Quotes about evangelist (14 Quotes)






    The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high-school janitor, the taste of a designer of celluloid v.


    The apostles of Christ set about on mission throughout the world and St Mark evangelist went to Egypt. At the time the Egyptians suffered a lot with roman domination.

    The aging but energetic evangelist has been outspoken in challenging countries to redirect their energies from wars to cooperative projects for peace and development. Why must we continue pouring countless dollars into wars that, in the end, will never bring the reconciliation of enemies ... The time has come for the countries of the world to pool their resources and advance toward the world of peace desired by God.



    My mother went into the Peace Corps when she was sixty-eight. My one sister is a motorcycle freak, my other sister is a Holy Roller evangelist and my brother is running for president. I'm the only sane one in the family.

    I've never met an evangelist who gave up so easily and I hope she wasn't sent off for retraining when she reported back to HQ, sans convert but with some useful gardening tips.

    Sandburg's retelling of Lincoln's attendance at an evangelist rally led by Peter Cartwright in 1846, in response to accusations by Cartwright's followers that he was an infidel - Cartwright was his opponent in his race for Congress.


    In his enthusiasm, the evangelist often finds it difficult seriously to imagine that anyone could be called not to be an evangelist. The man of vision and imagination finds it difficult to see the value of those who do no more than plod on faithfully along a well-tried road. The man whose concern is in personal dealing with people and leading them to understand God better finds it difficult to be patient with the theologian or the Christian philosopher whose work is in the quiet of a book-lined study. Yet the truth is that the wholeness which God is working to achieve is never complete in an individual, but through individuals living together as one body, each supplying the deficiencies of the others.



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