Billy Graham Quotes

Once God leads you to make a decision, don’t draw back. Instead, trust His leading, and believe He goes before you—because He does.

Part of the human makeup which distinguishes man from other creatures is his ability to reason and make moral decisions. Man is a free moral agent.

When we are called before God and His throne of judgment, it will be too late to reverse our decision. It is during our lifetime here on earth that we decide our eternal destiny.

God has a plan and the devil has a plan, and you will have to decide which plan you are going to fit into.

Jesus does not allow us to be neutral about Him. Jesus demands that we decide about Him.

The Bible teaches us to be more concerned about the needs and feelings of others than our own. We are to encourage and build self-confidence in our loved ones, friends, and associates.

We never gain in life by hurting others. Sometimes we try to elevate our own insecure egos by degrading and belittling those around us. Yet this produces only a false sense of self-esteem.

With an old head and a young heart, you can be a source of real strength [to others] who need your cheer and encouragement.

[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?

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.

Don’t be bound by the past and its failures. But don’t forget its lessons either.

[While] disappointment and failure aren’t identical, they often occur together, and both can hold us back from God’s best for our lives.

Disappointment and failure are not signs that God has forsaken you or stopped loving you. The devil wants you to believe God no longer loves you, but it isn’t true. God’s love for us never fails.

Compassion is not complete in itself, but must be accompanied by inflexible justice and wrath against sin and a desire for holiness.

On the cross Christ took upon Himself every sin we’ve ever committed—including anger.

Many people plan financially for retirement—but not spiritually and emotionally.

There is hope for the alcoholic: God is able to deliver from this as well as any other addiction.

Some [young people] are taking pills called “heaven or hell” drugs, because you’re liable to experience either one.

What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession.

Do not seek solace in alcohol. Alcohol obscures good judgment and leaves you unable to think clearly or understand what God is trying to say to you.

Drunkenness is not a new vice. Its ravages have always been a scourge on the human race . . .Alcohol is a killer, a murderer.

Among young people . . . drinking is for getting drunk. And many go on to become alcoholics.

God isn’t finished with you when you retire! When we know Christ, we never retire from His service.

We face dangers every day of which we are not even aware. Often God intervenes on our behalf through the use of His angels.

No form of government has been able to establish righteousness, justice, and peace, the three elements without which we can never have continued national prosperity or international peace.

The secret strength of a nation is found in the faith that abides in the hearts and homes of the country.

There is no doubt that nations come to an end when they have ceased to fulfill the function that God meant for them.

A terrifying spiritual and moral tide of evil has already loosed us from our spiritual moorings. Monstrous new ideas that could easily destroy our freedoms are rushing into the vacuum.

We must face honestly the toll that anger and bitterness take on our lives. They are our enemies! The Bible says, “An angry person stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered one commits many sins.

God honored and blessed America as few nations in history. However, in recent years the nation has been moving away from its religious heritage.

I believe America has gone a long way down the wrong road. If we ever needed God’s help, it is now.

You can put a public school and university in the middle of every block of every city in America—but you will never keep America from rotting morally by mere intellectual education.

When someone hurts us, our natural instinct is to strike back—but when we do, we not only destroy any possibility of reconciliation, but we also allow anger and hate to control us.

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.

Become grounded in the Bible. As Christians, we have only one authority, one compass: the Word of God.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Make the Bible part of your daily life, and ask God to engrave its truths on your soul.

The sword of the Spirit—the Bible—is the weapon God has provided for us to use in this battle between truth and deception. Make it a priority to wield that sword skillfully.

Today there are more people who know the words to a television commercial than know the words in the Bible.

Every graveyard and every cemetery testify that the Bible is true.

Let the study of the Bible become central in your life—not just so you will know it, but that you will obey it.