Top 100 Quotes About The Gospel
#1. Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#2. Science is a truth that is true no matter what, no matter when and for all time and science as the kind of gospel truth replaces the gospel, which was religion.
Nell Irvin Painter
#3. When the gospel has been eclipsed (whether by repression, false religion secularism, humanistic philosophy, or spiritual decay within the church), the status of women has declined accordingly.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#4. To me the soul of an Indian seemed as precious as the soul of an Englishman, and the Gospel as much for the Chinese as for the European.
James Gilmour
#5. Preach the gospel to yourself, because as you consider who you are in light of God's perfect goodness, holiness and peace, you must soften toward others.
Thomas Brooks
#6. One thing is certain: the call of Christ is always a promotion. Were Christ to call a king from his throne to preach the gospel to some tribe of aborigines, that king would be elevated above anything he had known before. Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down.
A.W. Tozer
#7. I know these two weeks have been God walking right into my life like he has flesh and Kool-Aid coloured hair. The gospel according to Bodee Lennox. His safety. His protection. And love.
Courtney C. Stevens
#8. The gospel of Jesus Christ is not limited to a system of beliefs; it is a plan of action.
Howard W. Hunter
#9. When the real history of the world is written, it will show god's dealings with men, and the place the gospel has played in the rise and fall of nations.
Bruce R. McConkie
#10. Now that you have the knowledge of the gospel, you're called to do better.
Mike Glenn
#11. Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believed in the revealing truth Scripture.
Charles W. Colson
#12. I used to turn to nature and animals a lot. And fishing. I spend time still with my Bible and the gospel music, and I still have to feed the animals! But my wife and daughter have brought me a world of perspective when I'm feeling just a little "extra important."
Brandi Carlile
#13. Your personal testimony, however meaningful it is to you, is not the gospel.
R.C. Sproul
#14. When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The righteousness by which a person is justified (declared righteous) is not his own but that of another, Christ.
Martin Luther
#15. My dream became bigger and bigger. And the box got bigger than the message, than the Gospel.
Jim Bakker
#16. If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time ...
J.I. Packer
#17. The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness.
Arthur W. Pink
#18. Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
Francis Schaeffer
#19. It is unbelief that shuts the door to heaven and opens it to hell. It is unbelief that rejects the Word of God and refuses Christ as Savior. It is unbelief that causes men to turn a deaf ear to the Gospel.
Billy Graham
#20. Only [God] can convict nonbelievers of their sins; only He can convince them of the truth of the Gospel.
Billy Graham
#21. The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet--that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.
Oswald Chambers
#22. The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.
Baron De Montesquieu
#23. Church may be primarily for believers, but the gospel is for all people.
Dillon Burroughs
#24. The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus.
Pope Francis
#25. The only thing that frees you from the need to pretend in order to make people believe you are something when you are actually not is the gospel because the gospel tells you that identity, my meaning, my security, and all of those things are in Christ.
Tullian Tchividjian
#26. Many there are who, while they bear the name of Christians, are totally unacquainted with the power of their divine religion. But for their crimes the Gospel is in no wise answerable. Christianity is with them a geographical, not a descriptive, appellation.
Frederick William Faber
#27. So, relational evangelism? Go for it, as long as it turns into actual evangelism. You hanging out having a beer with your buddy so he can see that Christians are cool is not what we're called to do. You're eventually going to have to open up your mouth and share the gospel.
Matt Chandler
#29. The teachings of the Gospel have direct consequences for our way of thinking, feeling and living.
Pope Francis
#30. The Gospel is not merely a communication of things that can be known - it is one that makes things happen and is life-changing. The dark door of time, of the future, has been thrown open. The one who has hope lives differently; the one who hopes has been granted the gift of a new life.
Pope Benedict XVI
#31. The law tells us what to do; the gospel tells us what God has done for us in Christ.
Michael S. Horton
#32. The ability of the gospel to unite us on common strengths and common truths is one of the great miracles ... of the gospel.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#33. The gospel is not advice to be followed; it is news, good (eu) news about what has been done.
Timothy Keller
#34. The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God's glory.
John Piper
#35. But the only thing of value the church has to offer is the gospel. I believe that one result of the emerging Experience Economy will be a longing for authenticity. To the extent that the church stages worldly experiences, it will lose its effectiveness.
