Evangelical Quotes

“Listen to people from your heart, as if your life depended on it, and you will find that in turn people will listen to you with all of theirs.”
― Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“The problem with the evangelical homeschool movement was not their desire to educate their children at home, or in private religious schools, but the evangelical impulse to "protect" children from ideas that might lead them to "question" and to keep them cloistered in what amounted to a series of one-family gated communities.”
― Frank Schaeffer, Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back

“The choices you make from this day forward will lead you, step by step, to the future you deserve.”
― Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess.”
― Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“The collapse in evangelical doctrinal consensus is intimately related to the collapse in the understanding of, and role assigned to, Scripture as God's Word spoken within the church.”
― Carl R. Trueman, Reformation: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

“What you deserve will be down to you, and you alone.”
― Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

“The only power God recognizes in His church is the power of His Spirit whereas the only power actually recognized today by the majority of evangelicals is the power of man.”
― A.W. Tozer, Tozer on Christian Leadership: A 366-Day Devotional

“Have you heard of the Children of Mae?”
“The cult?” She knew of a religious group whose members went door to door, preaching the benefits of self-discipline—abstinence, celibacy or monogamy, vegetarianism—pretty much anything fun was prohibited. They had never come to Vesper’s house because her father was a butcher and probably pretty low on their list of possible converts.”
― Colleen Chen, Dysmorphic Kingdom

“There is nothing Evangelical about me and nothing Diabolical.”
― Jean Pierre Van Rossem, De engel in de duivel

“Bethune was a communist and an atheist with a healthy contempt for his evangelical father.”
― Larry Hannant, The Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune's Writing and Art

“Furthermore, unlike so many of his evangelical contemporaries he did not hold the view that the various inter-denominational youth movements represented the most hopeful field of labour; indeed his doctrine of the church left him with little sympathy for that attitude.”
― Iain H. Murray, The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones - 1899-1981

“An evangelical is one who says to a liberal: I'll call you a Christian if you call me a scholar.”
― Russell Moore

“Apparently Trump voters think God meant for marriage to be between a man, his third wife, and several porn stars.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert

“I do not expect that the mere fact that I was once an evangelical apologist and now see things differently should itself count as evidence that I must be right. That would be the genetic fallacy. It would be just as erroneous to think that John Rankin must be right in having embraced evangelical Christianity since he had once been an agnostic Unitarian and repudiated it for the Christian faith.”
― Robert M. Price

“Lordship and rapport are the keys to save us from being combative and make us more attractive in spiritual conversations.”
― Gary Rohrmayer, Spiritual Conversations: Creating and Sustaining Them Without Being a Jerk

“Evangelism, instead of being a normal part of careful and regular expository preaching, with the twin effect on the consciences of the unconverted and on the growth in grace of Christians, becomes a special, dramatic activity. This leads to an orientation of church life away from Scripture, and as scriptural and non-scriptural duties become confused, the main duties which God requires of Christians and ministers are overshadowed.”
― Iain H. Murray, The Invitation System

“An evangelical is one who says to a liberal, 'I'll call you a Christian if you call me a scholar.”
― Russell Moore

“The evangelical culture moves too quickly to praise from lament. We do not hear from all of the voices in the North American evangelical context. Instead, we opt for quick and easy answers to complex issues.”
― Soong-Chan Rah, Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times

“unity. Evangelicals, by definition, don't care about "unity" nearly as much as they care about truth. When you say "We may differ on some issues of morality and theology, but the important thing is that we stay together in one united Church" you pre-suppose that the liberals are right and the evangelicals are wrong. Which, when you think about it, isn't very liberal at all.”
― Andrew Rilstone

“The blessing has been so significatn that we have continued our satiric tact [sic] with an additional objective in mind -- keeping the suits and haircuts away. Whenever a promising movement of the Holy Spirit begins nowadays, one of the first things that happens is that the agents, businessmen, and other assorted handlers move in so that they might straighten out certain unmarketable "blemishes" in order to take the show on the road. And when a promising ministry hits the big time, the unfortunate people in it are made twice as much sons of hell as their promoters. It is therefore our resolve to stay as unmarketable as we can. If we ever get invited to the Great Black Tie Banquet of Evangelicalism, we want everyone there to be braced for the moment when we, on a prearranged signal, throw our dinner rolls at Pat Robertson”
― Douglas Wilson, A Serrated Edge: A Brief Defense of Biblical Satire and Trinitarian Skylarking

“The word evangelical is thrown around quite loosely these days in the media. It has become synonymous with being a Republican or a conservative. It may come as a shock to some, but every Republican is not a Christian and every Christian is not a conservative.”
― Jerry Kinard

