Graham Quotes

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

[Angels] guide, comfort, and provide for the people of God in the midst of suffering and persecution.

A terrifying spiritual and moral tide of evil has already loosed us from our spiritual moorings. Monstrous new ideas that could easily destroy our freedoms are rushing into the vacuum.

There is no doubt that nations come to an end when they have ceased to fulfill the function that God meant for them.

The secret strength of a nation is found in the faith that abides in the hearts and homes of the country.

No form of government has been able to establish righteousness, justice, and peace, the three elements without which we can never have continued national prosperity or international peace.

We face dangers every day of which we are not even aware. Often God intervenes on our behalf through the use of His angels.

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

Among young people . . . drinking is for getting drunk. And many go on to become alcoholics.

Drunkenness is not a new vice. Its ravages have always been a scourge on the human race . . .Alcohol is a killer, a murderer.

Do not seek solace in alcohol. Alcohol obscures good judgment and leaves you unable to think clearly or understand what God is trying to say to you.

What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession.

Some [young people] are taking pills called “heaven or hell” drugs, because you’re liable to experience either one.

There is hope for the alcoholic: God is able to deliver from this as well as any other addiction.

Many people plan financially for retirement—but not spiritually and emotionally.

Old age is Satan’s last chance to blow us off course.

One of the characteristics of some drugs (such as cocaine) is that they make a person feel strong and alert—when in fact the opposite is the case. Don’t allow yourself to be deceived.

God wants us to work (whether at home or on the job), but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong to retire. The Levites (who assisted in Israel’s worship) were required to retire at fifty.

Ask [God] to help you reflect Christ as you grow older, instead of turning sour or grumpy.

Life can grow sweeter and more rewarding as we grow older if we possess the presence of Christ. Sunsets are always glorious. It is Christ who adds colors, glory, and beauty to man’s sunsets.

Many people are trying to steady themselves by taking tranquilizers. Jesus is the greatest tranquilizer of all. He can straighten out your life and put you back on center.

Some people seem to put the devil on a par with God. Actually, Satan is a fallen angel.

The Bible condemns the use of any substance which alters or distorts our thinking (including alcohol, which was the most common drug in ancient times).

God’s holiness demands that sin be punished—but God’s love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.

To know the will of God is the highest of all wisdom. Living in the center of God’s will rules out all falseness of religion and puts the stamp of true sincerity upon our service to God.

God will never—never—lead you to do something that is contrary to His written Word, the Bible.