Skye Jethani
#36. The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.
Martin Luther
#37. If we wait till we run no risk, the gospel will never be introduced into the interior,
Hudson Taylor
#38. As Jesus says in the Gospel of Thomas, "If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." [Gospel of Thomas 70]
Adyashanti
#39. If it's not setting you free and enlarging life, then it's not Jesus' message. If it doesn't sound like good news, it's not the gospel.
Philip Yancey
#40. There is no cure for the ills of the world except the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Joseph Fielding Smith
#41. For knowledge, great knowledge, may be obtained in the mysteries of the gospel, without any work of grace in the soul. You see, even if a man has all knowledge, he may still be nothing, and so, consequently, not be a child of God.
John Bunyan
#42. As a father of six kids and as a man who's been transformed by the power of the gospel, I would never just let my kids flounder and just sort of try to figure out their own way through life when I know that I've got the best guide on the planet - God and His word.
Kirk Cameron
#43. It is not our believing of the Gospel that makes it true. It exists as independent, true Truth.
Alistair Begg
#44. Philip got out of God's way. He remembered that what makes the gospel offensive isn't who it keeps out, but who it lets in.
Rachel Held Evans
#45. But when we believe the gospel, and the Holy Spirit resides in us, we are free to experience the explosive current of holiness that flows from the Godhead into the soul of a believer.
Kevin DeYoung
#46. What is the pattern of worship that best conveys the richness of divine grace, faithfully interprets the gospel in our modern world and helpfully consolidates the body of Christ?
Geoffrey W Bromiley
#47. Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.
Timothy Keller
#48. If our worship isn't visible, comprehensive and extravagant, the gospel we heard must have been tiny, empty and cheap.
Louie Giglio
#49. Humanity wants comfort in its sorrow, light in its darkness, peace in its turmoil, rest in its weariness, and healing in its sickness and diseases: The Gospel gives all of this to us.
Billy Graham
#50. What role have I left for religion? None. And I have left none because the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ leaves none. Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion.
Robert Farrar Capon
#51. I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end. - Paul
John Piper
#52. Because modern Protestants have not only forgotten what Rome was, what she is, and what she will for ever be; the most irreconcilable and powerful enemy of the Gospel of Christ; but they consider her almost as a branch of the church whose corner stone is Christ.
Charles Chiniquy
#53. As multitudes of babies are dismembered and destroyed daily, this is clearly an issue where the gospel requires us to counter culture.
David Platt
#54. If men are in a state in which they find it hard to be weaned from their own ways and choose rather to serve the pleasures of the flesh than to serve the Lord, and refuse to accept the Gospel life, there is no common ground between me and them.
Saint Basil
#55. If the gospel is reduced because of our preferences or misunderstandings, we leave ourselves open to heresies and to attacking our brothers-in-arms.
Matt Chandler
#56. Friends and family are vitally important for an individual who is struggling to return to the gospel path. Those around such a person must refrain from judging. They must do all they can to show love.
M. Russell Ballard
#57. May I beg you carefully to judge every preacher, not by his gifts, not by his elocutionary powers, not by his status in society, not by the respectability of his congregation, not by the prettiness of his church, but by this - does he preach the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation?43
Steven J. Lawson
#58. The gospel frees us from demanding our own way, because nothing we desire to obtain is worth sinning against such love and kindness.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#59. To preach the gospel is to state every doctrine contained in God's Word, and to give every truth its proper prominence.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#60. Evangelion (that we call the gospel) is a Greek word and signifieth good, merry, glad and joyful tidings, that maketh a man's heart glad and maketh him sing, dance, and leap for joy.
William Tyndale
#61. To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God's nature and the character of sin, and then present Jesus as the only remedy for what ails them and the world. In my weekly preaching in the worship services I always call people to believe in Christ.
Timothy Keller
#62. The gospel confronts us with the hopelessness of our sinful condition. But we don't like what we see of ourselves in the gospel, so we shrink back from it.
David Platt
#63. If we do not roll up our sleeves to the task of the Gospel in our days, then we will amount to virtually nothing for God.
Alistair Begg
#64. Angels cannot preach the gospel, only beings such as Paul and you and I can preach the gospel.
Oswald Chambers
#65. It is a source of encouragement that many homosexuals report being transformed through the power of the Gospel.