“For the evangelical witness in the United States to flourish, it doesn't need better branding, but genuine revival.”
― Mark Labberton, Still Evangelical? Ten Insiders Reconsider Political, Social, and Theological Meaning

“I didn't like to read the Bible, but I did like to hold it. I wondered if, for some men, that was the reason they became preachers.”
― Robert Haller, Another Life

“Handshaking is about balance, really, between the limp fish shake and the bone-crushing vise. Perhaps someday I'll graduate to the two-handed shake that a spry nun once gave me at a soup kitchen, her hands cupped around my own with a gentle press, as though listening to me was all she wanted to do.”
― Nicole Sheets

“Somewhere along the line, I had bought into the idea, so pervasive in evangelical culture, that reading the right books and listening to the right music will make you ("inspire you to be") a better Christian. Somehow, I had confused the trappings of faith with faith itself.”
― Anne Dayton

“1) “How did I end up down this rabbit hole of being obsessed with men on the DL (down-low)? Why did I prefer playing more in the straight arena with the closet cases (as they were called in my day) and the bisexual men over the gay ones?”

2) “We didn’t identify in my day; you were either gay, bisexual, or straight. People will always label others or pigeonhole them without even knowing for sure who they really are. They presumably stereotype and judge just by your outward appearance.”

3) “It wasn't until the seventh grade that Sister Gloria would be my social studies teacher, and I began leaning more towards being an extrovert than the anxious introvert that I was. All the accolades go to her. She lit the flame under my ass that would be the catalyst for my advocacy. Her podium, located front and center of the classroom, became ground zero for me and where I found my voice.”

4) “Their taunting was my kryptonite. My peers hated me for no other reason than the fact that they thought I was gay. I was only thirteen and often wondered how they knew who I was before I did.”

5) “Evangelical Christian Anita Bryant (First Lady of Religious Bigotry), along with her minions, led a crusade against the LGBTQ community back in 1977 and said we were trying to recruit children and that ‘Homosexuals are human garbage.’ My first thoughts were, how unchristian and deplorable of her to even say something like that, not to mention, to make it her life’s mission promoting hate.”

6) “Are there any more Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. kind of Christians in this country today? Dr. King knew about his friend’s homosexuality and arrest. Being a religious man and a pastor, Dr. King could have cast judgment and shunned Bayard Rustin like so many other religious leaders did at the time. But he didn’t. That, to me, is the true meaning of being a Christian. He loved Bayard unconditionally and was unbiased towards his sexual orientation. Dr. King was not a counterfeit Christian and practiced what he preached—and that, along with remembering what Jesus had said, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself,’ is the bottom line to Christianity and all faiths.”

7) “We are all God’s children! That is what I was taught in Catholic school. God doesn’t make mistakes—it’s as simple as that. Love is love—period! I don’t need anyone’s validation or approval, I define myself.”

8) “You will bake our cakes, you will provide us our due healthcare, you will do our joint tax returns, and yes, you will bless our unions, too. Otherwise, you cannot call yourselves Christians or even Americans, for that matter.”

9) “The torch has been passed. But we must never forget the LGBT pioneers that have come before and how they fought in the streets for our lives. Never forget the Stonewall riots of 1969 nor the social stigma put upon us during the HIV/AIDS epidemic from its onset in the early 1980s. Remember how many died alone because nobody cared. Finally, keep in mind how we were all pathologized and labeled in the medical books until 1973.”
― MICHAEL CAPUTO

“The Bible Belt and its unchristian undertow leaving welts on the bare bottoms of unbelievers.”
― Bono, Surrender Bono Autobiography 40 Songs By Bono & Fight Thirty Years Not Quite at the Top By Harry Hill 2 Books Collection Set

“Conservative” should not be used as a synonym for “evangelical.” Evangelicals have
been only selectively conservative. Many evangelicals have also been progressive, and
sometimes even radical—in doctrine, in ethics, in politics, in art, and more: whatever
gets the job done.”
― John G. Stackhouse Jr., Evangelicalism: A Very Short Introduction

“Evangelicalism increasingly became a global culture. By the 2020s, the largest
congregations in the world were not in Texas or Georgia or California, but in Korea,
Nigeria, and Brazil.”
― John G. Stackhouse Jr., Evangelicalism: A Very Short Introduction

“Especially in the cause of mission, Christians must be sensitive to language—every bit as much as foreign missionaries must be sensitive to language in their crosscultural contexts. How do we hope to win the attention and appreciation of others if we offend them on secondary issues? So keeping up with trends in polite (or “correct”) speech isn’t merely to be trendy. It might be just considerate.”
― John G. Stackhouse Jr., Woke: An Evangelical Guide to Postmodernism, Liberalism, Critical Race Theory, and More