The glory of the gospel is that when the church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it.
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The Gospel | Church
The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself or less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
– Tim Keller
God | The Gospel | Humility | Pride | Sin
The music of the Gospel leads us home.
– Frederick W. Faber
The Gospel
Wherever Jesus has been proclaimed, we see lives change for the good, nations change for the better, thieves become honest, alcoholics become sober, hateful individuals become channels of love, unjust persons embrace justice.
– Josh McDowell
The Gospel | Hate
The simplicity of the gospel gives what the complexity of human wisdom promises but never delivers.
– John MacArthur
The Gospel
But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?
– William Booth
Preaching | The Gospel | Struggles
Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, ‘Leonard, you took Me too seriously’?
– Leonard Ravenhill
Chastisement | Criticism | The Gospel
Other men may preach the gospel better than I, but no man can preach a better gospel.
– George Whitefield
Preaching | The Gospel
The reason that marriage is so painful and yet wonderful is because it is a reflection of the Gospel, which is painful and wonderful at once. The Gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.
– Tim Keller
The Gospelmarriage
The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a Person who is the Truth.
– Alexander MacLaren
The Gospel
God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.
– Martin Luther
The Bible | The Gospel | Nature
All around us we see Christians and churches relaxing their grasp on the gospel, fumbling it, and in danger of letting it drop from their hands altogether.
– John Stott
The Gospel
It will not do to say that you have no special call to go to China. With these facts before you and with the command of the Lord Jesus to go and preach the gospel to every creature, you need rather to ascertain whether you have a special call to stay at home.
– Hudson Taylor
Obedience | The Gospel
The use or abuse of Christianity in contradiction to the very message of the gospel reveals not the gospel for what it is, but the heart of man. That is why atheism is so bankrupt as a view of life, for it miserably fails to deal with the human condition as it really is.
– Ravi Zacharias
Christianity | Atheism | The Gospel
Here is the principle – adapt your measures to the necessity of the people to whom you minister. You are to take the Gospel to them in such modes and circumstances as will gain for it from them a hearing.
– Catherine Booth
Evangelism | Circumstances | The Gospel
There is a moral and spiritual war for the souls of Americans. And this war must be waged by preaching the Gospel, prayer, and obedience to God’s Word.
– David Jeremiah
Evangelism | America | The Gospel
I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou can eat it all to thyself.
– Charles Spurgeon
Apathy | The Gospel
The gospel which they so greatly needed they would not have; the miracles which Jesus did not always choose to give, they eagerly demanded.
– Charles Spurgeon
Miracles | Jesus | The Gospel
Christ in you, on the grounds of redemption this is the Gospel! To preach anything less than this must inevitably produce “Evan-jellyfish” folk with no spiritual vertebrae, whose faith does not “behave!”
– Major Ian Thomas
Preaching | Redemption | The Gospel
Paul’s claim [was] that the message he preached was the authentic gospel of Christ. It is this: two things on which Paul pre-eminently insisted – that salvation was provided by God’s grace and that faith was the means by which men appropriated it.
– F.F. Bruce
The Gospel
By the light of nature we see God as a God above us, by the light of the law we see Him as a God against us, but by the light of the gospel we see Him as Emmanuel, God with us.
– Matthew Henry
God | Nature | The Gospel
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
Service | The Gospel
The gospel to me is simply irresistible.
– Blaise Pascal
Salvation | The Gospel
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
– Oswald Chambers
Salvation | The Gospel
The core and essence of the Gospel is its tremendous and glorious revelation of how deadly is God’s hatred of sin, so that He cannot stand having it in the same universe as Himself, and will go any length, and will pay any price, and will make any sacrifice, to master and abolish it, is set upon so doing in our hearts, thank God, as elsewhere.
– A. J. Gossip
The Gospel
One reason why women are forbidden to preach the gospel, is, that they would persuade without argument and reprove without giving offence.
– John Newton
Preaching | The Gospel
We are too much haunted by ourselves, projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel to rescue us from this selfishness. Redemption is this, to forget self in God.
– Frederick W. Robertson
The Gospel | Redemption
The idea of preaching the gospel to all nations alike, regardless of nationality, of internal divisions as to rank and color, complexion and religion, constituted the beginning of a new era in history. You cannot preach the gospel in its purity over the world, without proclaiming the doctrine of civil and religious liberty,–without overthrowing the barriers reared between nations and clans and classes of men,–without ultimately undermining the thrones of despots, and breaking off the shackles of slavery,–without making men everywhere free.
