A good example is like a bell that calls many to church.
Unknown

For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him.
Oswald Chambers

When I was a new minister, a seasoned minister came into my office. She said, “How’s your day going?” I said, “I am so frustrated. I have the newsletter to work on, my sermon to write, and all these other things to do- but people keep calling with all these interruptions.” She said, “The interruptions are your ministry. The rest is just paperwork.”
Michelle Crouch

Good example is half a sermon.
Unknown

I feel a tension within me. I have only a number of years left for the active ministry. Why not use them well? Yet one word spoken with a pure heart is worth thousands spoken in a state of spiritual turmoil. Time given to inner renewal is never wasted. God is never in a hurry.
Henri Nouwen

We aren’t only called to share the gospel. We are called to show the gospel.
James E. Biles, Sr.

We must not be afraid to minister to one another.  Even if the sheep in need is the one in the lead.
Jan Winebrenner & Debra Frazier

Every life without Christ is a mission field;
every life with Christ is a missionary.
Unknown

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does.  Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
D. L. Moody

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
John Wesley

One day a lady criticized D. L. Moody for his methods of evangelism in attempting to win people to the Lord.  Moody’s reply was “I agree with you.  I don’t like the way I do it either.  Tell me, how do you do it?”  The lady replied, “I don’t do it.”  Moody retorted, “Then I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it.”
D. L. Moody

Be careful how you live; you will be the only Bible some people ever read.
William Toms

Father, strip away from me whatever is blocking people’s view of You in my life.
Tim Walter

Wherever the Gospel is preached, no matter how crudely, there are bound to be results.
Billy Graham

Christianity must mean everything to us before it can mean anything to others.
Donald Soper

He preaches well who lives well. That’s all the divinity I know.
Miguel de Cervantes

The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick along side it.
D. L. Moody

The most important missionary journey a person can make is to walk next door.
Unknown

I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I’d rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.
Edgar Guest

You can never speak to the wrong person about Christ.
Unknown

Preach the gospel everyday; if necessary, use words.
Francis of Assisi

What other people think of me is becoming less and less important; what they think of Jesus because of me is critical.
Cliff Richard

Christians think they are prosecuting attorneys or judges, when, in realty, God has called all of us to be witnesses.
Warren Wiersbe

Id’ rather see a sermon than hear one any day;
Id’ rather one should walk with me than merely show the way.
The eye’s a better pupil and more willing than the ear;
Fine counsel is confusing, but example’s always clear.
And the best of all preachers are the men who live their creeds,
For to see the good in action is what everybody needs.
I can soon learn how to do it if you’ll let me see it done;
I can watch your hands in action, but your tongue too fast may run.
And the lectures you deliver may be very wise and true,
But I’d rather get my lesson by observing what you do.
For I may misunderstand you and the high advice you give,
But there’s no misunderstanding how you act and how you live.
The Lookout

Had an hour’s conversation with a gentleman about new birth in Jesus Christ.  Breakfasted with some gentlemen in the great cabin, who were very civil and let me put in a word for God.  About eleven at night went and sat down among the sailors in the steerway and reasoned with them concerning the Christian life.  Gained an opportunity, by walking at night on the deck, to talk closely to the chief mate and one of the sergeants of the regiment and hope my words were not altogether in vain.
George Whitefield (as he noted in his journal the contacts he made on shipboard)

Jesus said, “Go,” but the church through selfishness and indifference has refused to obey.  We try to substitute “write,” “send,” or “give,” for “go.”  We try to salve our conscience by turning over the task of “going” to someone else and giving languidly for their support.  Of course, we must send where we cannot go.  But because we can’t go across the world does not excuse us for refusing to go across the street.
R. C. Foster

Half the people who have ever lived are alive today, and most of them do not know Christ.
The Life Application Study Bible

If you are a baptized Christian, you are already a minister.  Whether you are ordained or not is immaterial.  No matter how you react, the statement remains true.  You may be surprised, alarmed, pleased, antagonized, suspicious, acquiescent, scornful, or enraged.  Nevertheless, you are a minister of Christ.
Francis O. Ayres

Father, strip away from me whatever is blocking people’s view of You in my life.
Tim Walter

There is no impact without contact.  Evangelism is a contact sport.
Douglas M. Cecil

Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him.
Martin Luther

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry?
Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die?
Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand?
Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned?
Leonard Ravenhill

Witnessing is not a spare-time occupation or a once-a-week activity.  It must be a quality of life.  You don’t go witnessing, you are a witness.
Dan Greene

You are a Christian today because somebody cared.  Now it’s your turn.
Warren W. Wiersbe

Example is more forceful than precept.  People look at me six days a week to see what I mean on the seventh day.
Pastor Richard Cecil

They tell me I rub the fur the wrong way.  I don’t.  Let the cat turn around!
Billy Sunday

As a Christian, I hope I can lead the kind of life that makes others look at me and say, “What’s missing in my life that she has?”  That’s a greater testimony than anything I can say.
Marilyn Quayle

Example is not the main thing in influencing others.  It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer

The world wants to see demonstrators of the faith rather than defenders of the faith.
Unknown

Never make a principle out of your experience; let God be as original with other people as he is with you.
Oswald Chambers

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a great deal about their acts.
Horace Mann