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The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented. -- Edward Irving
In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution. -- Arthur Peacocke
Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love. -- H. L. Mencken
If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it. -- Billy Graham
The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to be successful. -- Henri Nouwen
Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores. -- Anne Lamott
You can't be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic concerns than tax cuts for wealthy people. -- Jim Wallis
Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change. -- Tony Campolo
When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic. -- Tony Campolo
I just find the evangelical church too, well, restrictive. But the School of Practical Philosophy is nonconfrontational. We believe there are many forms of Scripture. What is true is true and will never change, whether it's in the Bible or in Shakespeare. It's about oneness. -- Hugh Jackman
Evangelical Christian politicians who cheat often raise questions about hypocrisy, especially if they preached piety in public and disregarded it in private. When Jewish politicians fall, they shatter different expectations, particularly that American Jews need to work together to preserve respectability and fireproof against anti-Semitism. -- Jodi Kantor
I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the church on Sunday morning, you still had to be 'saved' on Sunday night. I wanted to be saved, but I did not think you should fake it. -- Stanley Hauerwas
The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster. -- William P. Young
Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel. -- V. Raymond Edman
Evangelical Christians are not sincere. It is all about making money. -- Frank Schaeffer
Evangelicalism can only remain evangelical if it is passionately serious about truth and theology. -- Os Guinness
Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we dont teach the confessions and doctrine. -- J. I. Packer
Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine. -- J. I. Packer
Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism. -- Mark Tooley
A 2008 poll of 35,000 Americans revealed that 57% of Evangelical church attenders believe that many religions can lead to eternal life. -- Robert Jeffress
Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain. -- Tullian Tchividjian
In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing! -- Tony Campolo
Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored. -- Tony Campolo
I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I held the Evangelical belief. -- George Eliot
The greatest heresy in the American Evangelical and Protestant church is that if you pray and ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart, He will definitely come in! -- Paul Washer
Evangelical agencies with ready funding may have too little depth and vision to cope with the current conflict. God's kingdom is built not on perpetual motion, one-liners, and flashbulbs but on Christ. -- Carl F. H. Henry
What suggests to non-Evangelical scholars that the resurrection narratives contain legendary accounts? First there is a variety of apparent contradictions in the stories which in any ancient narrative would have to arouse the historian's suspicion. -- Robert M. Price
The Evangelical is not afraid of facts, for he knows that all facts are God's facts; nor is he afraid of thinking, for he knows that all truth is God's truth, and right reason cannot endanger sound faith. -- J. I. Packer
You've got these twenty million people who call themselves the Evangelical Christians who will put their hand up and say, I believe in the devil, I'm against abortion and gay rights, and we have to blow up the world. It's frightening. -- Jeanette Winterson
I see apostasy in many ways occurring in Evangelical churches that really aren't teaching the truth of God's word. I do believe that some churches have become entertainment centers and a teaching a type of prosperity Gospel rather than teaching God's word. -- Robert Jeffress
In certain ways, I think the work in the Evangelical community has been the most interesting and the most promising. Partly because Evangelical congregations may be harder to convince about issues but, on the other hand, are more likely to do something about it. -- Bill McKibben
...secular journalists... tend to accept uncritically the oft - repeated Evangelical Protestant and Conservative Roman Catholic definitions that the Bible is anti - gay. If these people were honest, they would have to admit that the Bible is also pro - slavery and anti - women. -- John Shelby Spong
I'm your full blown charismatic evangelical freak daddy. -- Stephen Baldwin
I don't think I am evangelical in my work. -- J. K. Rowling
The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical. -- Alexander Duff
The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind. -- Mark Noll
When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture. -- Tom Perrotta
I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion. -- Tony Campolo
I think it goes back to the fact that the evangelical community often does not have a biblical vision of God. -- Tony Campolo
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender. -- Brian Eno
An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God. -- Tony Campolo
While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships. -- Tom Brokaw
When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves. -- Tony Campolo
I'm grateful for the evangelical resurgence we've seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God's doing. -- Billy Graham
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How I wish that more men who claim to be evangelical really believed the Word of God--that it IS the Word of God, that it is God speaking. -- J. Vernon McGee
A significant fraction of evangelical voters appear more likely to ignore the candidates' specific economic and foreign policy platforms in favor of concerns about gay marriage or abortion. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church. -- Paul Stanley
The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim, but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian. -- Trevor Phillips
I think there are other issues that the Democrats could use to rally evangelicals. There are a lot of us, for instance, who believe that the Bible calls us to be environmentally responsible. -- Tony Campolo
When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that's a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that. -- Jim Wallis
The two hot issues are the gay issue and the abortion issue. These are the two defining issues in the evangelical community these days. I'm sure that these hot buttons will be pushed, time and time again. -- Tony Campolo
Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. -- John Green
As everyone knows, there is only one way to fry chicken correctly. Unfortunately, most people think their method is best, but most people are wrong. Mine is the only right way, and on this subject I feel almost evangelical. -- Laurie Colwin
