Evangelical Quotes - Page 4

• Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Years, Effort

  Tullian Tchividjian (2009). “Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different”, p.66, Multnomah

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• In Bolivia there are Catholic, Evangelical, Methodist, Baptist churches, and so on. In Bolivia there are indigenous religious beliefs like the rite of Pachamama Mother Earth, which shows us that Mother Earth is our life, we are born out of the Earth we live on the Earth and return to the Earth.

  Evo Morales

  Mother, Religious, Catholic

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• I would rather commit a sin of commission than a sin of omission, and the evangelical community is exactly the opposite. The evangelical community would rather not do something wrong and the price they're willing to pay for not doing something wrong is they're willing to fail to do something right; they're so afraid of making a mistake. Now the reason they're afraid of making a mistake is they're cowards and our community produces cowards.

  J.P. Moreland

  Mistake, Omission, Opposites

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• When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.

  Tom Perrotta

  Teacher, Writing, Culture

  "The Exchange: Tom Perrotta" by Sarah Larson, www.newyorker.com. September 21, 2011.

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• A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

  Hendrik Hertzberg

  Christian, Atheist, Progressive

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• At root, evangelical anti-intellectualism is both a scandal and a sin. It is a scandal in the sense of being an offense and a stumbling block that needlessly hinders serious people from considering the Christian faith and coming to Christ. It is a sin because it is a refusal, contrary to Jesus' two great commandments, to love the Lord our God with our minds. Anti-intellectualism is quite simply a sin. Evangelicals must address it as such, beyond all excuses, evasions, or rationalizations of false piety.

  Os Guinness

  Christian, Jesus, Block

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• I grew up fundamentalist, evangelical, Protestant. Those are my roots, and they are good roots. But it means the Pharisees are my people. I grew up with an image of God that was not helpful -- largely the face of my father expanded.

  William P. Young

  Father, Mean, Roots

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• I wish that those who believe in the doctrines of grace would be more gracious. That's all I'd say... I'm an evangelical. I believe the doctrines of grace.

  Rick Warren

  Believe, Grace, Wish

  Source: thrownscabbard.blogspot.com

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• I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look.

  Dave Hickey

  Art, Feelings, Looks

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. November 2007.

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• While we destroyed the Centre Party, we have not only brought thousands of priests back into the Church, but to millions of respectable people we have restored their faith in their religion and in their priests. The union of the Evangelical Church in a single Church for the whole Reich, the Concordat with the Catholic Church, these are but milestones on the road which leads to the establishment of a useful relation and a useful co operation between the Reich and the two Confessions.

  Adolf Hitler

  Party, Two, People

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922-August 1939”

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• When the term Christian or even Protestant is used, it seldom refers to any particularly evangelical doctrine or way of life. More often it refers to a religion accepted by the large majority, which assures them that God is not so much a Lord who demands obedience as a handyman who is available whenever we need help.

  John Howard

  Christian, Majority, Doctrine

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• If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will.

  Daniel Webster

  Devil, Literature, Pages

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• The idea that the Man Christ Jesus has absolute and final authority over the whole church and over all of its members in every detail of their lives is simply not now accepted as true by the rank and file of evangelical Christians

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• The work of God in salvation is a supernatural work, but in the United States of America and among Baptists it's been reduced down to a few evangelical hoops that if we can get someone to jump through, we declare them popishly to be savedit has been the pulpit that's sending more people to Hell than any liberal organization on the face of the earthnot a liberal Methodist, not a liberal Episcopalian, but a Baptist who claims to know God's word and yet does not understand the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Organization, America

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• There is a breeze blowing. I see it in the deep discontent that is being voiced with the threadbare state of the evangelical world, with its empty worship, its market-driven superficiality, and its trivial thought. It is a breeze blowing toward better, deeper, more honest things. I suspect that it is the Holy Spirit who is blowing, that this is his breeze, and that these leaves that are shaking are the signs of better things to come within an evangelical faith that is thus being reformed. Let us all pray that it is so!

  David F. Wells

  World, Honest, Spirit

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• The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, His grace is too ordinary, His judgment is too benign, His gospel is too easy, and His Christ is too common.

  David F. Wells

  Grace, Church, Today

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• Exploring Ecclesiology is true to its subtitle, being both vibrantly evangelical and admirably ecumenical; it is commendable for its depth, breadth, and erudition. Harper and Metzger's sympathetic engagement with Catholic ecclesiology is challenging and reciprocal. I especially appreciate how the authors emphasize and explore the vital connection between ecclesiology and eschatology, something very beneficial to readers seeking to better appreciate how living the Faith in community today relates to the hope of entering fully into Trinitarian communion in the life to come.

  Carl E. Olson

  Appreciate, Community, Catholic

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• North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the mailing list.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Korea, Principles, Degrees

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• There were three kinds of evangelical leaders: The dumb or idealistic ones who really believed. The out-and-out charlatans. And the smart ones who still believed – sort of – but knew that the evangelical world was sh*t, but who couldn't figure out any way to earn as good a living anywhere else.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Smart, Leader, Dumb

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• We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today--even in the evangelical church--over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it.

  Alistair Begg

  Taken, Confusion, Church

  Alistair Begg (2009). “The Hand of God: Finding His Care in All Circumstances”, p.120, Moody Publishers

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• J.C. Ryle is an evangelical champion...One of the bravest and best of men.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Champion, Best Of Me

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• In the true, original, catholic, evangelical religion of Jesus Christ, and in this alone, all the divided religions of Christendom find their union, their repose, their support. Find out His mind, His character, His will; and in His greatness we shall rise above our littleness; in His strength we shall lose our weakness; in His peace we shall forget our discord.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Jesus, Character, Greatness

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1864). “A Reasonable, Holy, and Living Sacrifice: A Sermon Preached in Westminster Abbey, on January 10, 1864, Being the Day Following His Installation”, p.18

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• Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half of the human race to misery.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Happiness, Race, Roots

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1822). “Queen Mab”, p.112

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• Labels such as, 'evangelical', 'fundamental', 'charismatic', 'liberal' contribute to polarization and produce a climate of implied or outspoken distrust. Respectful dialogue becomes virtually impossible. What we desperately need to offset this disunity and distrust is a new and cleansing theology of communication.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Religious, Self Esteem, Communication

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• Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology.

  Os Guinness

  Serious, Theology, Ifs

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