Billy Graham Quotes

Every graveyard and every cemetery testify that the Bible is true.

Make the Bible part of your daily life, and ask God to engrave its truths on your soul.

Discover the Bible for yourself.

If I stick to the Bible and preach the principles and the teachings of the Bible, and quote the Bible, it has an impact of its own.

We can trust the Bible because it points us to the most important events in human history: the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

From one end of the Bible to the other, God assures us that He will never go back on His promises.

Come back to the Bible. Begin to read it. Study it and God will speak to you and change you—and through you perhaps history can be changed.

The Bible is actually a library of books—some long, some short—written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one, however, was [the] Author: the Spirit of God.

America’s Declaration of Independence speaks of “the pursuit of happiness, ” but nowhere in the Bible are we told to pursue this. Happiness is elusive, and we don’t find it by seeking it.

Just as America has grown and prospered within the framework of our Constitution, so Christianity has flourished and spread according to the laws set forth in the Bible.

[God] alone is perfect. Even His anger is righteous, because it is directed solely against evil.

Every destructive emotion bears its own harvest, but anger’s fruit is the most bitter of all.

Anger flees when the Spirit’s fruit fills our hearts.

On the cross Christ took upon Himself every sin we’ve ever committed—including anger.

If you have been harboring anger or bitterness or jealousy in your heart toward someone—a parent, an ex-spouse, a boss—hand it over to Christ, and ask Him to help you let it go.

Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil.

God’s standard is expressed in the Bible, and the ultimate example of that standard is Jesus Christ. When we live by the truth, we possess integrity.

Integrity means that we are trustworthy and dependable, and our character is above reproach.

Unless men of purpose, integrity, and faith stand together in unswerving loyalty to Jesus Christ, the future of the world is dark indeed.

I believe integrity can be restored to a society one person at a time. The choice belongs to each of us.

Hundreds of passages point to a time of judgment for every person who has ever lived—none will escape. If you took all the references to judgment out of the Bible, you would have little Bible left.

Integrity means that if our private life was suddenly exposed, we’d have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

God has already set the date [for judgment]. You may make and break appointments in this life, but this is one appointment you are going to keep.

People judge us not by what we think or believe, but by what we do—and when our lives don’t measure up, we lose their respect and they conclude our faith isn’t real.

A call for national and individual repentance is urgently needed today, or judgment is certain to fall.

God judges mankind by the standard of the only God-man who ever lived, Jesus Christ. Jesus, the innocent Lamb of God, stands between our sin and the judgment of God the Father.

God’s judgment echoes the sound of hoofbeats, but God’s love quietly convicts.

In character-building and in living the Christian life, concentration is important. The [person] who has a general interest in everything usually isn’t too good at anything.

One of the real tests of Christian character is to be found in the lives we live from day to day.

Be attractive and winsome, but do not compromise your convictions for the sake of popularity.

When Jesus was tempted, He didn’t debate the devil. He quoted Scripture: “It is written . . . It is written . . . It is written” (Matthew 4:4–10 NKJV). And each time the devil was defeated.

We can’t flee from temptation in our own strength—but God will give us the strength we need, if we’ll only seek it. A friend of mine says, “When the devil knocks, I just send Jesus to the door!

Everyone has temptations but some folks entertain them . . .Get your eyes off the temptation and onto Christ!

Every stage of life has its own temptations and dangers, and Satan will do all he can to exploit them . . .the time to prepare is now, not when it arrives.

Be very sure that you do not deliberately place yourself in a position to be tempted.

Be sure that Satan will tempt you at your weak point, not the strong.

Many Christians give in to various temptations through peer pressure and find themselves surrendering to worldly passions, justifying pleasures the world offers.

From compromise to deceit is a small step.

Daniel and his companions were tempted to forsake their godly heritage but they refused. They even faced a fiery furnace rather than compromise.

If we are at peace with this world, it may be because we have sold out to it and compromised with it.

Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Deception is everything opposite the truth.

We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived.

For Satan’s deceptions to be successful, they must be so cunningly devised that his real purpose is concealed by wiles.

Satan’s method has often been to imitate God.Satan is still using this form of deception, and often his representatives are being disguised as ministers of righteousness.

The underlying principle of all Satan’s tactics is deception. He is a crafty and clever camouflager.

Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God’s desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son.

God’s purpose for us is that we ought to beconformed to the image of His Son. The world may exert its pressure to deform us, but we are told to “be transformed” [Romans 12:2 NIV].

It is a tragedy that many of God’s people have conformed themselves to the world and its thinking, rather than being transformed by the renewing of their minds.

Temptation: Recognize it for what it is, and then reject it—immediately and without compromise.

A godlikeness of character is the Christian’s proper heritage in this earthly walk.