Billy Quotes

A Christian’s citizenship may be in heaven, but he has obligations as a citizen of earth. Both living with Christ and going to be with Him in death are greatly to be desired.

Be willing to be sneered at than to be approved, counting the cross of Christ greater riches than all the treasures of Washington, London, Paris, or Moscow.

The law enables us to see ourselves as morally dirty and in need of cleansing. But it also points us to the place of cleansing: the cross of Christ.

The cross is the only way of salvation. And the cross gives a new purpose to life.

The cross shows the seriousness of our sin—but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.

Jesus was born with the cross darkening His pathway . . . From the cradle to the cross, [Jesus’] purpose was to die.

Jesus Christ opened heaven’s door for us by His death on the cross.

Pride always puts [self] above others—and cuts [itself] off from them as a result. No one likes an arrogant, prideful person.

By faith in [Jesus] we can be forgiven of our sins and know the joy of following Him every day.

Learn to keep close to [Jesus], to listen to His voice, and follow Him.

Following Christ has been made too easy. It is easy to follow Him when our world is safe and comfortable . . .but when that world shatters, only a secure faith will sustain us.

If [Christian leaders] do not teach Christian principles to all followers of Christ, we are not equipping them with God’s truth that willovercome worldly influence.

Christ warned His followers that to believe in Him would not make them popular, and that they should be prepared to face affliction for His sake.

Don’t be deceived by Satan and his lies. Instead, stay close to Christ—because the closer you are to Him, the farther away you are from the devil.

[Jesus] asked [His followers] to count the cost carefully, lest they should turn back when they met with suffering and privation. He told His followers that the world would hate them.

In John 6 we read that when great multitudes went after Him, He told them three times that unless they were willing to pay the price, they could not be His followers.

Men cannot help that it is their nature to respond to the lewd, the salacious, and the vile. They will have difficulty doing otherwise until they are born again.

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

Satan will thrash about in one last burst of evil, hoping to capture as many souls as possible before his inevitable end.

Never forget: Death was Satan’s greatest victory.

We are living in a topsy-turvy world, where all is confusion. But you may be sure that it is confusion with a plan—Satan’s plan!

Since the Bible is God’s Word, we shouldn’t be surprised if Satan tries to convince us otherwise.

Before Satan there was no sin, and before sin there was no pain.

I have yet to see Satan overcome a truly joyful Christian.

The mind is the devil’s favorite avenue of attack.

[Satan] will create a religion without a Redeemer. He will build a church without a Christ. He will call for worship without the Word of God.

Never forget: Satan’s goal is to turn us away from God.

Satan perverts everything good by mimicking and mocking the real thing.

Satan is the master of the ultimate double-talk and sophistry. He calls evil good and continues to confuse men with his cleverly disguised untruths.

Satan exalted himself above God and endeavored to get man to doubt the reliability of God’s Word.

Satan didn’t lose any of his beguiling ways when he became the fallen prince. He took his charm, his subtleties, and his clever plots to use on us.

The cross was designed to defeat Satan, who by deception had obtained squatters’ rights to the title of the earth.

Satan is real and is opposed to everything God is doing.

If your heart is not attuned to God, it will become a catch basin for every device of the devil. Yes, Satan is at work in our world. The Bible is my authority.

Satan is both a fashion designer and an interior designer. He first appeals to the eye and then shouts, “Gotcha!” Then he goes to work on the “inside job.

Satan is masterful at using just enough of God’s truth to capture a person’s attention and then mix it with his devious potion that will lead [believers] astray.

The devil is alive and kicking. But if you are in Christ and follow the rules of daily Bible study, prayer, and witnessing, he has no power over you.

You cannot argue with [Satan], for he is the greatest debater of all time.

Man cannot control himself, and if he will not be controlled by Jesus Christ, then he will be controlled by Satan.

In taking our human nature upon Himself, [Jesus] showed us what we might become, what God intended us to be.

Our worldly wisdom has made us calloused and hard. Our natural wisdom, as the Scriptures teach, comes not from God, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish.

Man’s nature and destiny are revealed in the Scriptures.

The deepest problems of the human race are spiritual in nature. They are rooted in man’s refusal to seek God’s way for his life. The problem is the human heart, which God alone can change.

Man is a rebel, and a rebel is naturally in confusion. He is in conflict with every other rebel. For a rebel by his very nature is selfish. He is seeking his own good and not the good of others.

Acknowledge that there is a defect in human nature, a built-in waywardness that comes from man’s rebellion against God.

One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst.

Pride flees when we compare ourselves to God instead of [to] other people.

God doesn’t say to be perfect and you’ll get to heaven. He says to confess that you’re a sinner and come to the cross, and whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

If Satan can’t keep you away from Christ, he will at least try to make you doubt your salvation.

The Bible is primarily concerned with the story of man’s redemption as it is in Jesus Christ. If you read Scripture and miss the story of salvation, you have missed its message and its meaning.