Gospel Quotes

We do two shows a night for five weeks. A lotta times we'll go upstairs and sing until daylight - gospel songs. We grew up with it...It more or less puts your mind at ease. It does mine.

The best means of preaching the gospel is by personal contact.

My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage.

The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.

Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.

What can we do to win these men to Christ?

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose.

We are changed not by being told what we need to do for God, but by hearing the news about what God has done for us.

Go, send, or disobey.

I sang those old gospel songs for my mother, and she said, is that you? And I said, yes, ma'am. And she came over and put her arms around me and said, God's got his hands on you.

How many evangelism programs have you encountered in which sharing the gospel assumes no relationship with the customer and Jesus is sold like soap?

Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth.

Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk.

In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

The one indispensable requirement for producing godly, mature Christians is godly, mature Christians.

By and large, the gospel of grace is neither proclaimed, understood, nor lived.

I was made to go to church and I heard the gospel songs, and every now then somebody would come through with a guitar and that was a thrill!

Proclaiming the gospel to all mankind is a fundamental part of the mission of the Church.

Gospel songs to me are about the mansion in the sky, and washed in the blood of Christ's crimson blood, songs that are filled with biblical wording that's no longer understood by a lot of people.

As I am generous towards others ... As I see a person in need and don't just say, 'God bless you.' I am proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The mission proper to the Church is that of proclaiming the Gospel.

Before all else, the Gospel invites us to respond to the God of love who saves us, to see God in others and to go forth from ourselves to seek the good of others.

If the gospel is old news to you, it will be dull news to everyone else.

I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B I got into some Good God gospel compilations.

The best book in the world to put into the hands of one who desires to know about Jesus and to be saved is the gospel of John.

The key [to sharing the gospel] is that you be inspired of God, that you ask Him for direction and then go and do as the Spirit prompts you.

Since I was two years old, all I knew was gospel music. That music became such a part of my life it was as natural as dancing. A way to escape from the problems. And my way of release.

God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us.

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.

Do the truth quietly without display.

I do not want to drive across a bridge designed by an engineer who believed the numbers in structural stress models are relative truths.

It doesn’t matter who we are or where we’ve been, God sent His Son for us – that’s the beauty of the Gospel.

During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.

There is no mortal man that is so much interested in the success of an elder when he is preaching the gospel as the Lord that sent him to preach to the people who are the Lord's children

My family was into music. My dad was into music down south. My mom and grandmother were into gospel music so there were all types. That was my inspiration.

He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.

To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.

These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.

The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.

The heart of the gospel is that Christ has come to save us from the judgment of God.

The evangelist is the world's hopeless romantic, and just like a hopeless romantic, he must hope for the miracle of God more than the romance itself.

Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.

If the focus of our testimony is our changed life, we as well as our hearers are bound to be disappointed.

When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music.

To me, Gospel music is really any music that's a testimony and tells a story of what God has done in your life.

There are rooms for traditional and contemporary and hip hop Gospel music.