Billy Graham Quotes

Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil with evil.

The unpardonable sin involves the total and irrevocable rejection of Jesus Christ.

Sin has tarnished every area of life, and [Christ] wants to erase its stain everywhere.

[The Bible] warns us about “the little foxes, that spoil the vines” [Song of Solomon 2:15 KJV]. This is a picture of the way “little” sinscan destroy our fruitfulness for the Lord.

It would be the greatest tragedy if I didn’t tell you that unless you repent of your sins and receive Christ as your Savior, you are going to be lost.

Scripture has the remedy for sinfulness.

Why did Jesus Christ leave heaven’s gloryand enter this sin-infested world? For one reason: to make our eternal salvation possible.

Sin lies at the heart of chaotic world conditions as we now know them and as they have existed through the centuries.

The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself as the sacrifice required by the justice of God if man was to be redeemed.

Nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.

Sin is rebellion against God.

God can break the chain of every sin that binds you if you are willing to give it up. He comes into your heart and gives you power to overcome sin.

Evil is real—but so is God’s power and love.

In the end there will be people who did the work of the Lord. They were busy in the church. They had done many wonderful works. But Jesus Himself says, “I never knew you” [Matthew 7:23 NKJV].

When comfort and ease and pleasure are put ahead of duty and conviction, progress is always set back.

It is the Holy Spirit who brings about conviction [of sin] . . .repentance cannot take place unless first there is a movement of the Holy Spirit in the heart and mind.

Anyone who has genuinely seen God is deeply convicted of his or her own sin.

God often gives us an inner conviction or prompting to confirm which way He wants us to go. This prompting comes from the Holy Spirit.

The book of Revelation may be difficult and demanding to read, yet it is the only biblical book whose author promises a blessing to those who read it.

I believe that this world, as we know it, will come to an end . . . This is not fanciful imagination but the clear and repeated testimony of the Bible.

Revelation is a pastor’s letter to his floundering flock, an urgent telegram bearing a brilliant battle plan for a people at war.

We see the storm clouds gathering and events taking place that herald the second coming of Jesus Christ.

The study [of Revelation] instructs us not only about the storms to come, but how to endure and come through them with great victory.

A new world is coming . . . The paradise that man lost will be regained . . . One day we will live in a brand-new world.

I have become more deeply aware of the enormous problems that face our world today, and the dangerous trends which seem to beleading our world to the brink of Armageddon.

When the “evil day” comes, we do not have to be dependent upon the circumstances around us, but rather on the resources of God!

We are told in Scripture that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord.I believe that we see those signs in the world today. I believe that the coming of the Lord is near.

The Holy Spirit can take God’s word of truthand minister it to our deepest needs.

Jesus expects one hundred percent surrender, and when that is accomplished He rewards a thousandfold.

Surrendering to Christ is like signing your name to a blank check and letting the Lord put in the amount.

In our spiritual pilgrimage we see sins which mar our relationship with God, but beneath it is a commitment which seeks to move beyond to a higher life, based on wholehearted surrender to God.

Pentecost was the day of power of the Holy Spirit. It was the day the Christian church was born.

The blood of Christ purchased the church.

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.

Movie and television stars lay down the law offashions, manners, speech, and even moral behavior. It has been proven that a movie or a television program can brainwash.

New morality is nothing more than the old immorality brought up to date.

Because truth is unpopular does not mean that it should not be proclaimed.

Our emotions can lie to us, and we need to counter our emotions with truth.

Where there is truth and error there is always compromise. Within some churches there is a movement to reshape the Christian messageto make it more acceptable to man.

If our minds and hearts are not filled with God’s truth, something else will take His place: cynicism, occultism, false religions and philosophies, drugs—the list is endless.

What happens when lying and stealing and immorality and murder become the norm? The result can be summarized in one word: chaos.

When we all stand before the judgment seat of Christ, we will have our true motives revealed.

No one spoke more about hell than Jesus did, and the hell He came to save men from was not only a hell on earth . . .it was something to come.

The Bible says more about hell than about heaven.

The Ten Commandments are just as valid today as they were when God gave them. They reflect the moral character of God, and they also provide the foundation of right living with others.

The fact that immorality is rampant throughout the nation doesn’t make it right!

Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness.

We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with God’s moral code.

It is far better to know God’s truth than to be ignorant of it.

Honesty means exactly what it says. We are honest and trustworthy in all our dealings. People can trust our word, because we refuse to lie or shade the truth.