The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor. — Dorothy Day
The gospel to me is simply irresistible. — Blaise Pascal
The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy! — Brennan Manning
The Gospel is not reformation, decoration or renovation. It is liberation. — Reinhard Bonnke
The popular gospel of this day, is the laughing-stock of Hell; it dare neither damn the sinner, nor sanctify the saint. — Catherine Booth
Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams. — Brennan Manning
The true Gospel of Jesus Christ is a revelation of how God has taken sinful man and made him a new creature and imparted to him a perfect righteousness. — John Osteen
Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone, since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character. — Timothy Keller
Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can't get away from the gospel in shoe leather. — Donald Grey Barnhouse
The law is for the self-righteous, to humble their pride: the gospel is for the lost, to remove their despair — Charles Spurgeon
Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving. — B. B. Warfield
Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace. — Brennan Manning
Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell. — David Platt
The gospel tells that our Judge has become our Savior. — J. I. Packer
Short Ragamuffin Gospel Quotes
The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time. — Carl F. H. Henry
What makes the Gospel offensive isn’t who it keeps out, but who it lets in. — Rachel Held Evans
The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment. — John F. MacArthur
Cheap grace is grace without discipleship. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Law is for the proud and the Gospel for the brokenhearted. — Martin Luther
God spreads grace like a 4-year old spreads peanut butter-He gets it all over everything. — Mark Lowry
Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors. — Augustus Toplady
Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners — Robert Farrar Capon
Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior. — Tullian Tchividjian
Ragamuffin Gospel Image Quotes
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God. — Brennan Manning
A church that doesn't provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn't unsettle, a word of God that doesn't get under anyone’s skin, a word of God that doesn't touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed — what gospel is that? — Oscar Romero
The true convert does not receive the gospel as an addition to his previous life, but in exchange for it. — Paul Washer
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. — Soren Kierkegaard
The Gospel is ‘Good News’, not ‘Good History’, because when it’s preached, it happens. — Reinhard Bonnke
Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel. — John Calvin
There are two things to do about the gospel. Believe it and behave it. — Susanna Wesley
Don't you quit. You keep walking, you keep trying, there is help and happiness ahead. Some blessings come soon. Some come late. Some don't come until heaven. But for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be alright in the end. Trust God and believe in Good Things to Come. — Jeffrey R. Holland
The Gospel is like water; no man invented it, yet no man can live without it. — Reinhard Bonnke
Gospel Songs Quotes
I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people. — Pat Boone
Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on. — Mahalia Jackson
Music is given of God to further his purposes. Sweet melodies mellow the souls of men and help prepare them for the gospel. After men receive the truth, songs of praise to Deity help to sanctify and cleanse their souls. — Bruce R. McConkie
Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt. — Johnny Cash
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. — Elvis Presley
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. — Mahalia Jackson
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. — Johnny Cash
Even if I make a gospel album, my gospel songs are going to get you dancing and crunk. — Chingy
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. — Larry Norman
Preaching The Gospel Quotes
We must not adopt the world's view and then tweak it to make it Christian. We must draw a line in the sand and stand firm in the radical teachings of Christ and His gospel. We must preach the truth and be the examples of the truth we preach. — Paul Washer
Ministers often preach about the Gospel instead of preaching the Gospel. They often preach about sinners instead of preaching to them. — Charles Grandison Finney
The Galatians are severely censured for giving heed to false doctrines, and are called to pronounce even an apostle anathema, if he preached another gospel. — Charles Hodge
The world's greatest need is preaching preachers. The Gospel is our emancipation proclamation: let's take it to the slaves of sin. — Lester Roloff
The gospel must be preached afresh and told in new ways to each generation, since every generation has its own unique questions. The gospel must constantly be forwarded to a new address, because the recipient is repeatedly changing his place of address. — Helmut Thielicke
The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God. — Oswald Chambers
A great reformation and revival-it will happen the same way the early Christians conquered Rome. Their program of conquest consisted largely of two elements: gospel preaching and being eaten by lions, a strategy that has not yet captured the imagination of the the contemporary church. — Douglas Wilson
If women can organize missionary societies, temperance societies, and every kind of charitable organization... why not permit them to be ordained to preach the Gospel and administer the sacraments of the Church? — Frances E. Willard
