Graham Quotes

You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.

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.

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

He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

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

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

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

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

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.

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

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.

A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.

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

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

Anyone can smile on their best day. I like to meet a man who can smile on his WORST.

In John 6 we read that when great multitudes went after Him, He told them three times that unless they were willing to pay the price, they could not be His followers.

It is the presence of sin that prevents man from being truly happy.

Christ said there is a happiness in that acknowledgement of spiritual poverty which lets God come into our souls.

God never leads us to do anything that is contrary to the Bible.

Happiness is a choice, but grief is a certainty.

Do you really want happiness? Then you will have to pay the price of humbling yourself at the foot of the cross and receiving Christ as Savior.

The mind is the devil’s favorite avenue of attack.

Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in thesimple and beautiful things around him.

Faith literally means “to give up, surrender, or commit.” Faith is complete confidence.

Do you want your faith to grow? Then let the Bible begin to saturate your mind and soul.

Fear can banish faith, but faith can banish fear.

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

I have yet to see Satan overcome a truly joyful Christian.

Before Satan there was no sin, and before sin there was no pain.

Jesus Himself was the first missionary . . .He pledged His followers to be missionaries too!

Your faith may be just a little thread. It may be small and weak, but act on that faith. It does not matter how big your faith is, but rather, where your faith is.

Since the Bible is God’s Word, we shouldn’t be surprised if Satan tries to convince us otherwise.

We are living in a topsy-turvy world, where all is confusion. But you may be sure that it is confusion with a plan—Satan’s plan!

Never forget: Death was Satan’s greatest victory.

Satan will thrash about in one last burst of evil, hoping to capture as many souls as possible before his inevitable end.

God—the Bible’s Author—loves you and wants you to be His child through faith in Jesus Christ.

Salvation is free, but there is a price to pay in following Jesus. It is never said in Scripture that we can have “Christ and . . .”.It is always “Christ or . . .”. What is your “or”?

God’s followers need to know the truth He sets forth in His Word so that we can confidently discern between His truth and Satan’s lies.

[Satan] will create a religion without a Redeemer. He will build a church without a Christ. He will call for worship without the Word of God.

The greatest roadblock to Satan’s work is the Christian who, above all else, lives for God, walks with integrity, is filled with the Spirit, and is obedient to God’s truth.

The men who followed Jesus were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up.

The greatest hindrance to Satan’s destructive efforts is our standing strong in the knowledge and fear of the Lord.

We constantly pass up the rich and beautiful and ennobling experiences and seek out the tawdry, the cheap, and the degrading. These are the works of the devil, and they flourish on every side!