Quotes from Tony Evans

I must confess that it is a lot easier for me as a pastor to preach about prayer than to spend that same amount of time engaged in it.

The Bible is pregnant with politics. You cannot read the Bible from Genesis through Revelation and go through too many chapters that are not involving politics.

The truth is an objective standard by which reality is measured; it's God's point of view on any subject.

Every four years, the eyes of America become riveted on the national election returns. But God's first concern during any political season is not the same as our first concern - it is not about what is happening, or going to happen, in the White House. God's first concern is what is happening, or not happening, in His house.

When families break down, you have a lot of repercussion from that, from poverty to crime to lack of discipline.

As God is continually being marginalized and dismissed in the culture, you will continue to see evil proliferate.

Disciples are people who operate under the rule of God, and if we're not operating under the rule of God, we can't expect the broader society to take God seriously.

Churches are having a limited impact on society because they fail to understand that the goal of the church is not the church itself but the kingdom.

Prayer is the means by which God has established for God's people to invite the spiritual into the physical, and the invisible realm into the visible realm.

Don't magnify your problems, magnify your God...he's got you covered.

Religious programs, activities have often blurred and sidelined the centrality of the cross - causing religion to be empty of its core.

Government can run and fund programs, but it can't love, it can't show compassion, and it can't embrace. Our faith is designed to have social implications, not just heavenly ones. The spiritual and the social must be connected.