– Albert Barnes
The Gospel
The most solemn truth in the gospel is that the only thing Christ left down here is His blood.
– Dwight L. Moody
The Gospel
The Gospel, if it is really believed, removes neediness – the need to be constantly respected, appreciated, and well regarded; the need to have everything in your life go well; the need to have power over others. All of these great, deep needs continue to control you only because the concept of the glorious God delighting in you with all His being is just that – a concept and nothing more. Our hearts don’t believe it, so they operate in default mode. Paul is saying that if you want to really change, you must let the Gospel teach you – that is to train, discipline, coach you – over a period of time. You must let the Gospel argue with you. You must let the Gospel sink down deeply into your heart, until it changes your motivation and views and attitudes.
– Tim Keller
God | The Gospel | The Heart
The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.
– A. B. Simpson
Church | The Gospel
The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a Person who is the Truth.
– Alexander MacLaren
The Gospel
God’s people need to unashamedly and uncompromisingly stand on the Bible. We need to unashamedly proclaim a Christian worldview and the gospel, all the while giving answers for the hope we have.
– Ken Ham
The Bible | The Gospel
The Gospel is not good advice to be obeyed, it is good news to be believed.
– Harry Ironside
Salvation | The Gospel
The Gospel is neither religion nor irreligion – it is something else altogether. Religion makes law and moral obedience a means of salvation, while irreligion makes the individual a law to him – or herself. The Gospel, however, is that Jesus takes the law of God so seriously that He paid the penalty of disobedience, so we can be saved by sheer grace.
– Tim Keller
God | The Gospel | Religion
If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
– Martin Luther
Faith | Evangelism | The Gospel
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
Brokenness | Humility | The Gospel
The One who calls you to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature is the One who by your consent, goes into all the world and preaches the Gospel to every creature through you!
– Major Ian Thomas
Evangelism | The Gospel
The single most important thread in working through your disappointments is that your heart and mind ponder and grasp what the cross of Jesus Christ is all about. There is no pattern without the cross. There is no Good News without it. That is what the gospel is all about.
– Ravi Zacharias
The Heart | The Cross | The Gospel
Our religion is not Christianity so much as Christ. Our gospel is the knowledge, not of a system, but the saving knowledge of a personal Savior.
– James H. Aughey
The Gospel | Christ | Religion
What keeps the marriage going is your commitment to your spouse’s holiness.
– Tim Keller
The Gospel | Marriage
If the devil were wise enough and would stand by in silence and let the Gospel be preached, he would suffer less harm. For when there is no battle for the Gospel it rusts and it finds no cause and no occasion to show its vigor and power. Therefore, nothing better can befall the Gospel than that the world should fight it with force and cunning.
– Martin Luther
Satan | The Gospel
Where the Gospel is faithfully preached and affectionately believed, there is gradually wrought into the very features of people the stamp of the Son of man.
– James Stalker
The Gospel
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.
– Francois Fenelon
Preaching | The Gospel
If every Christian is already considered a missionary, then all can stay put where they are, and nobody needs to get up and go anywhere to preach the gospel. But if our only concern is to witness where we are, how will people in unevangelized areas ever hear the gospel? The present uneven distribution of Christians and opportunities to hear the gospel of Christ will continue on unchanged.
– Assorted Authors
Missions | The Gospel | Witnessing
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.
– Assorted Authors
Christianity | Freedom | The Gospel
The chief design of my life in the station wherein the good providence of God hath placed me, are, that mortification and universal holiness may be promoted in my own and in the hearts and ways of others, to the glory of God; that so the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be adorned in all things.
– John Owen
Holiness | The Gospel
The idea of preaching the gospel to all nations alike, regardless of nationality, of internal divisions as to rank and color, complexion and religion, constituted the beginning of a new era in history. You cannot preach the gospel in its purity over the world, without proclaiming the doctrine of civil and religious liberty,–without overthrowing the barriers reared between nations and clans and classes of men,–without ultimately undermining the thrones of despots, and breaking off the shackles of slavery,–without making men everywhere free.
– Albert Barnes
The Gospel
As Christ has a Gospel, Satan has a gospel too; the latter being a clever counterfeit of the former. So closely does the gospel of Satan resemble that which it parades, multitudes of the unsaved are deceived by it.
– A. W. Pink
Satan | The Gospel | Deception
The gospel is called a burden and a yoke, lest we presume; yet light and easy, lest we despair.
