Billy Graham Quotes

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

Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world’s goods.

The Bible is the one book which reveals the Creator to the creature He created! No other book that man has conceived can make that statement and support it with fact.

There is no conclusive scientific evidence that man is “up from the ape.” While the animals were created “after their kind, ” we are told that “God created man in His own image” [Genesis 1:27 NKJV].

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

God is the Ruler of His mighty creation. There is no reason to despair, because He holds in His hands the whole world, while His Spirit is able to fill the void in man’s heart.

[God] has in mind a picture of what He intends to create. He breaks, cracks, chisels, and polishes until one day there emerges His vision . . . God has not yet finished with us.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilty conscience were worse than prison bars.

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

The human conscience is reliable only when it is guided by the Holy Spirit.

Some Christians have an elastic conscience when it comes to their own foibles—and an ironbound conscience when it comes to the foibles of others.

Sin also affects the conscience, until one becomes slow to detect the approach of sin.

There are storms in your own life: storms oftemptation, confusion, and difficulty . . .An uneasy conscience says, “Stop before it is too late!

As a person finds God’s will for his or her life, matters of conscience can be handled with perception from the Holy Spirit.

From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life.

The one and only choice by which you can be converted is your choice to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as your own personal Lord and Savior. The word “conversion” means simply “turning.

In every true conversion the will of man comes into line with the will of God.

The converted person will love the good he once hated, and hate the sin he once loved.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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

We have been trying to solve every ill of society as though society were made up of regenerate men to whom we had an obligationto speak with Christian advice.

God’s church is a Bible-centered church, and it grows strong under persecution.

Before three thousand people were brought into the church on the day of Pentecost, the disciples had spent fifty days in prayer, fasting, and spiritual travail.