Billy Graham Quotes

Death reduces all men to the same rank. It strips the rich of his millions and the poor man of his rags . . .Death knows no age limits, no partiality. It is a thing that all men fear.

One of the primary goals in life should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.

Death for [a Christian] is no accident. With God there are no accidents, no tragedies, and no catastrophes as far as His children are concerned.

When we all reach the end of our earthly journey, we will have just begun.

From the moment a child is born, the death process, and the fight against it, begins.

Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project.

Christ did not die by accident. He died voluntarily in our place.

Someday this life will end, but for the Christian death also marks a beginning—the beginning of a new life with God that will last forever.

Death carries with it a certain dread. It [is] the enemy, the great, mysterious monster that makes people quake with fear.

Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon your shoulder and this brief message will be given: “Come home.

Death of the righteous . . . is not to be feared or shunned. It is the shadowed threshold to the palace of God.

We now have the advantage of a few years more of life, but death is still standing at the end of the road.

Cut out some of your “important social engagements, ” and make your home the center of your social life. God will honor you, and your children will grow up to call you “blessed” [Proverbs 31:28].

In many homes and among so-called educated people—it has become fashionable to joke about the Bible and to regard it more as a dust-catcher than as the living Word of God.

If there were no heaven and no hell, I would still want to be a Christian because of what it does for our homes and our own families in this life.

The world is not a permanent home, it is only a temporary dwelling.

It is far easier to live an excellent life among your friends, when you are putting your best foot forward and are conscious of public opinion, than it is to live for Christ in your home.

If you are a true Christian, you will not give way at home to bad temper, impatience, fault-finding, sarcasm, unkindness, suspicion, selfishness, or laziness.

The Bible takes the word home with all of its tender associations and sacred memories, and applies it to the hereafter and tells us that heaven is home.

God does not want an apartment in our house. He claims our entire home from attic to cellar.

One final reason for choosing God’s path is of supreme importance: It leads us home.

For the believer there is hope beyond the grave, because Jesus Christ has opened the door to heaven for us by His death and resurrection.

Faith points us beyond our problems to the hope we have in Christ.

Christ’s second coming reminds us that ultimately our hope is not in this world and its attempts to solve its problems, but in Christ’s promise to establish His perfect rule over all the earth.

Earth’s troubles fade in the light of heaven’s hope.

Only because Jesus is God and we have confessed Him as Savior and Lord, can He bestow and we receive these benefits, this blessed assurance and hope (see Romans 10:9).

All mankind is sitting on Death Row. How we die or when is not the main issue, but where [we] go after death.

Death is not a trip, but a destination.

Someone has said that death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life.

Sometimes . . . we grow homesick for heaven. Many times in the midst of the sin, suffering, and sorrow of this life there is a tug at our soul. That is homesickness coupled with anticipation.

My home is in heaven. I’m just passing through this world.

The Father is the source of all blessing, and the Son is the channel of all blessing, [and] it is through the Holy Spirit at work in us that all truth becomes living and operative in our lives.

The Holy Spirit not only convicts of sin but also convinces men that Jesus is the righteousness of God. He shows sinners that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.

The Scripture makes it clear that this planet would already be a literal hell on earth were it not for the presence of the Holy Spirit in the world.

The Holy Spirit can rejuvenate a tired Christian, captivate an indifferent believer, and empower a dry church.

If we feed our spiritual lives and allow the Holy Spirit to empower us, He will have rule over us. If we starve our spiritual natures and instead feed the old, sinful nature, the flesh will dominate.

Faithfulness is produced by the Holy Spirit in a yielded Christian life.

It is never a question of how much you and I have of the Spirit, but how much He has of us.

Because [the Holy Spirit] is a spirit, [He] isn’t limited by time or space. He can be everywhere at once. He is in the midst of the largest galaxy—and the smallest atom.

Sometimes I feel so helpless and inadequate, and wonder if I have done enough to make the Gospel clear. But I also know that only the Holy Spirit can open others’ eyes to the truth.

The home is basically a sacred institution . . . Faith in Christ is the most important of all principles in the building of a happy marriage and a successful home.

Home was a refuge for me, a place I could truly relax.

The Bible teaches that our homes should be hospitable and that those who come in and out of our homes should sense the presence of Christ.

The happiest Christian homes I know are those given to hospitality, where neighbors feel at home, where young people are welcome, where the elderly are respected, where children are loved.

The heart of the Christian Gospel with its incarnation and atonement is in the cross and the resurrection. Jesus was born to die.

Why is it that the cross has become the symbol of Christianity? It is because at the cross Jesus purchased our redemptionand provided a righteousness which we could not ourselves earn.

The ground is level at the foot of the cross.

It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put [Jesus] on the cross—it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer his death.

Two thousand years ago God invited a morally corrupt world to the foot of the cross. There God held your sins and mine to the flames until every last vestige of our guilt was consumed.

It has been said there was a cross in the heart of God long before the cross was erected at Calvary. As we think about it we will be overwhelmed at the wonder and greatness of His love for us.