Top 44 Quotes About Evangelicalism
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Basically my relationship with evangelicalism is like a Taylor Swift song set to repeat.
Rachel Held Evans
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. Serving in obscurity can do more to shape a future leader than a dozen years of combing evangelicalism for the perfect position.
Dave Harvey
#9. This is a paradox of Whitefield's legacy: evangelicalism draws people of different churches while dividing those within the same denomination.
Melanie Ross
#10. Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.
Os Guinness
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. Evangelicalism as a movement is rushing headlong toward theological ambiguity, which is another way of saying apostasy.
Michael Horton
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. One thing we do well within evangelicalism is in thinking of Jesus as our friend. But He is also our King.
Stephen Nichols
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. As far as design theorists are concerned, theistic evolution is American evangelicalism's ill-conceived accommodation to Darwinism .
William A. Dembski
#21. The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.
R.C. Sproul
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Every (Christian) generation has a choice: to go out like [King] Saul or to go out like Paul.
Russell D. Moore
#26. I'm an attention freak. I want all the women in the world, and if I don't get them, I fall to the ground and start kicking my feet.
Eminem
#27. Do your best, but bear in mind that sometimes even your best efforts
don't give the desired results.
Eraldo Banovac
#28. A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.
Caroline Llewellyn
#29. 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
#32. Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will.
Lysander Spooner
#33. Descriptions all fall flat and tame unless the Holy Ghost fills them with life and power
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#34. Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.
W. H. Auden
#35. One thing, however, is certain in life. No one survives it.
Johnny Rich
#36. I'm fairly fond of boys, but my preference is for girls; When I have enough of a girl, she serves me still as a boy.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#37. I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.
Umberto Eco
#38. Oil wealth has been a curse on us, made us weak and docile.
Abu Bakar Bashir
#39. Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rock
If you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy,
maybe you can grasp it.
Dick Allen
#40. 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
#41. Few people can resist the temptation to try a little amateur research in a department quite outside their own, if only for the satisfaction of showing how successful they would have been had they only taken it up seriously.
M.R. James
#42. 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
#43. It's our task to immerse ourselves ... while keeping eyes and hearts open ...
Donna Tartt
#44. 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
