Top 40 K.P. Yohannan Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The secret of following God’s will is wrapped in rejecting the good for God’s best.”

— K.P. Yohannan

2. “I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love.”

— K.P. Yohannan

3. “A tiny group of believers who have the gospel keep mumbling it over and over to themselves. Meanwhile, millions who have never heard it once fall into the flames of eternal hell without ever hearing the salvation story.”

— K.P. Yohannan

4. “We must pay a price to touch godliness through daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross.”

— K.P. Yohannan

5. “The most important factor in abandoning our thoughts is to look in the Bible and see what God says about a matter. Then we must determine to act on His Word rather than on our own thoughts or those the devil may whisper into our minds.”

— K.P. Yohannan

6. “The most unhappy people in the world are the ones who live only for themselves.”

— K.P. Yohannan

7. “Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons.”

— K.P. Yohannan

8. “When our service for the Lord becomes so busy that we forget the Lord Himself, it is time to stop everything and seek Him.”

— K.P. Yohannan

9. “I believe the enemy has numerous tactics to keep us from praying because he knows that it is the greatest way for the kingdom of God to expand.”

— K.P. Yohannan

10. “Since when has obedience to Christ and His Gospel become optional to Christianity?”

— K.P. Yohannan

11. “If something fit in with what God had said to me, then I considered it. If not – no matter how attractive it appeared – I refused. The secret of following God’s will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God’s best.”

— K.P. Yohannan

12. “In order to plant the Gospel, we must take risk.”

— K.P. Yohannan

13. “Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.”

— K.P. Yohannan

14. “Not one was willing to break out of that velvet cage of comfort and convenience to begin a radical lifestyle lived from an inner reality.”

— K.P. Yohannan

15. “To look into the sad eyes of a hungry child or see the wasted life of a drug addict is to see only the evidence of Satan’s hold on this world. All bad things, whether in Asia or America, are his handiwork.”

— K.P. Yohannan

16. “Neglecting to bathe the ministry in prayer leaves us just workers, not worshipers. When we unite in prayer, there is incredible power.”

— K.P. Yohannan

17. “If you want to meet the needs of the poor in this world, there is no better place to start than by preaching the Gospel.”

— K.P. Yohannan

18. “Every truth in this world stretched beyond its limits will become a false doctrine.”

— K.P. Yohannan

19. “Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?”

— K.P. Yohannan

20. “Maybe it doesn’t seem like anyone ever watches or appreciates you. Maybe no one on earth understands you. But your King is always watching you. Do it all for Him.”

— K.P. Yohannan

21. “Faith deals exclusively with believing God and His Word.”

— K.P. Yohannan

22. “It is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under God’s authority.”

— K.P. Yohannan

23. “My plea to the Body of Christ is while we must do all we can to meet the needs of the suffering and dying millions, we must not see these activities as a substitute for evangelism and establishing churches among the unreached.”

— K.P. Yohannan

24. “Yet so often it seems that victory eludes us. It is when our self-confidence is finally destroyed and is replaced with dependence upon God that we have victory.”

— K.P. Yohannan

25. “To expect to continue controlling the use of money and the ministry overseas from our foreign-based mission board is an extension of colonialism. It adds an unbiblical element, which only humiliates and weakens the national missionaries in the long run. Christians need to learn that they are not giving their money to national workers, but God’s money to His work overseas.”

— K.P. Yohannan

26. “Every Christian in America has some minimal responsibility to get involved in helping the poor brethren in the church in other countries.”

— K.P. Yohannan

27. “All too often, it seems, we’re willing to be students of Christianity rather than disciples of Christ.”

— K.P. Yohannan

28. “Why do we insist on building the largest and most impressive structures in our city when people on the other side of town are hungry, jobless and worshipping in storefronts?”

— K.P. Yohannan

29. “The lesson is obvious. True missionaries concentrate on doing the work of Mark 16:15 rather than operating social-welfare programs. True missionaries serve the message of Christ, not the institutions of the church.”

— K.P. Yohannan

30. “Real Christians accept suffering as a normal part of following Christ, just as mothers accept labor as a normal part of delivering a baby. “No pain, no gain” applies to world evangelism as well as exercise programs! Until we can accept suffering, sacrifice and self-denial as routine and normal, we will never see the Great Commission fulfilled in our generation.”

— K.P. Yohannan

31. “In the human heart there is a built-in obsolescence factor. It does not matter how powerful and influential you are, how much education you have, how selfcontrolled or holy you consider yourself – your heart, if you do not guard it, will break down.”

— K.P. Yohannan

32. “To obey the Lord unseen – in secret – is the foundation of genuine godly service.”

— K.P. Yohannan

33. “The spirit of submission is choosing His way over ours for His sake.”

— K.P. Yohannan

34. “Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most of Asia.”

— K.P. Yohannan

35. “How many more cars, clothes, toys and trinkets do we really need before we wake up and realize that half the world goes to bed every night with empty stomachs and naked bodies?”

— K.P. Yohannan

36. “The single most important hindrance to world evangelization right now is the lack of total involvement by the body of Christ.”

— K.P. Yohannan

37. “Americans are more than aware of their affluence- they almost seem to despise it at times.”

— K.P. Yohannan

38. “As long as Christian life remains our life we will not understand the Christ of the New Testament. You are not your own.”

— K.P. Yohannan

39. “No matter what Jesus faced, He lived by what He knew about Himself, not by what others thought or said about Him.”

— K.P. Yohannan

40. “Prayer need not be an activity we engage in for only an hour each morning. Rather, let us live in the atmosphere of prayer, our hearts continually being lifted up in prayer to Him.”

— K.P. Yohannan