(80 quotes found)
“If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”
Saint Augustine
“But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?”
William Booth
“The gospel to me is simply irresistible.”
Blaise Pascal
“It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or of the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?”
Chuck Palahniuk
“I don't preach a social gospel; I preach the Gospel, period. The gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ is concerned for the whole person. When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.”
Bishop Desmond Tutu
“Though there is antipathy in the human heart to the gospel of Christ, yet when Christians make their good work shine, all admire them. It is when great disparity exists between profession and practice that we secure the scorn of mankind.”
David Livingstone
“Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
Frank Sinatra
“Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of Jesus? Would those who believe it become his apprentices as a natural 'next step'? What can we reasonably expect would result from people actually believing the substance of my message?”
Dallas Willard
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