Labels such as, 'evangelical', 'fundamental', 'charismatic', 'liberal' contribute to polarization and produce a climate of implied or outspoken distrust. Respectful dialogue becomes virtually impossible. What we desperately need to offset this disunity and distrust is a new and cleansing theology of communication. -- Robert H. Schuller
I embrace the term 'evangelical,' if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a hopeful outlook. That's a beautiful sort of thing. -- Rob Bell
Now, there are people that are Christian artists, because they have a purpose to be evangelical for Christ. I don't feel I've been called to that yet. Now, that could change. There's no telling what kind of call God will put on my life. -- Scott Stapp
I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us. -- Tony Campolo
I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit. -- Bill McCartney
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For a while... to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don't want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen... I don't want to divide the very people I am trying to reach. -- Joel Osteen
There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners. -- Peter Ustinov
Democrats are people who raise your taxes and spend your money on weird stuff. They steal your guns, and they spit on your faith. And because the Democratic Party was taken over by the aggressive secular guys, they became hostile not just to conservative Catholics and evangelical Christians, but Orthodox Jews and Muslims and Mormons. -- Grover Norquist
I'm kind of an evangelical atheist. -- Brian Eno
I have also won much evangelical support. -- Donald Trump
God transcends even the undertakings of evangelical theologians. -- Karl Barth
The problem is not liberal politicians, its evangelical preachers. -- Paul Washer
I'm evangelical on the subject of some chefs and writers. -- Anthony Bourdain
All creeds are fallible and uncertain evidences of evangelical piety. -- Daniel Webster
It's secret that evangelical Christians are critical players in Republican primaries. -- Michel Martin
I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood. -- Andy Serkis
Christians are supposed to be evangelicals. And I am. I am evangelical. -- Jimmy Carter
To call a man evangelical who is not evangelistic is an utter contradiction. -- G. Campbell Morgan
A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim." -- Hendrik Hertzberg
I am a bit odd. I am somewhat evangelical. But I am not crazy. -- Gordon Gee
The therapeutic concerns of the culture too often set the agenda for evangelical preaching. -- Albert Mohler
If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature. -- Richard Dawkins
J.C. Ryle is an evangelical champion...One of the bravest and best of men. -- Charles Spurgeon
I'm not an evangelical, because that means that I exclude the Catholics and main-liners, and Orthodox. -- Bill Bright
In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo. -- Tony Campolo
Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking. -- J. I. Packer
From today onward, you will learn how to become evangelical about the many ways you help people. -- Chris Murray
The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched. -- Allen W. Wood
Did evangelical Christians mistake Donald Trump's hairpiece for a halo, while ignoring the obvious signs that he worships Mammon? -- Michael R. Burch
During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective,... -- Preston Manning
Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions. -- Max Lucado
A biblical standard of sexuality is not merely a test of evangelical consistency. It is a test of evangelical authenticity and integrity. -- Albert Mohler
It's very hard to find an evangelical person under 45, let alone on some of the Christian college campuses, who has any tolerance for Donald Trump. -- David Brooks
Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers. -- D. A. Carson
I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian. -- Mallory Ortberg
I am saying that there is no salvation apart from Jesus; that's my evangelical mindset. However, I am not convinced that Jesus only lives in Christians -- Tony Campolo
In the private arena, you can do whatever you wish, and people do. These crazy evangelical preachers get on the radio and TV and say incredible things. -- John Shelby Spong
Ted Cruz is tailored his message for a specific conservative evangelical. I think it's limited his appeal. I think he has the ability to appeal to everybody. -- Rush Limbaugh
Ted Cruz is tailored his message for a specific conservative evangelical. I think it's limited his appeal. I think he has the ability to appeal to everybody. -- Rush Limbaugh
Donald Trump did question Ted Cruz's evangelical credentials. Remember when Trump said, "How can somebody who lies as much as Ted Cruz lies be an evangelical Christian?" -- Rush Limbaugh
Donald Trump did question Ted Cruz's evangelical credentials. Remember when Trump said, "How can somebody who lies as much as Ted Cruz lies be an evangelical Christian?" -- Rush Limbaugh
I wish that those who believe in the doctrines of grace would be more gracious. That's all I'd say... I'm an evangelical. I believe the doctrines of grace. -- Rick Warren
North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the mailing list. -- Frank Schaeffer
An evangelical minister has had to resign after pictures surfaced showing him in a hot tub with two women. He claimed it was just a baptism gone terribly wrong. -- Jay Leno
Concerning the press and politicians, the hatred for all such evangelical groups is not because of their real or fancied blunders but because they have reintroduced biblical morality into politics. -- R.J. Rushdoony
If you ask people in England where does Tom Wright sit on the theological spectrum, they say, "Well he's an evangelical of course," as though, come on, get used to it. -- N. T. Wright
It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it. -- Desiderius Erasmus
When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth. -- Patricia Cornwell
Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different... More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history. -- Pat Robertson
To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn't soon cometh. -- Kathleen Parker
We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today--even in the evangelical church--over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it. -- Alistair Begg
We are Christians because we find our identity, life, and purpose in Christ. We are evangelical because we believe the gospel and esteem it as the great central truth of God's revelation to men. -- Paul Washer
I have no evangelical feelings about art at all. I despise art education. Art doesn't lend itself to education. There is no knowledge there. It's a set of propositions about how things should look. -- Dave Hickey
I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again - their faith infused every aspect of my childhood. I'll probably spend most of my life working through that. -- Craig Thompson
It takes more than a busy church, a friendly church, or even an evangelical church to impact a community for Christ. It must be a church ablaze, led by leaders who are ablaze for God. -- Wesley L Duewel

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