– Assorted Authors
Salvation | The Gospel
If you try to add to God’s salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God’s salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God’s salvation you haven’t believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.
– Tim Keller
The Gospel | Inspiration | Salvation
Without the Gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin. Without the Gospel we’re motivated through all sorts of awful fear and pride to change and it doesn’t really change our hearts; it just restrains our hearts.
– Tim Keller
The Gospel
When we are accused of preaching a Gospel of blood we proudly plead guilty to the charge for the only thing that gives life to our teaching and power to the Word of God is the fact that it is the blood which is the very life and power of the Gospel.
– M.R. DeHaan
The Gospel
The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches.
– Charles Hodge
The Gospel | Children
We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming pride, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God calls abominable? Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. The state of the world is more humiliating to our reason than the doctrines of the Gospel. A reflecting Christian sees more to excite his astonishment, and to exercise his faith, in the state of things between Temple Bar and St. Paul’s, than in what he reads from Genesis to Revelations.
– Richard Cecil
Pride | The Gospel | Providence
In religion our only hope is to live a life good enough to require God to bless us, so every instance of sin and repentance is therefore traumatic, unnatural and threatening. Only under great duress do religious people admit they have sinned, because their only hope is their moral goodness. In the Gospel the knowledge of our acceptance in Christ makes it easier to admit that we are flawed, because we know we won’t be cast off if we confess the true depths of our sinfulness. Our hope is in Christ’s righteousness, not our own, so it is not as traumatic to admit our weaknesses and lapses.
– Tim Keller
Christ | God | The Gospel | Religion | Repentance
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.
– Charles Spurgeon
Evangelism | Heaven | The Gospel
We trust that their hearts will be melted by that love, and that they’ll listen to the gospel.
– Ken Ham
Love | The Gospel
The law of God is what we must do; the gospel is what God will give.
– Martin Luther
The Gospel
Think of someone you know who’s not saved but you may be afraid to share the Gospel with that person. I’ve found a way that’s radically effective in training people to share the Gospel.
– Kirk Cameron
Evangelism | The Gospel
The more fully that the gospel is preached, in the grand old apostolic way, the more likely is it to accomplish the results which it did in the apostolic days.
– Horatius Bonar
Preaching | The Gospel
The gospel is the proclamation of free love; the revelation of the boundless charity of God. Nothing less than this will suit our world; nothing else is so likely to touch the heart, to go down to the lowest depths of depraved humanity, as the assurance that the sinner has been loved – loved by God, loved with a righteous love, loved with a free love that makes no bargain as to merit, or fitness, or goodness.
– Horatius Bonar
Salvation | The Gospel
It is encouraging that so many of our youth are not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. Like our forefathers, they know America is a Christian nation. It is a shame that our president and some of our other public officials do not share that view.
– Judge Roy Moore
America | The Gospel
The Gospel is good news of mercy to the undeserving. The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.
– John Stott
The Gospel | Mercy | The Cross
In the breath of a moment, we can be sharing the gospel and make a bridge to salvation.
– RM Harrington
Evangelism | The Gospel
A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men’s theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern accuracy, and fleshless definition. Proclaimed without tenderness, and argued without affection, the gospel from such men rather resembles a missile from a catapult than bread from a Father’s hand.
– Charles Spurgeon
Theology | The Gospel
The gospel alone is sufficient to rule the lives of Christians everywhere – any additional rules made to govern men’s conduct added nothing to the perfection already found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
– Assorted Authors
Christians | The Gospel
The gospel according to Jesus explicitly and unequivocally rules out easy-believism. To make all of our Lord’s difficult demands apply only to a higher class of Christians blunts the force of His entire message. It makes room for a cheap and meaningless faith – a faith that may be exercised with absolutely no impact on the fleshly life of sin. That is not saving faith.
– John MacArthur
The Gospel
But, though persecuting malice raged, yet the Gospel shone with resplendent brightness; and, firm as an impregnable rock, withstood the attacks of its boisterous enemies with success.
– John Foxe
Persecution | The Gospel | Enemies
The Gospel does not need defending. If Jesus Christ is not alive and cannot fight His own battles, then Christianity is in a bad state. But He is alive and we have only to preach His gospel in all its simplicity, and the power that goes with it will be evidence of its divinity.
– Charles Spurgeon
Christianity | The Gospel
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
– Augustine
Scripture | The Gospel | Selfishness
The gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.
– Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The Gospel
Paul stresses most emphatically in his letters that the gospel he preaches does not originate with man: it is not acquired wholesale from one man’s mind and retailed to the mind of others but is discovered through revelation.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit | The Gospel
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
– Francis Schaeffer
Church | The Gospel | Responsibility
It would have been well for the church of Christ, if the warnings of the Gospel had been as much studied as its promises.
– J. C. Ryle
The Gospel
For the Christian church (even in its recently popular seeker services) to ignore, euphemize, or otherwise mute the lethal reality of sin is to cut the nerve of the gospel. For the sober truth is that without full disclosure on sin, the gospel of grace becomes impertinent, unnecessary, and finally uninteresting.
– Cornelius Plantinga
Sin | The Gospel
The Gospel that represents Jesus Christ, not as a system of truth to be received, into the mind, as I should receive a system of philosophy, or astronomy, but it represents Him as a real, living, mighty Savior, able to save me now.
– Catherine Booth
Salvation | The Gospel
But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.
– Origen
Evangelism | The Gospel
We know exactly what needs to be done to advance the Gospel and fulfill the Great Commission. The question is Will we do it?
– David Jeremiah
Evangelism | The Gospel
The gospel we preach must not be just something we hear from men or read from books or even conceived through our meditation. Unless it is delivered to us by God, it can serve no spiritual utility.
– Watchman Nee
The Holy Spirit | Preaching | The Gospel
Avoid a sugared Gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek that Gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and wounds and hacks and even kills, for that is the Gospel that makes alive again. And when you have found it, give good heed to it. Let it enter into your inmost being. As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his Gospel soak into your soul.
– Charles Spurgeon
The Gospel
Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
– William Gurnall
Faith | The Gospel | Justification
The doctrine of the gospel as in the person of Christ is a lost thing in the present day, because it is always presented on the side that meets man, and not God’s side.
– G.V. Wigram
The Gospel
Christianity may produce agitation, anger, tumult as at Ephesus; but the diffusion of the pure gospel of Christ, and the establishment of the institutions of honesty and virtue, at whatever cost, is a blessing to mankind.
– Albert Barnes
Christianity | The Gospel
The law, by which God rules us, is as dear to Him as the gospel by which He saves us.
– William Secker
The Gospel
If your former refusals of Christ have not yet been malicious and deceitful, but rather temerarious and inadvertent, which though a grievous sin, yet not unpardonable: and now, since Christ does not yet exclude you from the gospel offer, why will you exclude yourselves?
– Ralph Erskine
The Gospel
The core and essence of the Gospel is its tremendous and glorious revelation of how deadly is God’s hatred of sin, so that He cannot stand having it in the same universe as Himself, and will go any length, and will pay any price, and will make any sacrifice, to master and abolish it, is set upon so doing in our hearts, thank God, as elsewhere.
– A.J. Gossip
The Gospel
Lord, you don’t really mean that we shall preach the Gospel to those men that murdered you, to those men that took your life?” “Yes,” says the Lord, “go and preach the Gospel to those Jerusalem sinners.” I can imagine Him saying: “Go and hunt up that man that put the cruel crown of thorns upon My brow, and preach the Gospel to him. Tell him he shall have a crown in My kingdom without a thorn in it
– Dwight L. Moody
The Gospel
I remember one who spoke on the missionary question one day saying, “The great question is not, ‘Will not the heathen be saved if we do not send them the gospel?’ but ‘Are we saved ourselves if we do not send them the gospel?’
– Charles Spurgeon
Missions | Salvation | The Gospel
The gospel comes to the sinner at once with nothing short of complete forgiveness as the starting-point of all his efforts to be holy. It does not say, “Go and sin no more, and I will not condemn thee.” It says at once, “Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more.”
– Horatius Bonar
Salvation | The Gospel
The law breaks the hard heart, but the gospel melts it. A stone duly broken may be still a hard stone; but the gospel melts.
– Ralph Erskine
The Gospel
While I have no problem with the church adapting to the culture, we must ensure that we remain painstakingly true to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that we remain obedient servants to His truths.
– Jerry Falwell
Perseverance | The Gospel
Christianity may produce agitation, anger, tumult as at Ephesus; but the diffusion of the pure gospel of Christ, and the establishment of the institutions of honesty and virtue, at whatever cost, is a blessing to mankind.
– Albert Barnes
Christianity | The Gospel
Part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women.
– William Lane Craig
The Gospel