Billy Graham Quotes

Billy Graham Quote of the day

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.

A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.

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.

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.

Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates.

The great commandment is that we preach the gospel to every creature, but neither God nor the Bible says anything about forcing it down people's throats.

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.

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

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

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

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Jesus used the carefree attitude of the birds to underscore the fact that worrying is unnatural. I am learning in my own life, day by day, to keep my mind centered on Christ.

Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope.

The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.

God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.

Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.

Be sure that your motive in praying is to glorify God.

I trust Jesus with all my tomorrows, knowing that He will solve the mystery of life beyond the grave.

The Word of God hidden in the heart is a stubborn voice to suppress.

Most of us know about God, but that is quite different from knowing God.

The most remarkable thing about suffering is that God can use it for our good.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Salvation is an act of God. It is initiated by God, wrought by God, and sustained by God.

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.

The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.

Jesus made everything so simple and we have made it so complicated. He spoke to the people in short sentences and everyday words, illustrating His messages with never-to-be forgotten stories.

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution.

Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

[There are] seven gifts God gives you when you commit your life to Christ: a new relationship, a new citizenship, a new family, a new purpose, a new power, a new destiny, and a new journey.

Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.

Salvation is free! God puts no price tag on the Gift of gifts.

The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it does teach that sin shall no longer reign over you.

You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.