Billy Graham Quotes

Living for Christ is a day-to-day going on with Him. It is a continuous dependence upon the Spirit of God. It is believing in His faithfulness.

Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.

Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have a job leading worship.

[There are] seven gifts God gives you when you commit your life to Christ: a new relationship, a new citizenship, a new family, a new purpose, a new power, a new destiny, and a new journey.

We are not cistern made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

If your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.

There is no joy in life like the joy of sharing.

When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."

The Christian should stand out like a sparkling diamond.

Salvation is free! God puts no price tag on the Gift of gifts.

The Bible stresses that a marriage ideally should be a picture or a reflection of Christ's love for His people.

Sin was conquered on the cross. Christ's death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph.

Prayer shouldn't be casual or sporadic, dictated only by the needs of the moment. Prayer should be as much a part of our lives as breathing.

Life is a glorious opportunity, if it is used to condition us for eternity. If we fail in this, though we succeed in everything else, our life will have been a failure.

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it does teach that sin shall no longer reign over you.

No nation is ever taller than when on its knees.

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.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

To drive to extinction something He has created is wrong. He has a purpose for everything... We Christians have a responsibility to take the lead in caring for the earth.

God knows what is best for you, and He wants to reveal it to you and show you what you ought to do.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.

I never saw a U-Haul behind a hearse.

Just because the truth is unpopular doesn't mean that it should not be proclaimed.

God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness.

God never tempts any man. That is Satan's business.

Everything we have comes from (God's) hands; even if we worked for it or earned it, He still gave us the ability and the opportunity to do it.

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.

The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.

Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God's Word.

... the same hand that made trees and fields and flowers, the seas and hills, the clouds and sky, has been making a home for us called heaven.

Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin.

The Holy Spirit gives liberty to the Christian, direction to the worker, discernment to the teacher, power to the Word, and fruit to faithful service. He reveals the things of Christ.

You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.

Even when life may be difficult, we should thank God for all He does for us-which we do not deserve.

It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.

There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three.

The greatest miracle of the Bible is that the prophets of Israel could keep a religion as clean as a hounds tooth amid all the corruption and idolatry of the nations surrounding them.

The secret of a happy home is that members of the family learn to give and receive love.

The Spirit goes ahead of us when we witness--- preparing the way, giving us the words, and granting us courage.

I believe one of the next great moves of God is going to be through the believers in the workplace.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

We have found that marriage should be made up of two forgivers. We need to learn to say, "I was wrong, I'm sorry." And we also need to say, "That's all right, I love you."

I am against abortion; I think that life is sacred and we should take a position of being against abortion. I think it is wrong to take human life. I think that human life starts at conception.

Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!

A checkbook is a theological document, it will tell you who and what you worship.

If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.

Knowing we will be with Christ forever far outweighs our burdens today! Keep your eyes on eternity!

If it weren't for God's grace, you and I wouldn't be able to live for even one more minute.