Inspirational Quotes on Evangelism

“Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.”

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

“He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.”

“I have but one passion - it is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ.”

“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.”

“My heart tells me that if I have the happiness of being employed in this mission, I will go and not return; but I shall be happy if the Lord will complete the sacrifice where He has begun it, and make the little blood I have shed in that land, the earnest of what I would give.”

“Christ beats His drum, but He does not press men; Christ is served with volunteers.”

“I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that I tried to save them.”

“And people who do not know the Lord ask why in the world we waste our lives as missionaries. They forget that they too are expending their lives, and when the bubble has burst they will have nothing of eternal significance to show for the years they have wasted.”

“We shall have all eternity in which to celebrate our victories, but we have only one swift hour before the sunset in which to win them.”

“I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians.”

“The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.”

“Christians, let us leave the government of the world till the King comes; let us leave the civilizing of the world to be the incidental effect of the presence there of the Gospel of Christ, and let us give our time, our strength, our money, our days to the mission distinctively committed to the Church, namely, to make the Lord Jesus Christ known "to every creature"!”

“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.”

“When Andrew went to find his brother, he little imagined how eminent Simon would become. You may be very deficient in talent yourself, and yet you may be the means of drawing to Christ one who shall become eminent in grace and service.”

“Every Christian is either a missionary or an impostor.”

“Love your fellowmen, and cry about them if you cannot bring them to Christ. If you cannot save them, you can weep over them. If you cannot give them a drop of cold water in hell, you can give them your heart's tears while they are still in this body.”

“The fact is, brethren, we must have conversion work here. We cannot go on as some churches do without converts. We cannot, we will not, we must not, we dare not. Souls must be converted here, and if there be not many born to Christ, may the Lord grant to me that I may sleep in the tomb and be heard no more. Better indeed for us to die than to live, if souls be not saved.”

“The man who is all aglow with love to Jesus finds little need for amusement. He has no time for trifling. He is in dead earnest to save souls, and establish the truth, and enlarge the kingdom of his Lord.”

“To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in this world. And with every soul you bring to Jesus Christ, you seem to get a new heaven here upon earth.”