Proselytize Quotes

#1. I wish I could meet a Christian who would proselytize to me, but they keep running away from me. I wanna talk to you all.

Bill Hicks

#2. If you're a capitalist and you have the best goods and they're free, you don't have to proselytize, you just have to wait.

Eben Moglen

#3. 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

#4. My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.

Deborah Norville

#5. I adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also love music and like reading whenever I get the time.

Priyanka Chopra

#6. Last year, [Pope Francis] was asked about his secret to happiness. He said slow down. Take time off. Live and let live. Don't proselytize. Work for peace. Work at a job that offers basic human dignity. Don't hold on to negative feelings. Move calmly through life. Enjoy art, books and playfulness.

Timothy Egan

#7. Learn a little of anything, and you're ready to proselytize.

Mignon McLaughlin

#8. A man who denies what is essential to his being is a man who drills holes in the cup of his own happiness.

Brent Weeks

#9. How much do you have to hate somebody to not proselytize?

Penn Jillette

#10. I have been an atheist my entire adult life. I do not proselytize, however. Nor do I question the faith of others. I just don't want to be obliged to accept someone else's faith as a factor in my government.

Jack Germond

#11. It seems we humans never learn. And so we relearn the lesson every generation and then want to write epistles. We proselytize to our friends and shake them by the shoulders and tell them, Seize the day! What matters is THIS moment!

Abraham Verghese

#12. There is always the exceptional child, but the average tells us that the child is largely what the home has made him.

Billy Graham

#13. I'm a flaming faggot, Irving. I was sure you were on to that. I don't go around waving the flag, of course, and I definitely do not proselytize. Homosexuality is, to me, an inner satisfaction, a pride in a heritage of greatness. To marry a woman would be an inadmissible rejection of my identity.

Paddy Chayefsky

#14. I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.

Sean Hannity

#15. Believe. The lack of emphasis Plain People place on evangelism is often misunderstood. Setting an example of a holy life, they feel, makes a better witness than mere talk. Rather than proselytize, the Amish provide practical help when natural disasters strike.

Suzanne Woods Fisher

#16. The goal should not be to make money or acquire things, but to achieve the consciousness through which the substance will flow forth when and as you need it.

Eric Butterworth

#17. I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.

Rebecca Eaton

#18. But, you know, I'm sorry, I think democracy requires participation. I mean, I don't want to proselytize but I do feel some sort of duty to participate in the process in some way other than just blindly getting behind a political party.

John Cusack

#19. [Castellani's testimony] clearly illustrates the concern we have that there is no way to separate the efforts to proselytize from the efforts to reform people.

Abraham Foxman

#20. For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

Charles Hazlewood

#21. Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

James Gandolfini

#22. I felt like going out on the road and mixing it with music - which is something young people are always really interested in - would be a good way to proselytize. It was like feminist evangelism.

Kathleen Hanna

#23. The more people doubt their own beliefs the more, paradoxically, they are inclined to proselytize in favor of them.

David Brooks

#24. No, probably not. But only because I can't imagine ever wanting to be with anyone else ever again.

T. Torrest