Billy Graham Quotes

The Holy Spirit gives liberty to the Christian, direction to the worker, discernment to the teacher, power to the Word, and fruit to faithful service. He reveals the things of Christ.

If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.

Fear can paralyze us and keep us from believing God and stepping out in faith. The devil loves a fearful Christian!

The Bible is clear that the Holy Spirit is God Himself.

When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.

Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!

A life touched by the Holy Spirit will tolerate sin no longer.

I am convinced that when a man sincerely searches for God with all his heart, God will reveal Himself in some way.

The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross.

Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it will be like.

I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.

Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.

God has not promised to bless my thoughts, but He has promised to bless His Word.

When our faith becomes nothing more than a series of rules and regulations, joy flees and our love for Christ grows cold.

Faith is loved and honored by God more than any other single thing.

For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world.

We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.

The greatest hindrance to Satan’s destructive efforts is our standing strong in the knowledge and fear of the Lord.

Satan rejoices when we are inconsistent, because he knows that an inconsistent Christian is an ineffective Christian—or worse.

Jesus Christ spoke frankly to His disciples concerning the future . . .In unmistakable language He told them that discipleship means a life of self-denial, and the bearing of a cross.

We constantly pass up the rich and beautiful and ennobling experiences and seek out the tawdry, the cheap, and the degrading. These are the works of the devil, and they flourish on every side!

Satan does not care how much you theorize about Christianity or how much you profess to know Christ. What he opposes vigorously is the way you live Christ.

Christ never told his disciples that they would get an Academy Award for their performances, but He did tell them to expect to have troubles.

It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.

Our minds must be set always to seek the will of the Lord. Following the progressive discipline revealed through the Bible will result in a walk of obedience to God.

We must be constantly aware that Satan can take any human effort and twist it to serve his own purposes.

To be a disciple is to be committed to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and committed to following Him every day. To be a disciple is also to be disciplined in our bodies, minds, and souls.

We need to be on guard against greed . . . above all we need to make sure our lives are centered in Christ and not things.

Only God can thwart the plans of Satan and his legions.

Greed is an unreasonable or all-absorbing desire to acquire things or wealth. One test of greed is that it is never satisfied. Greed is repeatedly condemned in the Bible.

Life is not a matter of dollars and cents, houses and lands, earning capacity and financial achievement. Greed must not be allowed to make man the slave of wealth.

Everything that we see about us that we count is our possessions only comprises a loan from God, and it is when we lose sight of this all-pervading truth that we become greedy and covetous.

If you are not careful you will find yourself actually in the employ of the devil. He is powerful, slick, crafty, wily, and subtle.

One of the devil’s methods is to attack everyone . . . He knows that the Word of God is powerful, and he will try to keep you from it.

The Bible sees greed as a form of idolatry, because a greedy person worships things instead of God. Greed and envy have their roots in selfishness.

When we are filled with the Spirit of God, obeying God, in His will and quoting Scripture, Satan will be defeated.

Jesus did not dispute [Satan] . . . our Lord quoted Scripture, and that’s one thing the devil can’t stand! The Scripture defeats him every time.

The Bible warns us against greed and selfishness, it does encourage frugality and thrift.

Envy and greed always—always—exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace.

As long as Satan is loose in the world and our hearts are dominated by his evil passions, it will never be easy or popular to be a follower of Christ.

God’s followers need to know the truth He sets forth in His Word so that we can confidently discern between His truth and Satan’s lies.

Do you want your faith to grow? Then let the Bible begin to saturate your mind and soul.

Fear can banish faith, but faith can banish fear.

Faith isn’t pretending our problems don’t exist, nor is it simply blind optimism. Faith points us beyond our problems to the hope we have in Christ.

Don’t forget: Without fuel, a fire grows cold—and without the “fuel” of the Bible, prayer, and Christian fellowship, our faith grows cold.

Our faith can stand up to any question, but sometimes people ask questions—and keep asking questions—just to avoid facing their own spiritual needs and acknowledging who Jesus really is.

Christians who are strong in the faith grow as they accept whatever God allows to enter their lives.

Discouragement is the opposite of faith. It is Satan’s device to thwart the work of God in your life.

It is the presence of sin that prevents man from being truly happy.