World Evangelism Quotes

#1. In no other way can the believer become as fully involved with God's work, especially the work of world evangelism, as in intercessory prayer.

Dick Eastman

#2. The world doesn't judge us by our theology; it judges us by our behavior. The validity of Scripture in the world's view is determined by how it affects us.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#3. Christian myth, reveals the truth that "the Christian was (and is) still like his forefathers a mortal hemmed into a hostile world.

Philip Zaleski

#4. Itinerant evangelists are the most important ambassadors and messengers on earth. They are a mighty army, spreading out across the world with a vision to reach their own people for Christ.

Billy Graham

#5. One of the great joys of my life has been to travel around the world and meet thousands of Christians in every country.

Billy Graham

#6. Ancient wisdom collides with modern crises, equipping believers to image Christ in a world entranced with salvific knock-offs.

Owen Strachan

#7. Whenever you feel like feeling like a devil's advocate, Bible-thump. That, in a worldly world, is the great irony and satire of evangelism.

Criss Jami

#8. Nations and civilizations rise, flourish for a time, and then decay. Eventually each comes to an end. This, because of sin, is the decree of history and the way of life on this planet.

Billy Graham

#9. People who were personally concerned about a better world, came to Washington, were drawn to it. Even though where we were going was still to be worked out. There was an elan, an optimism . . . an evangelism . . . it was an adventure.

Studs Terkel

#10. The church tastes true delight, and the world only samples a counterfeit. Pastors cannot help but pull off the mask of worldly thinking and harmful societal developments as they preach and teach and disciple.

Owen Strachan

#11. Wanted: Steel toed Bible thumpers to reach a monster truck mad world.

M.J. McGuire

#12. Spiritual disciplines answer the shallow world.

Richard J. Foster

#13. In the evangelical world, prying can be an indicator of compassion.

Kevin Roose

#14. I wept more in Korea than in all the past several years put together. These experiences changed my life. I could never be quite the same again ... I felt sadder, older. I felt as though I had gone in a boy and come out a man.

Billy Graham

#15. While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic.

James MacDonald

#16. Facebook has more than 1 billion members, which by population makes it the third largest country in the world - somewhere between India and the United States. Who's sending missionaries to that country? Who's planting churches there?

Phil Cooke

#17. Only God knows when the alarm will sound, ending the work and ministry of evangelism as we have known it.

Billy Graham

#18. I have stood in the places where history was made. I have seen with my own eyes the part that men and women of faith have played in these earthshaking events, and I have heard with my own ears their cries for freedom.

Billy Graham

#19. We must reject the thought that evangelism is to be separated from the importance of standing against evil. We weren't saved just to escape this world and go to Heaven. Transformed people transform the culture while standing boldly against evil.

James Robison

#20. The scene is France. The theater is the world.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#21. What we do here, matters. What we make here, matters. How we serve here, matters. If it is only about our destiny in the world to come, this world becomes a mere means to our true end; every person merely an object of evangelism.

James K. Wellman Jr.

#22. Ask God to help you see the world the way He sees it.

Billy Graham

#23. I began to wonder if what we were doing it evangelical circles had more to do with redeeming ourselves to culture than it did with showing Jesus to a hurting world, a world literally filled with outcasts.

Donald Miller

#24. Mass communication can aid in personal evangelism and the development of Christians, but it cannot be a substitute for the world seeing the truth lived through us.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#25. We must warn the nations of the world that they must repent and turn to God while there is yet time. We must also proclaim that there is forgiveness and peace in knowing Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.

Billy Graham

#26. Apologetics is about persuading people that there is a door to another world - a door that perhaps they never realized existed. Evangelism is about helping people to open that door and enter into the new world that lies beyond.

Alister E. McGrath

#27. I was born for a controversial world, and I cannot escape my destiny. John Quincy Adams

Paul C. Nagel

#28. All over the world God is opening doors of opportunity, making it possible for us to take the Gospel to millions who have never heard of Christ.

Billy Graham

#29. The church speaks finally in that it prays for the world.

Karl Barth

#30. He had found his vocation: to fight the Lord's battles in the Academy and the world at large.

Philip Zaleski

#31. How marvelous it was to stand in a place like the Soviet Union and talk about the coming kingdom and to tell them that Communism will not win. I told them capitalism would not win either; it's the kingdom of God that is going to win.

Billy Graham

#32. What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?

Barbara W. Tuchman

#33. God called me many years ago to be an evangelist, and I have never regretted His leading. I love the crusades, meeting people from every country and culture all over the world. My life has been blessed by friends from every land, and challenges from every corner.

Billy Graham

#34. When the world sees us doing evangelism, they just see us recruiting. When they see us doing justice, they see God's glory.

Timothy Keller

#35. The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

Joseph Campbell

#36. Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.

Alister E. McGrath

#37. During all my years as an evangelist,
my message has always been the Gospel of Christ.
It is not a Western religion, nor is it a message of one culture or political system . , .it is a message of life and hope for all the world.

Billy Graham

#38. My visits to Hungary over the past twelve years absolutely fixed my conviction that God's Holy Spirit was releasing a spiritual force in that part of the world that was bound to challenge the atheistic philosophy that had dominated nations in that region for decades.

Billy Graham

#39. You are the enemy and a vessel through which the cure flows - if Christ lives in you, then you are an embodiment of the very shot this hostile and crying world needs as it, in every waking moment, struggles belligerently to resist.

Criss Jami

#40. I've never seen such a hunger in people for spiritual things ... People realize the past is gone, the future is uncertain, and the present seems to be hopeless. As a result, many [in Moscow] were open to God.

Billy Graham

#41. We are called to go make disciples, but how do disciples live? How do we function in the world - in our marriages, families, schools and places of business? How do we live as salt and light in the society?

Michael Brown

#42. I have walked down jungle trails in Africa where I met fellow Christians; and immediately we were brothers even though we were separated by language, race, and culture.

Billy Graham

#43. Radical obedience to Christ is not easy ... It's not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.

David Platt

#44. 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