Billy Quotes

You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.

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

Fear can paralyze us and keep us from believing God and stepping out in faith. The devil loves a fearful Christian!

The Bible is clear that the Holy Spirit is God Himself.

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.

When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.

The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross.

Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it will be like.

A life touched by the Holy Spirit will tolerate sin no longer.

Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!

I am convinced that when a man sincerely searches for God with all his heart, God will reveal Himself in some way.

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

God has not promised to bless my thoughts, but He has promised to bless His Word.

Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.

I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.

When our faith becomes nothing more than a series of rules and regulations, joy flees and our love for Christ grows cold.

For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world.

Faith is loved and honored by God more than any other single thing.

The first time I toured the U.K. was in the early '90s with Billy Pilgrim, so I know how much the people there love music.

God isn’t finished with you when you retire! When we know Christ, we never retire from His service.

The evangelistic ministry is a fight, not a frolic.

When you pick up the cross of unpopularity, wherever you may be, you will find God’s grace is there, more than sufficient to meet your every need.

Some of the most radiant Christians I have ever met were “wheelchair” saints. May God give you grace to “triumph in affliction.

Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God!

The grace of God has been tested in the crucible of human experience, and has been found to be more than an equal for the problems and sins of humanity.

Throughout Scripture we read of warnings preceding disaster. Such alerts from God are part of His grace and provision.

I look forward to seeing Christ and bowing before Him in praise and gratitude for all He has done for us, and for using me on this earth by His grace—just as I am.

Envy and greed always—always—exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace.

The Bible warns us against greed and selfishness, it does encourage frugality and thrift.

The Bible sees greed as a form of idolatry, because a greedy person worships things instead of God. Greed and envy have their roots in selfishness.

Everything that we see about us that we count is our possessions only comprises a loan from God, and it is when we lose sight of this all-pervading truth that we become greedy and covetous.

Life is not a matter of dollars and cents, houses and lands, earning capacity and financial achievement. Greed must not be allowed to make man the slave of wealth.

Greed is an unreasonable or all-absorbing desire to acquire things or wealth. One test of greed is that it is never satisfied. Greed is repeatedly condemned in the Bible.

We need to be on guard against greed . . . above all we need to make sure our lives are centered in Christ and not things.

To be a disciple is to be committed to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and committed to following Him every day. To be a disciple is also to be disciplined in our bodies, minds, and souls.

Our minds must be set always to seek the will of the Lord. Following the progressive discipline revealed through the Bible will result in a walk of obedience to God.

It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.

Christ never told his disciples that they would get an Academy Award for their performances, but He did tell them to expect to have troubles.

Jesus Christ spoke frankly to His disciples concerning the future . . .In unmistakable language He told them that discipleship means a life of self-denial, and the bearing of a cross.

The Bible is God’s love letter to us.

The same Book that tells us over and over again of God’s love warns us constantly of the devil who would come between us and God, the devil who is ever waiting to ensnare men’s souls.

The Bible is God’s gift to us. It came from God, and it points us to God.

Most of us do not understand nuclear fission, but we accept it . . . Why is it so easy to accept manmade miracles and so difficult to accept the miracles of the Bible?

No book ever takes the place of the Bible. It is its own best commentary.

God has spoken to us through a Book: the Bible.

We should read the Bible expectantly, systematically, and obediently . . .The Bible can change our lives as we read it and obey its teachings every day.

The Bible is a living Book and can be trusted for its advice and direction and knowledge of God.

When you are told that science has disproved the Bible, ask specifically where such is the case. True science and a true understanding of the Bible are never at variance.

The whole world ought to know the story of the Bible.

To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high.