Billy Graham Quotes

A checkbook is a theological document, it will tell you who and what you worship. ~ Billy Graham

The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control. ~ Billy Graham

God gave us our children so we could prepare them to become adults. ~ Billy Graham

Christianity is being compared with other religions as never before. Some so-called Christian leaders even advocate the working out of a system of morals, ethics, and religion that would bring together all the religions of the world. It cannot be done. Jesus Christ is unique. ~ Billy Graham

The end of the world begins the moment you die. ~ Billy Graham

The blessing of knowledge becomes a curse when we pervert it. ~ Billy Graham

I have found that most young people really want us to spell out a moral code. They may not accept it or believe it, but they want to hear it, clearly and without compromise. ~ Billy Graham

When we live apart from God, our lives get out of tune - out of harmony with others and with God. But if we live in tune with the Master, we, too, will find ourselves surrounded by His beautiful music. As this new year begins, ask God to help you tune your life every day to His Word, so you can bring harmony and joy to those around you. ~ Billy Graham

Temptation requires definite, decisive action. ~ Billy Graham

The way in which we react to hurts and disappointments influences the shaping of our personalities. ~ Billy Graham

Jesus Himself was the first missionary ... He pledged His followers to be missionaries too! ~ Billy Graham

The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I'm here. ~ Billy Graham

God does not change - and neither does His love. He loved you before you were born ... He loves you now ... and He will love you forever. ~ Billy Graham

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us. ~ Billy Graham

God's forgiveness is not just a casual statement; it is the complete blotting out of all dirt and degradation of our past, present, and future. ~ Billy Graham

Angels speak. They appear and reappear. They feel with apt sense of emotion. While Angels may become visible by choice, our eyes are not conducted to see them ordinarily any more than we can see the dimensions of a nuclear field, the structure of atoms, or the electricity that flows through copper wiring ... ~ Billy Graham

May our prayers today - and every day - be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being! ~ Billy Graham

The Bible teaches us to be more concerned about the needs and feelings of others than our own. We are to encourage and build self-confidence in our loved ones, friends, and associates. ~ Billy Graham

Life is sacred and given to us by God; for that reason we must never condone the deliberate, unnatural taking of life. ~ Billy Graham

I'm in a win-win playoff. Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing. ~ Billy Graham

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning. ~ Billy Graham

your faith and hope are in god. ~ Billy Graham

The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us. ~ Billy Graham

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain. ~ Billy Graham

The secret of domestic happiness is to let God, the party of the third part in the marriage contract, have His rightful place in the home. Make peace with Him and then you can be a real peacemaker in the home. ~ Billy Graham

There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul. ~ Billy Graham

Learn to shut out the distractions that keep you from truly worshiping God. ~ Billy Graham

It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies. ~ Billy Graham

Everything we do should glorify God! ~ Billy Graham

Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world because He is the only One who can bridge the gap between Heaven and earth. The Bible says, "By one Man's obedience many will be made righteous" (Romans 5:19 NKJV). ~ Billy Graham

We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ? ~ Billy Graham

Parents have bought into the world's pastimes chock-full of pop culture, and it is searing the souls of our children. Parents have allowed electronic babysitters to infiltrate their homes and minds; young people's sense of right and wrong is being choked by wild and rank weeds in a moral wasteland. ~ Billy Graham

It is Satan's purpose to steal the seed of truth from your heart by sending distracting thoughts ... The difference between a Christian and a non-Christian is: though they both may have good and evil thoughts, Christ gives His followers strength to select the right rather than the wrong. ~ Billy Graham

Preach with authority. The authority for us is the Word of God. Preach with simplicity ... Preach with urgency ... heaven and hell are at stake. Preach for a decision. ~ Billy Graham

The words 'believe' and 'repent' are now largely replaced by other terms such as "Give your life to Christ', 'Open your heart to Christ', 'Do it now', 'Surrender completely', 'Decide for Christ', etc., and in similar language those who profess conversion are sometimes represented as having 'given in'. ~ Iain H. Murray

What stirs God most is not physical suffering but sin. All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die. ~ Billy Graham

You cannot come to Christ unless the Spirit of God brings you. But what if you ignore His warnings? Then you are in the gravest danger, for some day God will no longer be speaking to you. Then it will be too late. Come to Christ while there is still time. Christ, God's greater Ark, stands ready to welcome you to safety today. ~ Billy Graham