The question is not, "Do you know you are a sinner?" the question is this, "As you have heard me preach the Gospel, has God so worked in your life that the sin you once loved you now hate?" — Paul Washer
The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin. — Martin Luther
Sharing The Gospel Quotes
At the end of the day, the biggest obstacle to evangelism is Christians who don’t share the gospel. — Albert Mohler
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations — Oswald Chambers
We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity. — Gladys Knight
I recognize that not all of us may have the same abilities and talents in sharing the gospel. But I want to keep the heat on all of us for getting the good news out there. — Mark Dever
Anti-intellectualism has spawned an irrelevant gospel. Today, we share the gospel primarily as a means of addressing felt needs. — J.P. Moreland
Share the Gospel. According to the Bible, it is every believer's privilege and responsibility to share the Gospel. If we understand what lies ahead for those who do not know Christ, there will be a sense of urgency in our witness. — David Jeremiah
We mustn't be content to just sit around pointing out the errors in others; we actually need to be sharing the gospel and praying for people to be converted. — Mark Dever
When you love the Lord, you long to glorify Him and see the nations fall at His feet in worship. When you love your neighbor as yourself, you share the gospel with him and seek to meet his needs in every way you can, which includes seeing him fall at Jesus' feet in thanksgiving for salvation. — David Sills
Life is an 'open-book' exam, but the problem is that most of the students don't have the 'book', or refuse to open it-a fact that ought to spur us on as Church members to share the gospel more widely so that life would be meaningful for more people. — Neal A. Maxwell
I think that there are many things in the New Testament that show us that the godliness of our conversation plays an important evangelistic role. The apostles are clear that we mustn't limit the explicit sharing of the gospel to formal preaching. It can also happen in ordinary conversations. — Mark Dever
My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it. — Brennan Manning
God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to apply spiritual cosmetics to make myself presentable to Him. I can accept ownership of my poverty and powerlessness and neediness. — Brennan Manning
In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve. — Brennan Manning
Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken. — Rich Mullins
How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved! — Brennan Manning
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. — Brennan Manning
Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps. — Brennan Manning
When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally. — Brennan Manning
There is a beautiful transparency to honest disciples who never wear a false face and do not pretend to be anything but who they are. — Brennan Manning
Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing in guilt are nauseating to God and are a flat denial of the gospel of grace. — Brennan Manning
The temptation of the age is to look good without being good. — Brennan Manning
The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.' 'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either. — Brennan Manning
The beauty of the ragamuffin gospel lies in the insight it offers into Jesus: the essential tenderness of His heart, His way of looking at the world, His mode of relating to you and me. 'If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says, but watch what he does. — Brennan Manning
When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished, our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments and the surprises of the Spirit. — Brennan Manning
If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says but watch what he does. — Maurice Blondel
I have been seized by the power of a great affection. — Brennan Manning
When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace. — Brennan Manning
Reality, truth, and Jesus Christ are incredibly open-ended — Brennan Manning
The ragamuffin gospel says we can't lose, because we have nothing to lose. — Brennan Manning
The ragamuffin who sees his life as a voyage of discovery and runs the risk of failure has a better feel for faithfulness than the timid man who hides behind the law and never finds out who he is at all. — Brennan Manning
Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others. — Brennan Manning
False gods - the gods of human understanding - despise sinners, but the Father of Jesus loves all, no matter what they do. But of course this is almost too incredible for us to accept. — Brennan Manning
The god who exacts the last drop of blood from his Son so that his just anger, evoked by sin, may be appeased, is not the God revealed by and in Jesus Christ. And if he is not the God of Jesus, he does not exist. — Brennan Manning
The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.- — Brennan Manning
All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God — Brennan Manning
Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance. — Brennan Manning
The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit. — Brennan Manning
It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker. — Brennan Manning
God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us. — Brennan Manning
The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. — Brennan Manning
Do the truth quietly without display. — Brennan Manning
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