Billy Graham Quotes

There is not a day that we do not have a chance to choose between the devil’s clever promises and God’s sure Word.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Blood is the symbol of the life sacrificed for sin.

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?

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

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

Today the idea of the shed blood of Christ is becoming old-fashioned and out of date in a lot of preaching.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

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

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

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.

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

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

In order to get to heaven, Jesus said that you must be converted. I didn’t say it—Jesus said it!

The church holds the key to revival. It is within our grasp.

The church should be setting the pace. The church should be taking its proper place of leadership in the nation . . .God help the church to wake up!

God did not ordain that the church should drift aimlessly in the seas of uncertainty without compass, captain, or crew.

Preaching the whole council of God involves man’s environment and physical being as well as his soul. There is no doubt that the church is in danger of getting off the main track and getting lost.

The church in America has been deeply infiltrated by the “world, ” and in the process it is beginning to copy and resemble the world in many of its activities.

In thousands of churches [people] are led astray theologically. Thus spiritually and morally they are drifting aimlessly, without compass or guide.

The Bible . . . is the only Book that offers man a redemption and points the way out of his dilemmas. It is our one sure guide in an unsure world.

Satan] invades the Sunday school, the Bible class, and even the pulpit. He even invades the church under cover of an orthodox vocabulary, emptying sacred terms of their biblical sense.

Do not be content to skim through a chapter [of the Bible] merely to satisfy your conscience. Hide the Word of God in your heart.

Conscience is the detective that watches the direction of our steps and decries every conscious transgression.

The fiercest storm is taking place in some of our churches—the unbelief and disobedience of God’s Word.

When the church begins to entertain the flock and respond to the cult of self—it is diminished to a mere community center.

The church should not be pampered but rather prepare for, and expect, persecution—for it is Christ’s body on earth.

No church is perfect, but don’t let that discourage you. Someone has said that if you ever find one that is, it will stop being perfect the minute you join!

The church is in turmoil today. The church is not to reflect the world but to be a portrait of Jesus Christ.

Christ’s church is a place to grow people up in the Lord, not to enhance our leisure time.

The church is blending into the community by embracing what the world enjoys and, in turn, bringing inside the church the world’s ideas and interests.

The church should not reflect pop culture but portray godly attributes. The church should not seek pleasures but seek after God.

If the church is acceptable to this present ageand is not suffering reproach, then it is not the true church that our Lord founded.

Humanity wants comfort in its sorrow, light in its darkness, peace in its turmoil, rest in its weariness, and healing in its sickness and diseases: The Gospel gives all of this to us.

When we are a comfort and encouragement to others, we are sometimes surprised at how it comes back to us many times over.

There are countless opportunities to comfort others, not only in the loss of a loved one, but also in the daily distress that so often creeps into our lives.

God doesn’t comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

It is a comfort to hear the words of God in times of stress.

Most of us do not understand nuclear fission, but we accept it . . . Why is it so easy to accept manmade miracles and so difficult to accept the miracles of the Bible?

By faith I accepted Him for what He claimed to be, the Son of the Living God. That simple decision changed my life—and I have seen it change the lives of countless others across the world.

Dishonesty is never justified. God will never approve, and even your own conscience will rise up to condemn you sooner or later.

How do we prepare for that last day? Before we embark on our final trip, have we left an earthly home in a state of chaos or a condition of order?

In your own mind-darkened, will-paralyzed, conscience-dulled soul, God can make the light penetrate and turn the darkness of your own life into day, if you will let Him.

Christ can rid you of inner conflict. Man without God is always torn between two urges. His nature prompts him to do wrong, and his conscience urges him to do right.

Conscience is our wisest counselor and teacher, our most faithful and most patient friend.

You need to make the right decision—firmly and decisively—and then stick with it with God’s help.

Any theory of the universe that does not take into account the God and Creator of the universe is not worthy of serious consideration.