. The evangelist cannot bring conviction of sin, righteousness, or judgment; that is the Spirit's work. They cannot convert anyone; that is the Spirit's work.
Billy Graham
#82. I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting.
Camille Paglia
#83. The job of the evangelist is never easy.
Ben Chifley
#84. Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.
Robert Barron
#85. Remove every barrier you can to fandom. A fan will be an evangelist for your work.
Dave Kellett
#86. There is no better evangelist in the world than the Holy Spirit.
Dwight L. Moody
#89. 12. Joseph was given a Gentile bride. Jesus was also given a Gentile bride, the Church.
Evangelist Dan Goodwin
#90. Philip is the only person in the Bible who was called an evangelist, and he was a deacon!
Billy Graham
#91. The well-known evangelist D. L. Moody is reported to have said that he had more trouble with D. L. Moody than with any other person he met!
Jared C. Wilson
#92. The word "evangelist" means someone who spreads good news. Studying the impacts of climate change as I do, it's hard to come up with good news. In many ways I feel more like a Cassandra or a Jeremiah than a good-news evangelist.
Katharine Hayhoe
