Billy Quotes

Two thousand years ago God invited a morally corrupt world to the foot of the cross. There God held your sins and mine to the flames until every last vestige of our guilt was consumed.

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.

The ground is level at the foot of the cross.

Why is it that the cross has become the symbol of Christianity? It is because at the cross Jesus purchased our redemptionand provided a righteousness which we could not ourselves earn.

The heart of the Christian Gospel with its incarnation and atonement is in the cross and the resurrection. Jesus was born to die.

The happiest Christian homes I know are those given to hospitality, where neighbors feel at home, where young people are welcome, where the elderly are respected, where children are loved.

The Bible teaches that our homes should be hospitable and that those who come in and out of our homes should sense the presence of Christ.

Home was a refuge for me, a place I could truly relax.

The home is basically a sacred institution . . . Faith in Christ is the most important of all principles in the building of a happy marriage and a successful home.

Sometimes I feel so helpless and inadequate, and wonder if I have done enough to make the Gospel clear. But I also know that only the Holy Spirit can open others’ eyes to the truth.

Because [the Holy Spirit] is a spirit, [He] isn’t limited by time or space. He can be everywhere at once. He is in the midst of the largest galaxy—and the smallest atom.

It is never a question of how much you and I have of the Spirit, but how much He has of us.

Faithfulness is produced by the Holy Spirit in a yielded Christian life.

If we feed our spiritual lives and allow the Holy Spirit to empower us, He will have rule over us. If we starve our spiritual natures and instead feed the old, sinful nature, the flesh will dominate.

The Holy Spirit can rejuvenate a tired Christian, captivate an indifferent believer, and empower a dry church.

The Scripture makes it clear that this planet would already be a literal hell on earth were it not for the presence of the Holy Spirit in the world.

The Holy Spirit not only convicts of sin but also convinces men that Jesus is the righteousness of God. He shows sinners that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.

We now have the advantage of a few years more of life, but death is still standing at the end of the road.

If you are a true Christian . . .you will reveal through your daily life the fruit of the Spirit . . .and all the other Christian virtues which round out a Christlike personality.

For centuries mankind has been on an incredible journey, taking him across every generation and through every conceivable experience in his search for God.

Many people say they do not fear death, but the process of dying. It’s not the destination, but the trip that they dread.

Death for the Christian is the doorway to heaven’s glory. Because of Christ’s resurrection we can joyously say with Paul, “Where, O death, is your victory?” [1 Corinthians 15:55 NIV].

Death is not the end of the road—it is merely a gateway to eternal life beyond the grave.

For the Christian, death can be faced realistically and with victory, because he knows “that neither death nor life . . . shall be able to separate us from the love of God” [Romans 8:38–39 NKJV].

If people paid more attention to death, eternity, and judgment, there would be more holy living on earth.

Death is said in the Bible to be a coronation for the Christian.

Death reduces all men to the same rank. It strips the rich of his millions and the poor man of his rags . . .Death knows no age limits, no partiality. It is a thing that all men fear.

One of the primary goals in life should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.

Death for [a Christian] is no accident. With God there are no accidents, no tragedies, and no catastrophes as far as His children are concerned.

When we all reach the end of our earthly journey, we will have just begun.

From the moment a child is born, the death process, and the fight against it, begins.

Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project.

Christ did not die by accident. He died voluntarily in our place.

Someday this life will end, but for the Christian death also marks a beginning—the beginning of a new life with God that will last forever.

Death carries with it a certain dread. It [is] the enemy, the great, mysterious monster that makes people quake with fear.

Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon your shoulder and this brief message will be given: “Come home.

Death of the righteous . . . is not to be feared or shunned. It is the shadowed threshold to the palace of God.

For the believer there is hope beyond the grave, because Jesus Christ has opened the door to heaven for us by His death and resurrection.

My home is in heaven. I’m just passing through this world.

Sometimes . . . we grow homesick for heaven. Many times in the midst of the sin, suffering, and sorrow of this life there is a tug at our soul. That is homesickness coupled with anticipation.

Someone has said that death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life.

Death is not a trip, but a destination.

All mankind is sitting on Death Row. How we die or when is not the main issue, but where [we] go after death.

Only because Jesus is God and we have confessed Him as Savior and Lord, can He bestow and we receive these benefits, this blessed assurance and hope (see Romans 10:9).

Earth’s troubles fade in the light of heaven’s hope.

Christ’s second coming reminds us that ultimately our hope is not in this world and its attempts to solve its problems, but in Christ’s promise to establish His perfect rule over all the earth.

Faith points us beyond our problems to the hope we have in Christ.

In many homes and among so-called educated people—it has become fashionable to joke about the Bible and to regard it more as a dust-catcher than as the living Word of God.

The world is not a permanent home, it is only a temporary dwelling.

If there were no heaven and no hell, I would still want to be a Christian because of what it does for our homes and our own families in this life.