We need to know what the Bible teaches about right and wrong. Every day we are battered by messages - from the media, advertising, entertainment, celebrities, even our friends - with one underlying theme: Live for yourself. ~ Billy Graham

We should go to no place that we would not go in His Presence. But He is not with us just to judge or condemn us; He is near to comfort, protect, guide, encourage, strengthen, cleanse, and help. ~ Billy Graham

Every manifestation of evil is the result of basic sin - sin that has remained unchanged since the moment it first entered the human race. ~ Billy Graham

Perversion is considered a biological abnormality rather than a sin. These things are contrary to the teaching of God's Word. And God has not changed. His standards have not been lowered. God still calls immorality a sin and the Bible says God is going to judge it. ~ Billy Graham

God will give us the strength and resources we need to live through any situation in life that He ordains. ~ Billy Graham

There is something wrong when a brother or sister becomes alienated from the rest of their family, so there is something wrong when Christians refuse to have anything to do with their fellow Christians. God wants us to live this Christian life together. ~ Billy Graham

Preachers are not salesmen, for they have nothing to sell. They are bearers of Good News. ~ Billy Graham

As for the world system of evil, we are to be separated from it. This then is our problem: to associate with and love those who are involved in the world without being contaminated, influenced, or swayed by them. This distinction can be achieved only by a close walk with Christ, by constant prayer, and by seeking the Holy Spirit's leadership every hour of the day. We are in the world, but the world is not to be in us. ~ Billy Graham

A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener. ~ Billy Graham

I have often said that loneliness is the predominant attitude in our culture. A person can be lonely in the midst of a party; he can be lonely in a crowd. Loneliness may be experienced by the rich and famous or the poor and unknown. ~ Billy Graham

Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish. ~ Billy Graham

Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and Anti-Christ. ~ Billy Graham

I have never known a man who received Christ and ever regretted it. ~ Billy Graham

Grief can kill a person emotionally and physically. If not counteracted with God's strength and power, our personal weakness may debilitate us. ~ Billy Graham

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are. ~ Billy Graham

Prayer is for every moment of our lives, not just for times of suffering or joy. Prayer is really a place, a place where you meet God in genuine conversation. ~ Billy Graham

Spiritually, we have wandered far from the faith of our fathers ... no nation which relegates the Bible to the background, which disregards the love of God and flouts the claims of the Man of Galilee, can long survive. ~ Billy Graham

Prayer is more than a wish; it is the voice of faith directed to God. ~ Billy Graham

Many believe that pagan worship is a thing of the past, but it is ever present - we have just given it a new name: pop culture. ~ Billy Graham

We are more united than ever before. I think this was exemplified in a very moving way when the members of our Congress stood shoulder to shoulder the other day and sang God Bless America. ~ Billy Graham

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called. ~ Billy Graham

There is legitimate pleasure, which is not wrong, but we are not to become so preoccupied with its activities that it takes the place of God. ~ Billy Graham

I am convinced that hundreds of religious leaders throughout the world today are servants not of God, but of the Antichrist. They are wolves in sheep's clothing; they are tares instead of wheat. ~ Billy Graham

Blood is the symbol of the life sacrificed for sin. ~ Billy Graham

All transgressions begin with sinful thinking ... guard against the pictures of lewdness and sensuality that Satan flashes upon the screen of your imagination, select with care the books you read, choose discerningly the kind of entertainment you
attend, the kind of associates with whom you mingle, and the kind of environment in which you place yourself. ~ Billy Graham

Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him. ~ Billy Graham

The true child of God will have a hunger for worship and God's Word. ~ Billy Graham

If you are a true Christian ... you will reveal through your daily life the fruit of the Spirit ... and all the other Christian virtues which round out a Christlike personality. ~ Billy Graham

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. ~ Billy Graham

One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper was not hostile; he was not opposed to them, but his inn was crowded; his hands were full; his mind was preoccupied. This§ is the answer that millions are giving today. Like a Bethlehem innkeeper, they cannot find room for Christ. All the accommodations in their hearts are already taken up by other crowding interests. Their response is not atheism. It is not defiance. It is preoccupation and the feeling of being able to get on reasonably well without Christianity. ~ Billy Graham

God does not want an apartment in our house. He claims our entire home from attic to cellar. ~ Billy Graham

