Billy Graham, Billy Graham In Quotes Quotes

Fear can paralyze us and keep us from believing God and stepping out in faith. The devil loves a fearful Christian!

The Bible is clear that the Holy Spirit is God Himself.

When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.

The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross.

Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!

A life touched by the Holy Spirit will tolerate sin no longer.

I am convinced that when a man sincerely searches for God with all his heart, God will reveal Himself in some way.

Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it will be like.

I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.

Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.

God has not promised to bless my thoughts, but He has promised to bless His Word.

When our faith becomes nothing more than a series of rules and regulations, joy flees and our love for Christ grows cold.

Faith is loved and honored by God more than any other single thing.

For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world.

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.

The whole world ought to know the story of the Bible.

The Bible is God’s love letter to us.

The Bible opens with a tragedy and ends in a triumph.

Nowhere do the Scriptures tell us to seek results, nor do the Scriptures rebuke evangelists if the results are meager.

Some evangelists spend too much time thinking and even planning about how to achieve visible results. This is an easy trap to fall into.

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.

Itinerant evangelists are the most important ambassadors and messengers on earth. They are a mighty army, spreading out across the world with a vision to reach their own people for Christ.

An evangelist is like a newscaster on television or a journalist writing for a newspaper . . . except that the evangelist’s mission is to tell the Good News that never changes.

We are commissioned to make disciples, to bring them into the same direct relationship with Christ as those who left their nets and their fishing boats to become “fishers of men.

To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high.

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.

Many Christians want the benefits of their belief, but they hesitate at the cost of discipleship.

Jesus Christ spoke frankly to His disciples concerning the future . . .In unmistakable language He told them that discipleship means a life of self-denial, and the bearing of a cross.

Christ never told his disciples that they would get an Academy Award for their performances, but He did tell them to expect to have troubles.

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.

Our minds must be set always to seek the will of the Lord. Following the progressive discipline revealed through the Bible will result in a walk of obedience to God.

To be a disciple is to be committed to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and committed to following Him every day. To be a disciple is also to be disciplined in our bodies, minds, and souls.

We need to be on guard against greed . . . above all we need to make sure our lives are centered in Christ and not things.

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.

Greed is an unreasonable or all-absorbing desire to acquire things or wealth. One test of greed is that it is never satisfied. Greed is repeatedly condemned in the Bible.

Life is not a matter of dollars and cents, houses and lands, earning capacity and financial achievement. Greed must not be allowed to make man the slave of wealth.

Everything that we see about us that we count is our possessions only comprises a loan from God, and it is when we lose sight of this all-pervading truth that we become greedy and covetous.

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

The Bible sees greed as a form of idolatry, because a greedy person worships things instead of God. Greed and envy have their roots in selfishness.

The Bible warns us against greed and selfishness, it does encourage frugality and thrift.

Envy and greed always—always—exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace.

I look forward to seeing Christ and bowing before Him in praise and gratitude for all He has done for us, and for using me on this earth by His grace—just as I am.

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

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.

Throughout Scripture we read of warnings preceding disaster. Such alerts from God are part of His grace and provision.

Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in thesimple and beautiful things around him.

Happiness is a choice, but grief is a certainty.

Do you really want happiness? Then you will have to pay the price of humbling yourself at the foot of the cross and receiving Christ as Savior.