Graham Quotes

Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil with evil.

The unpardonable sin involves the total and irrevocable rejection of Jesus Christ.

Sin has tarnished every area of life, and [Christ] wants to erase its stain everywhere.

[The Bible] warns us about “the little foxes, that spoil the vines” [Song of Solomon 2:15 KJV]. This is a picture of the way “little” sinscan destroy our fruitfulness for the Lord.

It would be the greatest tragedy if I didn’t tell you that unless you repent of your sins and receive Christ as your Savior, you are going to be lost.

Scripture has the remedy for sinfulness.

Why did Jesus Christ leave heaven’s gloryand enter this sin-infested world? For one reason: to make our eternal salvation possible.

Sin lies at the heart of chaotic world conditions as we now know them and as they have existed through the centuries.

The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself as the sacrifice required by the justice of God if man was to be redeemed.

Nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.

Sin is rebellion against God.

God can break the chain of every sin that binds you if you are willing to give it up. He comes into your heart and gives you power to overcome sin.

Evil is real—but so is God’s power and love.

In the end there will be people who did the work of the Lord. They were busy in the church. They had done many wonderful works. But Jesus Himself says, “I never knew you” [Matthew 7:23 NKJV].

When comfort and ease and pleasure are put ahead of duty and conviction, progress is always set back.

It is the Holy Spirit who brings about conviction [of sin] . . .repentance cannot take place unless first there is a movement of the Holy Spirit in the heart and mind.

Anyone who has genuinely seen God is deeply convicted of his or her own sin.

God often gives us an inner conviction or prompting to confirm which way He wants us to go. This prompting comes from the Holy Spirit.

The book of Revelation may be difficult and demanding to read, yet it is the only biblical book whose author promises a blessing to those who read it.

I believe that this world, as we know it, will come to an end . . . This is not fanciful imagination but the clear and repeated testimony of the Bible.

Revelation is a pastor’s letter to his floundering flock, an urgent telegram bearing a brilliant battle plan for a people at war.

We see the storm clouds gathering and events taking place that herald the second coming of Jesus Christ.

The study [of Revelation] instructs us not only about the storms to come, but how to endure and come through them with great victory.

A new world is coming . . . The paradise that man lost will be regained . . . One day we will live in a brand-new world.

I have become more deeply aware of the enormous problems that face our world today, and the dangerous trends which seem to beleading our world to the brink of Armageddon.

When the “evil day” comes, we do not have to be dependent upon the circumstances around us, but rather on the resources of God!

We are told in Scripture that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord.I believe that we see those signs in the world today. I believe that the coming of the Lord is near.

The world is heading for another major crisis that is being called, even by the secular world, “Armageddon.

[It] is well and good when our convictions are based upon the “Thou shalts” and the “Thou shalt nots” of Scripture rather than our own ideas.

The Bible tells us that the state of the world will grow darker as we near the end of the age.

Bible teaching about the Second Coming of Christ was thought of as “doomsday” preaching. But not anymore. It is the only ray of hope that shines as an ever brightening beam in a darkening world.

I have read the last page of the Bible. It isall going to turn out all right.

Compromising and conforming to the world’sstandard is against God’s Word.

The devil has successfully fooled many churches, convincing them to follow the world. Biblical standards have been compromised by convenient social theories.

Be attractive and winsome, but do not compromise your convictions for the sake of popularity.

Temptation: Recognize it for what it is, and then reject it—immediately and without compromise.

Only a strong faith—a faith based on God’s Word—will protect us from temptation and doubt.

Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil.

Many Christians give in to various temptations through peer pressure and find themselves surrendering to worldly passions, justifying pleasures the world offers.

Be sure that Satan will tempt you at your weak point, not the strong.

Be very sure that you do not deliberately place yourself in a position to be tempted.

Every stage of life has its own temptations and dangers, and Satan will do all he can to exploit them . . .the time to prepare is now, not when it arrives.

Everyone has temptations but some folks entertain them . . .Get your eyes off the temptation and onto Christ!

We can’t flee from temptation in our own strength—but God will give us the strength we need, if we’ll only seek it. A friend of mine says, “When the devil knocks, I just send Jesus to the door!

When Jesus was tempted, He didn’t debate the devil. He quoted Scripture: “It is written . . . It is written . . . It is written” (Matthew 4:4–10 NKJV). And each time the devil was defeated.

A call for national and individual repentance is urgently needed today, or judgment is certain to fall.

Hundreds of passages point to a time of judgment for every person who has ever lived—none will escape. If you took all the references to judgment out of the Bible, you would have little Bible left.

Integrity means that if our private life was suddenly exposed, we’d have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.

God has already set the date [for judgment]. You may make and break appointments in this life, but this is one appointment you are going to keep.

People judge us not by what we think or believe, but by what we do—and when our lives don’t measure up, we lose their respect and they conclude our faith isn’t real.