These evangelism quotes will inspire you. Evangelism is the winning or revival of personal commitments to Christ or the spreading of the Christian gospel by public preaching or personal witness.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging evangelism quotes, evangelism sayings, and evangelism proverbs.
Best Evangelism Quotes
- “Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus.” ~ D. Elton Trueblood
- “The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.” ~ Hudson Taylor
- “At the end of the day, the biggest obstacle to evangelism is Christians who don’t share the gospel.” ~ Albert Mohler
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“Prayer is crucial in evangelism: Only God can change the heart of someone who is in rebellion against Him. No matter how logical our arguments or how fervent our appeals, our words will accomplish nothing unless God’s Spirit prepares the way.” ~ Billy Graham
- “The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.” ~ C. S. Lewis , Evangelism quotes Bible
- “The simple definition of evangelism: Those who know, telling those who don’t.” ~ Leith Anderson
- “To be a soul-winner is the happiest thing in the world. And with every soul you bring to Jesus Christ, you seem to get a new heaven here upon earth.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
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“If you live by the same values and priorities [Jesus] had, you will find evangelism happening naturally. It becomes a life-style and not a project.” ~ Rebecca Pippert
- “We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.” ~ Oswald J. Smith
- “Oh, my brothers and sisters in Christ, if sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies; and if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay, and not madly to destroy themselves. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.” ~ C. S. Lewis
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“Evangelism is not imposing anything on anyone; it is simply sharing the truth.” ~ Mark Dever
- “It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.” ~ Martin Luther
- “Christians don’t tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my life and let it be” when you haven’t given Him one ounce?” ~ Leonard Ravenhill
- “Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news.” ~ Richard Halverson
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“Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.” ~ Isaiah
- “Don’t wait for a feeling or love in order to share Christ with a stranger. You already love your heavenly Father, and you know that this stranger is created by Him, but separated from Him… so take those first steps in evangelism because you love God. It is not primarily out of compassion for humanity that we share our faith or pray for the lost; it is first of all, love for God.” ~ John Piper
- “We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.” ~ John Stott
- “The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.” ~ Carl F. H. Henry
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“One Way: Jesus! One Job: Evangelism!” ~ T.L. Osborn
- “Successful evangelism involves not only harvesting, but sowing and watering, too. We must never think that because a nonbeliever remained unconvinced by our case that our apologetic has failed. For one encounter is not the end of the story.” ~ William Lane Craig
- “I’m all for lifestyle evangelism, but I’m also in favor of intentionality, where we seek out opportunities for spiritual conversations and are equipped to explain the gospel and why we believe it.” ~ Lee Strobel
- “Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.” ~ John Wesley
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“We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.” ~ Leonard Ravenhill
- “Evangelism was not a program in the Jerusalem church; it was a way of life. The believers’ lives and behaviors created such favor with the population of Jerusalem that people we drawn to the Lord.” ~ David Jeremiah
- “Being an extrovert isn’t essential to evangelism – obedience and love are.” ~ Rebecca Pippert
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“The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.” ~ R. Kent Hughes
- “Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread.” ~ Daniel Thambyrajah Niles
- “We Christians sometimes think we need a plan for evangelism. I don’t think Jesus had an evangelism plan. I think He just interacted with the people He came into contact with.” ~ Matt Diaz
- “One of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism.” ~ Billy Graham
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“It is clear you don’t like my way of doing evangelism. You raise some good points. Frankly, I sometimes do not like my way of doing evangelism. But I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it.” ~ Dwight L. Moody
- “The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.” ~ R. C. Sproul
- “Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you’re not saved yourself, be sure of that!” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “Every believer should evangelize. I know some Christians think that evangelism is only for people with special gifts for it, but I don’t believe the New Testament teaches that. While Paul does say that some believers have the call to be evangelists, all of us have the responsibility of evangelism.” ~ Mark Dever
- “Evangelism and the local church are inseparable. It’s like the Good Samaritan seeking an inn for the one he rescued.” ~ Reinhard Bonnke
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“Any method of evangelism will work—if God is in it.” ~ Leonard Ravenhill
- “The spirit of Christ is the spirit of missions. The nearer we get to Him, the more intensely missionary we become.” ~ Henry Martyn
- “Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t.” ~ John Piper , Mission and evangelism quotes
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“Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.” ~ Vance Havner
- “While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I’ll fight – I’ll fight to the very end!” ~ William Booth
- “Every church needs to grow warmer through fellowship, deeper through discipleship, stronger through through worship, and larger through evangelism.” ~ Rick Warren
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“We have been created for God and by God to transform the world around us.” ~ Christine Caine
- “If evangelism isn’t an expression of love of neighbor, it isn’t Christian evangelizing. And love of neighbor includes not only what I say to the neighbor but how I say that.” ~ Miroslav Volf
- “To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in this world.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
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“Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.” ~ Luis Palau
- “The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “Before I can call upon Christ as my Savior, I have to understand that I need a savior. I have to understand that I am a sinner. I have to have some understanding of what sin is.I have to understand that God exists. I have to understand that I am estranged from that God, and that I am exposed to that God’s judgment. I don’t reach out for a savior unless I am first convinced that I need a savior. All of that is pre-evangelism. It is involved in the data or the information that a person has to process with his mind before he can either respond to it in faith or reject it in unbelief.” ~ R. C. Sproul
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“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
- “Now a confirmed atheist, I’ve become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa: sharply distinct from the work of secular NGOs, government projects and international aid efforts. These alone will not do. Education and training alone will not do. In Africa Christianity changes people’s hearts. It brings a spiritual transformation. The rebirth is real. The change is good.” ~ Matthew Parris
- “The desperately poor are not going to come to us to hear the Good News. We have to go to them.” ~ Jackie Pullinger
- “Evangelism that starts at the nonbeliever’s point of felt need and ties the gospel into that area of need has the greatest capacity for capturing the mind and heart of the non-Christian.” ~ George Barna
- “If you as a pastor don’t have a passion for evangelism then don’t be surprised if your people done either.” ~ Aubrey Malphurs
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“Evangelism, in its purist form, is an overflow of worship.” ~ Bill Johnson
- “God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward circumstances – things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up my thought life and strengthening my character.” ~ Joni Eareckson Tada
- “These then are the marks of the ideal Church – love, suffering, holiness, sound doctrine, genuineness, evangelism and humility. They are what Christ desires to find in His churches as He walks among them.” ~ John Stott
- “There are actually only ever two pastoral problems you will ever encounter. The first is this: persuading those who are under the dominion of sin that they are under the dominion of sin. That’s the task of evangelism. And [second], persuading those who are no longer under the dominion of sin that they are no longer under the dominion of sin because they’re Christ’s.” ~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
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“I just want to lobby for God.” ~ Billy Graham
- “Bad evangelism says: I’m right, you’re wrong, and I would love to tell you about it” ~ Timothy Keller
- “He is not seeking a powerful people to represent Him. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised, and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength.” ~ Graham Cooke
- “May even the concept of unreached peoples be totally intolerable to us.” ~ David Platt
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“This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven.” ~ Ray Comfort
- “Worldliness in the church is a lot more pervasive than a lack of passion for evangelism. Nevertheless, one of the results of worldliness is a waning enthusiasm for evangelism.” ~ Mark Dever
- “Answering a student’s question, ‘Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?’ thus, ‘It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “The depth of our repentance will determine the depth of our revival.” ~ Frank Bartleman
