Billy Quotes

No form of government has been able to establish righteousness, justice, and peace, the three elements without which we can never have continued national prosperity or international peace.

The secret strength of a nation is found in the faith that abides in the hearts and homes of the country.

There is no doubt that nations come to an end when they have ceased to fulfill the function that God meant for them.

A terrifying spiritual and moral tide of evil has already loosed us from our spiritual moorings. Monstrous new ideas that could easily destroy our freedoms are rushing into the vacuum.

We must face honestly the toll that anger and bitterness take on our lives. They are our enemies! The Bible says, “An angry person stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered one commits many sins.

God honored and blessed America as few nations in history. However, in recent years the nation has been moving away from its religious heritage.

I believe America has gone a long way down the wrong road. If we ever needed God’s help, it is now.

You can put a public school and university in the middle of every block of every city in America—but you will never keep America from rotting morally by mere intellectual education.

When someone hurts us, our natural instinct is to strike back—but when we do, we not only destroy any possibility of reconciliation, but we also allow anger and hate to control us.

Don’t let hatred control you, no matter what others do that causes [anger]. You would only become guilty of the same sin that afflicts them, and nothing would be solved.

America has probably been the most successful experiment in history. The American Dream was a glorious attempt. It was built on a religious foundation. Its earliest concepts came from Holy Scripture.

Don’t let the acids of bitterness eat away inside. Learn the secret of trusting Christ in every circumstance.

Bitterness is anger gone sour, an attitude of deep discontent that poisons our souls and destroys our peace.

Anger makes us lash out at others, destroying relationships and revealing our true nature. The history of the human race is largely the history of its anger.

There are many irritations in life. They become prime opportunities for Satan to lead us into evil passion. Keep anger clear of bitterness, spite, or hatred.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Discover the Bible for yourself.

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

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

Today there are more people who know the words to a television commercial than know the words in the Bible.

The sword of the Spirit—the Bible—is the weapon God has provided for us to use in this battle between truth and deception. Make it a priority to wield that sword skillfully.

Let the study of the Bible become central in your life—not just so you will know it, but that you will obey it.

The Bible is God’s book of promises, and, unlike the books of men, it does not change or get out of date.

The Bible is the only Book in the world that predicts the future. The Bible is more modern than tomorrow morning’s newspaper.

People reading the Bible for the first time are often surprised to discover how much human drama it contains. Almost every conceivable human dilemma and conflict is reflected in its pages.

The blood of Christ “purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation” (Revelation 5:9 NIV).

The Bible has stood the test of time because it is divinely inspired by Almighty God, written in ink that cannot be erased by any man, religion, or belief system.

The main “food” God has given to strengthen us is the Bible, the Word of God.

People from all walks of life are searching for answers to life’s problems. I believe the Bible has the answer to man’s deepest needs.

The Bible is to be our basis of authority. We must “by faith” accept [Jesus] as the Son of the living God. This sounds narrow and intolerant, and in a sense it is!

The central theme of the Bible is salvation, and the central personality of the Bible is Christ.

The only place we can find a clear, i unmistakable message is in the Word of God [the Bible].

The Bible will always be the center of controversy.

God’s laws for the spiritual world are found in the Bible. Whatever else there may be that tells us of God, it is more clearly told in the Bible.

Every generation has found [the Bible’s] message indispensable, and its influence on individuals and society over the centuries has been enormous.

Man has not changed. Man still rejects the testimony of the Scripture.

The vitality [of] the Bible [is] exhibited in every generation . . .Its power to transform lives is its best apologetic.

One can approach the Bible with a cold, rationalistic attitude, or one can do so with reverence and the desire to hear God speak.

Just as the Bible is God’s written Word, so Jesus is God’s living Word.