Francis of Assisi Quotes

The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.

When we share Christ, the Truth behind our transformation, we are offering people an opportunity to be transformed.

Christians are supposed to be evangelicals. And I am. I am evangelical.

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

When you are giving people the gospel, you are giving them something to believe, and you have to set the stage for that. You don't just drive up and dump the truck and drive off.

The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.

I'm a firm believer in Jesus, that he died for our sins. That's something I want to stand for. I want to share that to the world. That's what we're called to do.

One of the greatest sermons ever pronounced on missionary work is this simple thought attributed to Saint Francis of Assisi: “Preach the gospel at all times and if necessary, use words.” Opportunities to do so are all around us. Do not miss them by waiting too long on the road to Damascus.

The goal of Christian mission is not success, but faithful witness; not power, but proclamation; not technique, but truth; not method, but message.

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

Dear young people, always be missionaries of the Gospel, every day and in every place.

Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

Woe to me if I do not preach the gospel.

There is nothing colder than a Christian who does not seek to save others.

I believe that we are given an order by Jesus. One of the last things he did was to spread the word of God and he being the basis for our salvation. Christians are supposed to be evangelicals. And I am.

If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is concerning missions. If there be anything about which we cannot tolerate lukewarmness,it is the matter of sending the gospel to a dying world.

This is the mission of every Christian: lumina pandit - to spread the light and to tell the world of God's love.

I try to use every game as an opportunity to witness. I try to do a little signal every time I make a shot as a way to preach the message in little ways that I can.

This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops.

Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.

So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.

Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she bears witness to God’s love. Be missionaries of God’s tenderness!

For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious system that can be experienced but not explained.

Now is the moment in the timetable of the Lord to carry the gospel farther than it has ever been carried before.... Many a person in this world is crying, knowingly and unknowingly, 'Come over ... and help us.' He might be your neighbor. She might be your friend. He might be a relative. She might be someone you met only yesterday. But we have what they need. Let us take new courage from our studies and pray, as did Peter, 'And now, Lord, ... grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word'

A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel.