April 27, 1934 - April 12, 2013
Evangelist and Author
From New York City
Served in many settings as a traveling preacher
Affiliation: Evangelical
"The temptation of the age is to look good without being good."
June 18, 1926 - November 13, 2010
Astronomer who determined the first reasonably accurate values for the Hubble constant and the age of the universe
From Iowa City, Iowa
Served in Pasadena, California
Affiliation: Christian
"We can't understand the universe in any clear way without the supernatural."
November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018
Evangelist
From North Carolina
Served around the world
Affiliation: Baptist
"During all my years as an evangelist, my message has always been the Gospel of Christ. It is not a Western religion, nor is it a message of one culture or political system. … It is a message of life and hope for all the world."
December 11, 1918 - August 3, 2008
Writer and Historian
From Kislovodsk, Russian
Served in Germany and Russia
Affiliation: Russian Orthodox
"This is certainly true. Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul. That which is called humanism, but what would be more correctly called irreligious anthropocentrism, cannot yield answers to the most essential questions of our life. We have arrived at an intellectual chaos."
February 4, 1906 - April 9, 1945
German Lutheran Pastor, Theologian and Anti-Nazi Dissident
From Wrocław, Poland
Served in Germany
Affiliation: Confessing Church
Death: Executed by hanging as the Nazi regime collapsed
"Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the beginning, and yet knowing that he is in the middle, coming from the beginning and going towards the end."
February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865
16th President of the United States
From Hodgenville, Kentucky
Served in Illinois and Washington, D.C.
Affiliation: Christian
"In regard to this Great Book… it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are to be found portrayed in it."
December 18, 1807 - November 2, 1874
Evangelist, Writer and Founder of the Five Points Mission in 1850, a mission to the slum area in New York City
From New York City
Served in New York City, New York
Affiliation: Methodist
"God's time is now. The question is not, ‘What have I been?’ or ‘What do I expect to be?’ but, ‘Am I now trusting in Jesus to save to the uttermost?’ If so, I am now saved from all sin."
July 13, 1806- August 29, 1872
British Consul, explorer who helped find Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls would later be discovered, and founder of Kerem Avraham, a farm just outside the Old City
From London, England
Served in Jerusalem
Affiliation: Evangelical Anglican
"At length I had been permitted by God’s good providence to traverse the territory of Moses and the chosen people antecedent to the writing of the Pentateuch, when they were warring upon Ammon and Moab. How solemn are the sensations derived from pondering upon periods of such very hoar antiquity…”
September 27, 1805 - March 10, 1898
Founder of Orphanages and Schools through England and Founding Member of the Plymouth Brethren
From Prussia
Served in Bristol, England
Affiliation: Plymouth Brethren
“It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.”
December 13, 1804 - December 31, 1891
First African Anglican Bishop in Nigeria
From Osogun
Served in Niger Territory
Affiliation: Anglican
"Imitate Christ, then, to reach the understanding, and not to move the feelings only; speak to the people as they are able to bear it; speak to them with the simplicity as to children."
February 21, 1801 - August 11, 1890
Minister and Leader of the Oxford Movement
From London, England
Served in London, England
Affiliation: Anglican
"A religious mind is ever looking out of itself, is ever recalling to itself Him on whom it depends, and who is the centre of all truth and good... The dividing line between God and the world goes through each man's heart. The worldly man is one whose heart is so earthbound that he has forgotten that he is made for heaven... The sinner would not enjoy heaven if he went there; not til he has turned from his sin and is once more looking towards God."
August 17, 1761 - June 9, 1834
Missionary, founder of first college in India and founding member of Baptist Missionary Society
From Northamptonshire, England
Served in Serampore, India
Affiliation: Particular Baptist
"You have been saying much about Dr. Carey and his work. When I am gone, say nothing about Dr. Carey; speak about Dr. Carey's Saviour."
August 29, 1792 - August 16, 1875
Pastor, Educator, Theologian
From Warren, Connecticut
Served in Oberlin, Ohio
Affiliation: Congregational
"A revival may be expected when Christians have a spirit of prayer for a revival. That is, when they pray as if their hearts were set upon it. When Christians have the spirit of prayer for a revival. When they go about groaning out their hearts desire. When they have real travail of soul."
February 14, 1760 - March 26, 1831
Preacher and Founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME)
From Sussex County, Delaware
Served in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Affiliation: African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME)
"My sins were a heavy burden. I was tempted to believe there was no mercy for me. I cried to the Lord both night and day. One night I thought hell would be my portion. I cried unto Him who delighteth to hear the prayers of a poor sinner; and all of a sudden my dungeon shook, my chains flew off, and glory to God, I cried. My soul was filled. I cried, enough for me--the Saviour died. Now my confidence was strengthened that the Lord, for Christ's sake, had heard my prayers, and pardoned all my sins."
September 24, 1759 - November 1, 1836
Pastor and a Founder of the Church Missionary Society
From Berkshire, England
Served in Cambridge
Affiliation: Anglican
"By constantly meditating on the goodness of God and on our great deliverance from that punishment which our sins have deserved, we are brought to feel our vileness and utter unworthiness; and while we continue in this spirit of self-degradation, everything else will go on easily. We shall find ourselves advancing in our course; we shall feel the presence of God; we shall experience His love; we shall live in the enjoyment of His favour and in the hope of His glory"
August 24, 1759 - July 29, 1833
Politician who single-handedly abolished Great Britain's Slave Trade
From Kingston upon Hull, Great Britain
Served in London, England
Affiliation: Anglican
"Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized… because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though its attackers’ arguments were deeply flawed."
October 9, 1755 - August 25, 1825
President of the Triennial Convention, the First Nationwide Baptist Association. Also President of Furman University, the South's First Baptist College and named after him posthumously.
From Esopus, New York
Served in Charleston, South Carolina
Affiliation: Baptist
"Consider what multitudes around you need converting grace; and what a change will soon be made in their state and circumstances as well as in your own, when they, with you, will be arrested by the strong hand of death, and summoned to the bar of God."
January 4, 1746 – April 19, 1813
Physician, Politician, Social Reformer, Humanitarian, and Educator
From Byberry, Philadelphia
Served in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Affiliation: Episcopal
“The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty; and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments....We waste so much time and money in punishing crimes, and take so little pains to prevent them. We profess to be republicans, and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government, that is, the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity, by means of the Bible; for this divine book, above all others favors that equality among mankind, that respect for just laws.”
August 20, 1745 - March 31, 1816
Bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Leader in the Second Great Awakening and Founder of several Schools
From Hamstead Bridge, Staffordshire, England
Served in England and America
Affiliation: Methodist
"Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honor? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No: I am going to live to God, and to bring others so to do."
(May 13, 1742 – July 28, 1823)
Pastor, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and Founder of Ohio University
From Killingly, Connecticut
Served in Hamilton, Massachusetts and the Northwest Territory
Affiliation: Congregational
"It is not possible, in the nature of things, that human laws, or principles of honor, can be adequate substitutes for religion. … Infidelity is a formidable enemy to the true principles of liberty. It erases from their foundation the main pillars that can support a free government. Freedom deigns not to dwell with general immorality: It cannot be enjoyed without virtue, nor can virtue be maintained without religion."
