Billy Graham Quotes

People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.

First of all, you have to meet God with light! I do not believe that any man, that any man can solve the problems of life without Jesus Christ.

You can receive Christ into your heart, and he can bring joy, and a thrill, and glory such as you have never known - if you will give your life to him.

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

Don't wavier. Make a decision. Do it now.

Pope John Paul II was unquestionably the most influential voice for morality and peace in the world during the last 100 years.

The end of the world begins the moment you die.

Think of working forever at something you love to do, for one you love with all your heart, and never getting tired! We will never know weariness in heaven.

There's a way of life, there's a way of death. Which way are you on?

... Not only are we comforted in our trials, but our trials can equip us to comfort others.

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.

All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.

... a true servant of God is someone who helps another succeed.

If America is to survive, we must elect more God-centered men and women to public office; individuals who will seek Divine guidance in the affairs of state.

Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift-the gift that liberates souls from sin's power.

Grief's darkness fades in the sunlight of thanksgiving.

Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and Anti-Christ.

You cannot serve god and mammon. You have to make a choice.

The Bible is the Constitution of Christianity.

Those are decisions only the Lord will make. I believe the love of God is absolute. He said he gave his son for the whole world, and I think he loves everybody regardless of what label they have.

Give your life to Christ, he'll challenge you.

You have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God.

God's grace, quite simply, is God's mercy and goodness toward us.

Even our pets can become idols.

All mankind is crying out for guidance, for comfort, for peace.

Evil is real - but so is God's power and love.

Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age?

Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilty conscience were worse than prison bars.

Hypochondriacs who have a fanciful anxiety about their health will never be well regardless of their physical condition.

Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us.

Look up on a starry night, and you will see the majesty and power of an infinite Creator.

Anxiety and fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow.

Today the idea of the shed blood of Christ is becoming old-fashioned and out of date in a lot of preaching. It is in the Bible. It is the very heart of Christianity.

[Today] there is less emphasis on redemption by the blood of Christ.

The distinctive feature of Christianity is blood atonement. Without it we cannot be saved. Blood is actually a symbol of the death of Christ.

We are called to obey Christ. He is the Master of our lives and has washed us in His blood, which cleanses our souls, our minds, and our mouths. The world is watching. What do they see and hear?

Blood is the symbol of the life sacrificed for sin.

The destiny of your own soul is in your own hands by the choice you make.

The Antichrist . . . will be the embodiment of evil, and will have great power to deceive those who choose to follow him.

[God] created us free to choose how we would live . . . but leaves us free to pursue our own ends with tragic, natural consequences.

Our families cannot choose Christ for us. Our friends cannot do it. God is a great God, but even God can’t make the decision for us . . .we have to make our own choice.

From the beginning of time until the present moment, man’s ungodly quest for power, his determination to use his gift of free choice for his own selfish ends, has brought him to the brink of doom.

Don’t let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another—if we seek it.

[The Holy Spirit] will remain with every believer right to the end. This thought has encouraged me a thousand times in these dark days when satanic forces are at work.

Sometimes we encourage someone without even being aware of it. Even the example we set by attending church may encourage someone who is searching for God.

Peter preached about [the blood]. Paul wrote about it, and the redeemed in heaven sing about it. In a sense, the New Testament is the Book of the Blood.

Many of the mysteries of God—the heartaches, trials, disappointments, tragedies, and the silence of God in the midst of suffering—will be revealed in heaven.

If we who have the Holy Spirit living and working within us falter and fail, what hope is there for the rest of the world?