Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes

The greatest religions convert the world through stories.

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

Any investigator worthy of baptism becomes a convert worthy of saving.

After several different marriages and failures, my mom started turning to the Lord. So she brought us to church. We got involved with the youth programs, and I got on fire a couple months in, like, 'Wow, this feels good.' At 10 years old, you don't know. It felt good.

I stay in church, listening to the Word.

Our tendency is to be converted to church and not to Christ.

Evangelism is when the Gospel, which is good news, is preached or presented to all people.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

I'm not sure that I would have become a Christian if I had continued to live in Hollywood because the notion wouldn't have occurred to me.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

When I was a young man, barely 18, I discovered Jesus Christ as my personal saviour, and for six months I told my mother she was damned to hell. That wasn't much fun. I abandoned it.

When I left boxing in 1977 to be a preacher, I couldn't make a fist after I learned about Jesus Christ.

In spite of my surroundings, of my education, I had no love for God.

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.

I don't think we should proselytize a particular religion.

My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a story about Noah's ark, you best know each tiger is going to be having their own little conversation and narrative.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

When I preaches, I has just one text to preach from, an' I always preaches from this one. My text is, 'When I found Jesus.'