Billy Graham Quotes

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

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

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it.

God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice.

Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God's love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes.

God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don't let the newspaper headlines frighten you. God is still sovereign; He's still on the throne.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God's love for them in Christ.

God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better.

No matter who you are or what your life has been like so far, the rest of your life's journey can be different. With God's help you can begin again.

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.

We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.

A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

If you are ignorant of God's Word, you will always be ignorant of God's will.

Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point.

My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

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

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

When we come to Christ, we’re no longer the most important person in the world to us; Christ is. Instead of living only for ourselves, we have a higher goal: to live for Jesus.

Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.

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

... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.

We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.

Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment; being a Christian is the work of a lifetime.

True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency.

Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word.

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

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.

God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.

You can't control the length of your life. You can control the depth

In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.