Quotes About Teaching The Gospel

#1. Defining evangelism in a biblical way helps us align our evangelistic practice with the Scriptures. Here's a definition that has served me well for many years: Evangelism is teaching the gospel with the aim to persuade.

J. Mack Stiles

#2. I'm very happy. I like my work and the various aspects of it - going around the world, teaching the gospel according to St. Albert.

Albert Ellis

#3. When all is said and done, the home is the ideal forum for teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Tad R. Callister

#4. Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much, much better.

Laurie Anderson

#5. The laws of God given to mankind are embodied in the gospel plan, and the Church of Jesus Christ is made responsible for teaching these laws to the world.

Harold B. Lee

#6. I don't particularly want to work with my husband all the time, as in the living and the working thing.

Deirdre O'Kane

#7. If the teaching of Christ were a law, it would not be a gospel {glad tiding}, but a sad tiding.

C.F.W. Walther

#8. God will forgive you if you forgive others. Forgiving those who cause offence or injury is often exceedingly difficult. And yet, forgiveness is one of the most beautiful and important teachings of Jesus Christ. It is central to the gospel because, without it, you can't go to heaven.

Patrick Madrid

#9. In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

Criss Jami

#10. We must not adopt the world's view and then tweak it to make it Christian. We must draw a line in the sand and stand firm in the radical teachings of Christ and His gospel. We must preach the truth and be the examples of the truth we preach.

Paul Washer

#11. The longer we are members of the Church, the better we understand the gospel, the more we will be inclined to be peacefully minded. The more diligently we follow the teaching of Christ, the slower we will be to be angry with each other and the quicker we will be to forgive each other.

Theodore M. Burton

#12. My dear husband Thomas has informed me that I can't walk without natural hip action. The more I slow to adjust my walk, the more my hips determine to swing of their own accord.

Heather Day Gilbert

#13. Yes, President Young did teach that Adam was the father of our spirits, and all the related things that the cultists ascribe to him. This [i.e., Brigham Young's teaching on Adam], however, is not true. He expressed views that are out of harmony with the gospel.

Bruce R. McConkie

#14. Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

Henry Mintzberg

#15. We need to be acquainted with the promptings of the Holy Ghost, and we need to practice and apply gospel teachings until they become natural and automatic. These promptings become the foundation of our testimonies. Then our testimonies will keep us happy and safe in troubled times.

Allan F. Packer

#16. The teachings of the Gospel have direct consequences for our way of thinking, feeling and living.

Pope Francis

#17. This emerges clearly in the gospels, where Jesus's "authority" consists both in healing power and in a different kind of teaching, all of which the gospel writers - and Jesus himself - understood as part of the breaking-in of God's Kingdom.

N. T. Wright

#18. Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

Stephen Covey

#19. You have come nearer to mastering a good many aspects of cooking than anyone except a handful of great chefs, and some day it will pay off. I know it will. You will just have to go on working, and teaching, and getting around, and spreading the gospel until it does. (Avis DeVoto to Julia Child)

Joan Reardon

#20. I see apostasy in many ways occurring in Evangelical churches that really aren't teaching the truth of God's word. I do believe that some churches have become entertainment centers and a teaching a type of prosperity Gospel rather than teaching God's word.

Robert Jeffress

#21. Men had made, we believe, fundamental changes in the doctrines, purposes, and practices of the Pristine Gospel and Church. There had been an apostasy, or a falling away from the true character of Christ's teachings in the centuries which followed the Apostolic age.

Lowell L. Bennion

#22. After moving back to LA, I definitely would love to go to school and do more music in between acting as well as finally learning how to drive!

Megan Lee

#23. You're crackers."
"Marvelous isn't it? I find it's the only way to be.

Paul Magrs

#24. It is important to draw out the pastoral consequences of the Council's teaching, which reflects an ancient conviction of the Church. First, it needs to be said that in preaching the Gospel a fitting sense of proportion has to be maintained.

Pope Francis

#25. The Great Commission is a devotion to study of Scriptures, preaching and teaching of the gospel of salvation.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. The goal of gospel teaching ... is not to 'pour information' into the minds of class members ... The aim is to inspire the individual to think about, feel about, and then do something about living gospel principles.

Thomas S. Monson

#27. Giving a man a fish feeds him for one meal. Teaching a man to fish feeds him for a lifetime. As parents and gospel instructors, you and I are not in the business of distributing fish; rather, our work is to help our children learn 'to fish.'

David A. Bednar

#28. I think that's a part of what motivates me in my teaching and writing. Once the Gospel feels mainstream and becomes a nicely organized, orchestrated belief system, frankly, I don't think there is even an attraction to the human spirit.

Erwin McManus

#29. I know of nothing that brings greater joy to the human heart than laboring at home or abroad for the salvation of the souls of men. I know of nothing which gives us a greater love of all that is good, than teaching this Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Heber J. Grant

#30. One of the greatest challenges for all of us is to learn how to live in the world without participating in all that it offers. Worldly standards will always be in a state of flux. The only true and unchanging standards are those set by the Savior and His teachings of the restored gospel.

Donald L. Staheli

#31. People are searching for reasons for believing, searching for answers to the big existential questions of "Why am I here?" and "What is life all about?" I find that people are able to accept the teaching of the Gospel when it's presented to them in both a rational and positive way.

Jonathan Morris

#32. If you have no interest in actually committing yourself to an actual group of gospel-believing, Bible-teaching Christians, you might question whether you belong to the body of Christ at all!

Mark Dever

#33. I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.

Sergei Bubka

#34. How much verbal garbage there is going out across the air waves and across the pulpits of our land because preachers do not believe the Gospel; do not believe that Jesus Christ is the only way.

Dr. J. Otis Yoder

#35. We do not wish to abolish teaching and to make every man his own master, but if the curates will not teach the gospel, the layman must have the Scripture, and read it for himself, taking God for his teacher.

William Tyndale