[God] speaks from heaven through the Bible, His written Word. This is why I use the phrase "the Bible says." I would not have the authority to say what I do in sermons unless it was based upon the Word of God. ~ Billy Graham

Today there are more people who know the words to a television commercial than know the words in the Bible. ~ Billy Graham

I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe. ~ Billy Graham

The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest. If the home deteriorates, civilization will crumble and fall. ~ Billy Graham

Our generation has become well versed in Christian terminology but is remiss in the actual practice of Christ's principles and teachings. Hence, our greatest need today is not more Christianity but more true Christians. ~ Billy Graham

Though the Christian has no immunity from death and no claim to perpetual life on this planet, death is to him a friend rather than a foe, the beginning rather than the end, another step on the pathway to heaven rather than a leap into a dark unknown. ~ Billy Graham

I have been preaching repentance for seventy years; there are thousands of ministers of the Gospel all over this planet preaching repentance this very hour ... and most of the time the world has laughed in the face of the King of kings. ~ Billy Graham

We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us. ~ Billy Graham

Worship in the truest sense takes place only when our full attention is on God - on His glory, power, majesty, love and compassion. ~ Billy Graham

We should not let a day go by without thanking God for His mercy and grace to us in Jesus Christ. ~ Billy Graham

Astrology can never give you the answers to life's deepest questions - especially where you will spend eternity. Commit your life to Christ. It will give you joyous confidence that your future is securely in His hands - tomorrow and forever. ~ Billy Graham

Having knowledge of the Bible is essential to a rich and meaningful life. ~ Billy Graham

Your own family circle knows whether Christ lives in you and through you. ~ Billy Graham

Occasionally I've seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings. ~ Billy Graham

Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together. What our young people want to see in their elders is integrity, honesty, truthfulness, and faith. What they hate most of all is hypocrisy and phoniness ... Let them see us doing what we would like them to do. ~ Billy Graham

Your life is intricately woven into the lives of scores and hundreds of others around you. Consider the variety of lives that you influence in one day. Somewhere within your circle of contacts someone is being hurt. Are you aware of it? ~ Billy Graham

It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference between what is of God and what is not. Such a person can often point out false teachings or false teachers - he has an almost uncanny ability to perceive
hypocrisy, shallowness, deceit, or phoniness. ~ Billy Graham

We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with God's moral code. ~ Billy Graham

The Bible is God's book of promises, and, unlike the books of men, it does not change or get out of date. ~ Billy Graham

From the moment a child is born, the death process, and the fight against it, begins. ~ Billy Graham

The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God. ~ Billy Graham

I will never do anything in my entire life except preach the Gospel. ~ Billy Graham

Nowhere in Mark 16:15 - "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" [KJV] - nor in any similar Scripture did Christ command us to go only into the Western or capitalist world. Nowhere did He say to exclude the Communist world. ~ Billy Graham

[It] is well and good when our convictions are based upon the "Thou shalts" and the "Thou shalt nots" of Scripture rather than our own ideas. ~ Billy Graham

[Satan] will create a religion without a Redeemer. He will build a church without a Christ. He will call for worship without the Word of God. ~ Billy Graham

May we store up the truths of God's Word in our hearts as much as possible, so that we are prepared for whatever suffering we are called upon to endure. ~ Billy Graham

When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in. ~ Billy Graham

The Scripture teaches that popularity with the world means death. Satan's most effective tool is conformity and compromise. He is aware that one man standing in the midst of a pagan people
can move more people in the direction of God than thousands of insipid professors of religion. ~ Billy Graham

Hope, like faith and a purpose in life, is medicinal. ~ Billy Graham

Dogs are quick to show their affection. They never pout, they never bear a grudge. They never run away from home when mistreated. They never complain about their food. They never gripe about the way the house is kept. They are chivalrous and courageous, ready to protect their mistress at the risk of their lives. They love children, and no matter how noisy and boisterous they are, the dog loves every minute of it. In fact, a dog is still competition for a husband. Perhaps if we husbands imitated a few of our dog's virtues, life with our family might be more amiable. ~ Billy Graham

Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone. ~ Billy Graham

God made us for one reason: so He could have fellowship with us. It wasn't that He was lonely or needed us but He made us in His image so He could shower His love upon us. ~ Billy Graham