Quotes on Witness & Mission

Christian quotes on Witness & Mission — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.

At first I thought I had to convert. Meanwhile I have learned that my task is to love. And love converts whomever it wills.

Mother Teresa

If God would have painted a yellow stripe on the backs of the elect I would go around lifting shirts. But since He didn’t I must preach “whosoever will” and when “whatsoever” believes I know that he is one of the elect.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

What is an evangelist? It is one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.

Adrian Rogers

The early Christians did not say “look what the world is coming to!” but “look what has come into the world!”

Carl F.H. Henry

Live what you have grasped of the Gospel, however little it may be.

Brother Roger

Whoever is full of joy preaches without preaching.

Mother Teresa

We Christians are the light of the world. Maybe only 40 watts. But 40 watts light up the room.

Otto Wassermann

Just as a candle is lit from the flame of another, so faith is kindled by faith.

Romano Guardini

I don't know how I would have survived the time after the accident without the Bible knowledge from Sunday school, though before that I had no idea what a great foundation the Bible is.

Samuel Koch

One beggar tells another where there is bread. That's how it is when Christians speak of their faith.

Friedrich von Bodelschwingh

If God calls you to be a missionary, even being a king would be a step down for you.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Christ is the only way to God, but there are as many ways to Christ as there are people who come to Him.

Os Guinness

The Christian is a person who makes it easy for others to believe in God.

Robert Murray McCheyne

Evangelism is the spontaneous overflow of a glad and free heart in Jesus Christ.

Robert Munger

If we cannot prevail with men for God, we will, at least, endeavor to prevail with God for men.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We do not fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not subsequently converted; we fail only if we do not faithfully tell the gospel at all.

Mark Dever

Christ has no body now but yours, no hands but yours. Your eyes are those through which Christ's compassion looks upon the world. With your feet he goes about doing good. With your hands he will now bless us.

Teresa of Ávila

Our task in the present is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second.

N.T. Wright

This is why too for every theologian who puzzles over abstract definitions of “atonement,” there are thousands who will say, with Paul, “The son of God loved me and gave himself for me”—and who will then get on with the job of radiating that same love out into the world.

N.T. Wright

I’ve yet to meet someone who found their way to faith by being criticized.

Philip Yancey

It makes all the difference in the world whether I view my neighbor as a potential convert or as someone whom God already loves.

Philip Yancey

The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly.

Oswald Chambers

Expect great things from God; attempt great things for God.

William Carey

Speak of Christ only when you are asked. But live so that people ask you about Christ!

Paul Claudel

One in a hundred reads the Bible; the other 99 read the Christian.

D.L. Moody

Religion is man's search for God. Jesus is God's search for man.

Unknown

What you want to kindle in others must be burning in you.

Augustine of Hippo

Stand firm, open your mouth, stop soon.

Martin Luther

A holy life will make the deepest impression. Lighthouses blow no horns; they just shine.

D.L. Moody

We do not want, as the newspapers say, a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.

Edward McKendree Bounds

I want the whole Christ for my Savior, the whole Bible for my book, the whole Church for my fellowship, and the whole world for my mission field.

John Wesley

I preached as never sure to preach again and as a dying man to dying men.

Richard Baxter

Whatever subject I preach, I do not stop until I reach the Savior, the Lord Jesus, for in Him are all things.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Winners of souls must first be weepers for souls.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The Church is the only society that exists for the benefit of those who are not its members.

William Temple

The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.

Luis Palau

I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn.

John Wesley

Some want to live within the sound of church or chapel bell; I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of hell.

C.T. Studd

I dream of a church that is famous for what fascinates it and what it burns for.

Johannes Hartl

People quoted here

Mother Teresa, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Adrian Rogers, Carl F.H. Henry, Brother Roger, Otto Wassermann, Romano Guardini, Samuel Koch, Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, Os Guinness, Robert Murray McCheyne, Robert Munger

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