Billy Graham Quotes

Wherever the Word of God is hidden or ignored, there will be certain destruction.

Don’t rebel, but give God the opportunity to change your life and help you over the problems of youth, for they are many.

Do young people have the moral stamina to carry through in case of economic depression? . . . The real tests of the [younger] generations have not yet come, but they are on their way!

The Bible teaches that there will be a famine of the Word of God in the last days . . . spiritual starvation leads to spiritual death.

Confrontation is the special business of young people. They confront their parents, peers, society, law enforcement officers, and themselves, but primarily they confront God.

What is the most difficult word for young people to pronounce? It’s the word no. When we say no [to what is against God], He will help us to stand by it. He will give us courage.

It is strange that the world accepts enthusiasm in every realm but the spiritual.

We don’t live in an ideal world, but in a world dominated by sinful, selfish desires.

Worldliness is an inner attitude that puts self at the center of life instead of God.

Too many times we are concerned with how much, instead of how little, like this [world] we can become.

The saddest words I can ever imagine would be to hear the Lord say, “I never knew you. Away from Me” [Matthew 7:23 NIV].

It often takes a tragedy to open our hearts, minds, and wills to the truth of God’s Word.

While those around you are filling their minds with the bad news about man in their daily papers, steep yourself in the good news about God in His precious Word!

Don’t argue with [a professor], but test everything he says in the light of God’s Word.

We need to fortify ourselves with the Word of God.

I look upon it as a lost day when I have not had a good time over the Word of God.

Some, who doubt that the Bible is the true Word of God, doubt it because they are unwilling to ascribe to God anything they cannot themselves achieve.

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God’s Word.

As Christians, we have only one authority, one compass: the Word of God.

Nothing will help us grow spiritually more than spending time alone with God every day, reading His Word and praying. Time alone with God is essential to our spiritual welfare.

The Old Testament may not seem relevant to us today—but it is, because it is part of God’s Holy Word, and He has much to teach us through its pages.

Through the written Word we discover the Living Word—Jesus Christ.

God never leads us to do anything that is contrary to His Word. But the opposite is also true: God always leads us to do everything that is in agreement with His Word.

Who can tell us how to get along with each other better than God? Where can we turn for wisdom better than God’s Word, the Bible?

A computer . . . has no worth unless it is programmed . . . The believer has tremendous potential, but that potential cannot be used until he is programmed with the Word of God.

The Spirit of God takes the Word of God and makes the child of God.

When I quote Scripture, I know I am quoting the very Word of God.

Scientific discoveries (not theories) are found more and more to fit into the record God has given us in His Word.

The fact that God is infinite makes the study of His Word a lifetime occupation.

God and God’s Word are inseparable.

I have never known a man who received Christ and ever regretted it.

The central theme of the universe is the purpose and destiny of every individual. Every person is important in God’s eyes.

In our day many people are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, and emptiness have gripped much of our world.

Man is not growing better! Man is not climbing upward. Instead of progress in man himself there is degeneracy—degeneracy of body, mind, and spirit. Man is going downhill.

Success stories may be great motivational material for sales seminars, but we are not always successful.

Time and tide and the ravages of sin take their toll on the most noble achievements of man.

Our job in life is not to be successful, but to be faithful.

This age is interested in success, not suffering . . . Our Lord was ridiculed, insulted, persecuted, and eventually killed. In the face of opposition, He went about “doing good.

Many of the wicked are receiving their wages now. Many Christians who may not be succeeding according to the world’s standards now, will reap great rewards in heaven.

The Western world’s sole objective seems to be success, status, security, self-indulgence, pleasure, and comfort.

Success or failure cannot be measured by any human standard.

God can take anything that happens to us—even bad things—and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person—if we will let Him.

Our personalities, our intelligence, and our capabilities are gifts from [God’s] own bountiful hand. If we divert their use for our own profit, we become guilty of selfishness.

Almost nothing is as complex as the human personality, and no simple formula will ever cover every situation or every relationship.

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

I am becoming aware of the truth that people change people as much as ideas change people.The power of personality is strong . . . often personality is greater than the idea.

The Bible says that God sees two classes of men. He sees the saved and the lost, those who are going to heaven and those who are going to hell.

Lying is one of the worst of all sins and can be committed by a thought, word, or deed. Anything that is intended to deceive another person is lying.

Tell me why the gardener trims and prunes his rosebushes, sometimes cutting away productive branches, and I will tell you why God’s people are afflicted. God’s hand never slips.

Someday all of us will give account of the way we have used the gifts God has given. The person to whom much has been given will find much required of him.