Billy Graham
#66. The best means of preaching the gospel is by personal contact.
David O. McKay
#67. So today those who scorn to go to school to Christ and to train themselves in listening to the Word, really mock God himself and judge both the law and the prophets - and even the gospel itself - as without value.
John Calvin
#68. As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf or a piece of paper, so the mystery of Christ in the Gospel concentrates the rays of God's light and fire to a point to set fire to the human spirit.
Thomas Merton
#69. Every day, we hear that somebody got saved to our music from all over the world. The music reaches people. It can encourage them. I feel like I have to do it because there's somebody out there who needs to hear the gospel.
Andrae Crouch
#70. What then is holiness? Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out of the gospel in our souls (Eph 4:24).
John Owen
#71. The gospel of God and the love of God are expressed finally and fully in God's gift of himself for our everlasting pleasure. "In your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore."
John Piper
#72. An effective proclamation of the Gospel in contemporary Western society will need to confront directly the widespread spirit of agnosticism and relativism which has cast doubt on reason's ability to know the truth, which alone satisfies the human heart's restless quest for meaning.
Pope John Paul II
#73. Christendom seems unprepared for people who take the gospel that seriously.
Shane Claiborne
#74. God directs his people not simply to worship but to sing his praises "before the nations." We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.
Timothy Keller
#75. THOSE THAT HOPE LITTLE CANNOT GROW MUCH." - George MacDonald, The Hope of the Gospel
Edward H. Hammett
#76. You plant the gospel. You don't plant churches.
Alan Hirsch
#77. Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace into idolatry.
Martin Luther
#78. People who work themselves to the bone and when they produce young they preach to the young the gospel of work - which is nothing, at bottom, but the doctrine of inertia.
Henry Miller
#79. True holiness does not mean a flight from the world; rather, it lies in the effort to incarnate the Gospel in everyday life, in the family, at school and at work, and in social and political involvement.
Pope John Paul II
#80. The gospel makes us extrospective, turning our gaze upward to God in faith and outward to our neighbor in love.
Michael S. Horton
#81. Jesus is why women have traveled continents, spent decades learning a strange language so they could translate the Gospel, planting churches, caring for the sick, educating the illiterate, and marching for the oppressed.
John Ortberg
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. Each layman must be his own apologist, responsible for his stewardship of the Gospel in his daily life and work.
William Stringfellow
#85. I have reached out my hand, I have plucked the fruits of the Gospel, I have eaten of them, and they are sweet, yea, above all that is sweet.
Heber J. Grant
#86. Preach the gospel wherever you can; when all else fails use words.
Francis Of Assisi
#87. Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?
Leonard Ravenhill
#88. Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us.
Shane Claiborne
#89. Religion poses a danger of creating division or intolerance between groups of people. However, the gospel of Jesus lead us to three things: humble service, reconciling behavior that is neither patronizing nor self-righteous, and a love toward people who hold different beliefs than we do.
Timothy Keller
#90. We need to attack the false foundation of autonomous human reasoning that leads to evolution and millions of years, and proclaim that God's revealed Word is authoritative and its history of the world is foundational to Christian morality and the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Ken Ham
#91. Those who are still afraid of men have no fear of God, and those who have fear of God have ceased to be afraid of men. All preachers of the gospel will do well to recollect this saying daily.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#93. The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it.
Reinhard Bonnke
#94. Too many Christians have substituted comfortable living for a life changed by the gospel.
David Kinnaman
#95. We make time for what we truly value. We build habits and routines around the things that really matter to us. This is an important principle to understand as we seek to build our lives around the gospel. Do you want a cross centered life? A cross centered life is made up of cross centered days.
C.J. Mahaney
#96. From the church I received a spiritual foundation that has kept me balanced. From the gospel music I learned the importance of singing with emotion- authentic emotion- not contrived- which has made my music endearing.
Oleta Adams
#97. Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.
Ravi Zacharias
#98. I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.
T.D. Jakes
#99. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. p I have become all things to all people, that q by all means I might save some. 23I do it all for the sake of the gospel, r that I may share with them in its blessings.
Anonymous
#100. What it means among other things is the more we learn about the nature of the universe, the nature of creation ... if we're not updating what we mean by God ... what we mean by the gospel, we're going to have outdated, misleading and actually trivial understandings of those.
Michael Dowd
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