Billy Graham Quotes

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God’s word.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman’s body is very beautiful.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

The word ‚romance,‘ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

A calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

I first met Bev Shea while in Chicago when he was on Moody Radio. As a young man starting my ministry, I asked Bev if he would join me. He said yes, and for over 60 years we had the privilege of ministering together across the country and around the world.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

I’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

We have an idea that we Americans are God’s chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God’s blessed. I tell you that God doesn’t love us any more than He does the Russians.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

The human heart is the same the world over.

I’m not an analyzer. I’ve got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don’t analyze people.

I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

I haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

We’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

I don’t have many sad days.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

I’ve been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

I don’t need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you’d grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

I never hold a grudge.

The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.