Billy Graham Quotes

All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

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.

The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.

The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.

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

Don't be a half-Christian. There are too many of such in the world. The world has a profound respect for people who are sincere in their faith.

We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put Jesus on the cross - it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer His death.

Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.

Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Whatever affliction comes in our life, our Lord goes into the valley with us, leading us by the hand, even carrying us when it is necessary.

In some churches today and on some religious television programs, we see the attempt to make Christianity popular and pleasant. We have taken the cross away and substituted cushions.

Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.

The Bible is to your soul what bread is to your body. You need it daily. One good meal does not suffice for a lifetime.

Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.

Christ not only died for all: He died for each.

If you want the perfect plan that God has for your life, you will have to go by way of Calvary to get it.

It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.

You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.

The cross is offensive because it directly confronts the evils which dominate so much of this world.

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

Jesus had a humble heart. If He abides in us, pride will never dominate our lives.

Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.

Jesus said...i'm the only way to permanent peace, im the only way to permanent joy, im the only way to eternal life, im the only way to forgiveness of sin, im the only way to the Father.

Why should we give God thanks? Because everything we have comes from God.

Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.

If you find a perfect church don't join it: You'd spoil it.

When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates.

Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.

There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!

One of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism.

My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again.

No matter how dark and hopeless a situation might seem, never stop praying.

It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.

My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

To be peacemaker, you must know the peace giver.

Live each day as if it were your last for some day it will be.