Quotes from Robert E. Coleman

And let us remember, too, that one does not have to have the prestige of the world to be greatly used in the Kingdom of God.

We must learn this lesson again today. There can be no dillydallying around with the commands of Christ. We are engaged in warfare, the issues of which are life and death, and every day that we are indifferent to our responsibilities is a day lost to the cause of Christ.

Jesus did not urge his disciples to commit their lives to a doctrine, but to a person who was the doctrine, and only as they continued in his Word could they know the truth ( John 8:31–32).

It is good to tell people what we mean, but it is infinitely better to show them. People are looking for a demonstration, not an explanation.

One living sermon is worth a hundred explanations.

People are looking for a demonstration, not an explanation.

He was "the Saviour of the world" (John 4:42). God wanted all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. To that end Jesus gave himself to provide a salvation from all sin for all men. In that he died for one, he died for all. Contrary to our superficial thinking, there never was a distinction in his mind between home and foreign missions. To Jesus it was all world evangelism.

Having called his men, Jesus made a practice of being with them. This was the essence of his training program—just letting his disciples follow him.

Knowledge was gained by association before it was understood by explanation.

Followers must have leaders, and this means that before much can be done with the church membership something will have to be done with the church officials.

We must decide where we want our ministry to count—in the momentary applause of popular recognition or in the reproduction of our lives in a few chosen people who will carry on our work after we have gone.

Jesus did not have the time nor the desire to scatter himself on those who wanted to make their own terms of discipleship.

Evangelism is not an optional accessory to our life. It is the heartbeat of all that we are called to be and do. It is the commission of the church that gives meaning to all else that is undertaken in the name of Christ.

Love is the only way to win the free response of men, and this is possible only by the presence of Christ within the heart.

We have not been called to hold the fort, but to storm the heights.

Through their word" he expected others to believe in him ( John 17:20), and these in turn to pass the word along to others, until in time the world might know who he was and what he came to do ( John 17:21, 23).

There is no place in the Kingdom for a slacker, for such an attitude not only precludes any growth in grace and knowledge but also destroys any usefulness on the world battlefield of evangelism.

His concern was not with programs to reach the multitudes, but with men whom the multitudes would follow.

They saw how their Master denied himself many of the comforts and pleasures of the world and became a servant among them. They saw how the things they cherished—physical satisfaction, popular acclaim, prestige—he refused; while the things which they sought to escape—poverty, humiliation, sorrow, and even death—he accepted willingly for their sake.

Christian disciples are sent men and women—sent out in the same work of world evangelism to which the Lord was sent, and for which he gave his life.

Only this morning I heard a radio speaker make the observation that, in most matters, we move in either of two directions: from words to things, or from things to words. That is to say, if we do not make the journey from theories and ideals to concrete situations, then the concrete situations will be lost under a smog of words.

There is grace for everything: grace to come and grace to go, grace to speak and grace to keep silent, grace to mourn and grace to dance, grace to weep and grace to laugh, grace to pack and grace to unpack, grace to be sick and grace to heal, grace to plant and grace to harvest, grace to tear down and grace to build up, grace to love and grace to hate, grace to live and grace to die. From beginning to end, life becomes a rhapsody of grace. Even the desire for grace comes by grace.

if we do not make the journey from theories and ideals to concrete situations, then the concrete situations will be lost under a smog of words.

Victory is never won by the multitudes.