Billy Graham, Billy Graham In Quotes Quotes

I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial, and misunderstood . . .As a minister I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.

Not one word about hell in the Bible would ever make you want to go there.

The subject of heaven is much easier to accept than the subject of hell. And yet the Bible teaches both.

The Lord did not design the church to cater to people’s needs—the Lord breathed life into the church to proclaim His truths.

Many churches have molded their programs around the community—not the Word of God.

The church isn’t just a particular building or congregation but the spiritual fellowship of all who belong to Jesus Christ. If we belong to Christ, we also belong to each other.

Down through the centuries the church has contributed more than any other single agency in lifting social standards to new heights.

It could be said that going to church will not make one a Christian. But . . . refusing to fellowship with believers will not make you one either.

The church is a storehouse of spiritual food whereby the inner man is fed, nourished, and developed into maturity. If it fails, it is not fulfilling its purpose as a church.

The church has lost its ability to discipline members who live openly in sin. Consequently, we have lost our witness in the community.

Statistics indicate that the church is rapidly losing in the population explosion. There are fewer Christians per capita every day.

What right does any church have even attempting to approve of lifestyles or certain acts for which God prescribed the death penalty in the Old Testament?

Unless the church quickly recovers the authoritative biblical message, we may witness the spectacle of millions of Christians going outside the institutional church to find spiritual food.

Before three thousand people were brought into the church on the day of Pentecost, the disciples had spent fifty days in prayer, fasting, and spiritual travail.

God’s church is a Bible-centered church, and it grows strong under persecution.

We have been trying to solve every ill of society as though society were made up of regenerate men to whom we had an obligationto speak with Christian advice.

The church holds the key to revival. It is within our grasp.

The church should be setting the pace. The church should be taking its proper place of leadership in the nation . . .God help the church to wake up!

God did not ordain that the church should drift aimlessly in the seas of uncertainty without compass, captain, or crew.

Preaching the whole council of God involves man’s environment and physical being as well as his soul. There is no doubt that the church is in danger of getting off the main track and getting lost.

The church in America has been deeply infiltrated by the “world, ” and in the process it is beginning to copy and resemble the world in many of its activities.

In thousands of churches [people] are led astray theologically. Thus spiritually and morally they are drifting aimlessly, without compass or guide.

Satan] invades the Sunday school, the Bible class, and even the pulpit. He even invades the church under cover of an orthodox vocabulary, emptying sacred terms of their biblical sense.

Do not be content to skim through a chapter [of the Bible] merely to satisfy your conscience. Hide the Word of God in your heart.

Conscience is the detective that watches the direction of our steps and decries every conscious transgression.

The fiercest storm is taking place in some of our churches—the unbelief and disobedience of God’s Word.

When the church begins to entertain the flock and respond to the cult of self—it is diminished to a mere community center.

The church should not be pampered but rather prepare for, and expect, persecution—for it is Christ’s body on earth.

No church is perfect, but don’t let that discourage you. Someone has said that if you ever find one that is, it will stop being perfect the minute you join!

The church is in turmoil today. The church is not to reflect the world but to be a portrait of Jesus Christ.

Christ’s church is a place to grow people up in the Lord, not to enhance our leisure time.

The church is blending into the community by embracing what the world enjoys and, in turn, bringing inside the church the world’s ideas and interests.

The church should not reflect pop culture but portray godly attributes. The church should not seek pleasures but seek after God.

If the church is acceptable to this present ageand is not suffering reproach, then it is not the true church that our Lord founded.

Humanity wants comfort in its sorrow, light in its darkness, peace in its turmoil, rest in its weariness, and healing in its sickness and diseases: The Gospel gives all of this to us.

When we are a comfort and encouragement to others, we are sometimes surprised at how it comes back to us many times over.

There are countless opportunities to comfort others, not only in the loss of a loved one, but also in the daily distress that so often creeps into our lives.

Today the idea of the shed blood of Christ is becoming old-fashioned and out of date in a lot of preaching. It is in the Bible. It is the very heart of Christianity.

Any theory of the universe that does not take into account the God and Creator of the universe is not worthy of serious consideration.

There is no conclusive scientific evidence that man is “up from the ape.” While the animals were created “after their kind, ” we are told that “God created man in His own image” [Genesis 1:27 NKJV].

The Bible is the one book which reveals the Creator to the creature He created! No other book that man has conceived can make that statement and support it with fact.

Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world’s goods.

Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age?

Hypochondriacs who have a fanciful anxiety about their health will never be well regardless of their physical condition.

Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us.

Look up on a starry night, and you will see the majesty and power of an infinite Creator.

Anxiety and fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow.

Our families cannot choose Christ for us. Our friends cannot do it. God is a great God, but even God can’t make the decision for us . . .we have to make our own choice.

The Antichrist . . . will be the embodiment of evil, and will have great power to deceive those who choose to follow him.

[God] created us free to choose how we would live . . . but leaves us free to pursue our own ends with tragic, natural consequences.