Quotes About Evangelization

#1. As a result, one can observe in many agents of evangelization, even though they pray, a heightened individualism, a crisis of identity and a cooling of fervour. These are three evils which fuel one another.

Pope Francis

#2. Our prayers for the evangelization of the world are but a bitter irony so long as we only give of our superfluity and draw back before the sacrifice of ourselves.

Amy Carmichael

#3. The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history.

Andy Murray

#4. [Evangelization] is not something optional, but the very vocation of the People of God, a duty that corresponds to it by the command of the Lord Jesus Christ himself

Pope Benedict XVI

#5. Love is the greatest form of evangelization because it makes an invisible God visible.

Jason Evert

#6. The great tasks facing the ecclesial community in the modern world - and among the many I particularly stress evangelization and ecumenism - are centered on the Word of God and, at the same time, draw therefrom their justification and support.

Pope Benedict XVI

#7. There is no authentic evangelization that is not accompanied by action in behalf of the poor.

Gustavo Gutierrez

#8. The GREATEST HINDRANCES to the evangelization of the world are those within the Church.

John Mott

#9. We all want to do the will of God, and we know that there is nothing nearer to His heart than the evangelization of the world.

Oswald J. Smith

#10. People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so good to pagans, too. High-pressure evangelization strikes me as an attempt to deprive people of their freedom of choice.

Andrew Greeley

#11. The greatest barrier to evangelization today is bad example ... Our strategy of evangelization must be based upon sanctity, upon our enthusiastic response to Christ's universal call to holiness.

John Foley

#12. Art in the Church fundamentally exists for evangelization

Pope Francis

#13. Evangelization is a process of bringing the gospel to people where they are, not where you would like them to be. When the gospel reaches a people where they are, their response to the gospel is the church in a new place ...

Paul Vincent Donovan

#14. In many places an administrative approach prevails over a pastoral approach, as does a concentration on administering the sacraments apart from other forms of evangelization.

Pope Francis

#15. Beauty is the arrowhead of evangelization, the point with which the evangelist pierces the minds and hearts of those he evangelizes.

Robert Barron

#16. Proclaim when we evangelize, and it's what makes our efforts at evangelization fruitful.

Scott Hahn

#17. If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed
to the will of God.

Oswald J. Smith

#18. Let's pray for whole world that there be brotherhood. I hope this journey of the church we begin today is fruitful for evangelization.

Pope Francis

#19. The evangelization of the person and of human communities depends totally on this encounter with Jesus Christ.

Pope Benedict XVI

#20. The fact is, there can be no true evangelization without the Eucharist. It's not simply that the Eucharist is the context in which evangelization unfolds or even the goal of evangelization. It's the content of evangelization. It's what we

Scott Hahn

#21. Nail the colours to the mast! That is the right thing to do, and, therefore, that is what we must do, and do it now. What colours? The colours of Christ, the work He has given us to do- the evangelization of all the unevangelized.

Charles Studd

#22. I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

Andrew Greeley

#23. There is a Marian "style" to the Church's work of evangelization.

Pope Francis

#24. The fundamental task of the evangelization of culture is the challenge to make God visible in the human face of Jesus.

Pope Benedict XVI

#25. The single most important hindrance to world evangelization right now is the lack of total involvement by the body of Christ.

K.P. Yohannan

#26. We need, men so possessed by the Spirit of God that God can think His thoughts through our minds, that He can plan His will through our actions, that He can direct His strategy of world evangelization through His Church.

Alan Redpath

#27. I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church's energies to a new evangelization ... No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples.

Pope John Paul II

#28. 'Catholic writer' seems like you have an agenda of evangelization, as if you were somehow influenced in your choice of perspective by dogma or canon law. That has nothing to do with me. I don't have a lot in common with other 'Catholic' writers.

Mary Gordon

#29. In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the 'vertical dimension' of faith and the 'horizontal dimension' of love for one's neighbor and political change.

Jurgen Moltmann

#30. The whole church considered itself to be involved in mission and to have a missionary duty, and every believer was a witness, felt called to the work of evangelization, even so far as the supreme witness of bloody martyrdom that was always on the horizon.

Edward L. Smither

#31. It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization of the world, as it is for those who stand in the most prominent positions.

John R. Mott

#32. Evangelization is leading people to Jesus, not ourselves.

Paul George

#33. There is nothing in the world or the Church - except the church's disobedience - to render the evangelization of the world in this generation an impossibility.

Robert Speer

#34. The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer.

John Mott

#35. The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and to witness to Christ and to promote his Gospel of peace and love in every environment and culture.

Pope Benedict XVI

#36. The true goal of Christian unity is world evangelization.

David Shibley

#37. The new evangelization ... begins in the confessional.

Pope Benedict XVI

#38. The initial impetus to cross lines of race and heritage with the Gospel of Jesus Christ arose not from a committee planning world evangelization, but from God himself.

D. A. Carson

#39. The supreme task of the Church is the evangelization of the world.

Oswald J. Smith

#40. We need priests who are men of the interior life, "God's watchmen" and pastors passionately committed to the evangelization of the world, and not social workers or politicians.

Robert Sarah

#41. The mission of Tom Peterson and Catholics Come Home to bring souls home to Jesus and the church is critically important during this challenging time in our history. I fully support this New Evangelization project.

Rick Warren