Graham Quotes

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

Satan rejoices when we are inconsistent, because he knows that an inconsistent Christian is an ineffective Christian—or worse.

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!

Satan does not care how much you theorize about Christianity or how much you profess to know Christ. What he opposes vigorously is the way you live Christ.

We must be constantly aware that Satan can take any human effort and twist it to serve his own purposes.

Only God can thwart the plans of Satan and his legions.

If you are not careful you will find yourself actually in the employ of the devil. He is powerful, slick, crafty, wily, and subtle.

One of the devil’s methods is to attack everyone . . . He knows that the Word of God is powerful, and he will try to keep you from it.

When we are filled with the Spirit of God, obeying God, in His will and quoting Scripture, Satan will be defeated.

Jesus did not dispute [Satan] . . . our Lord quoted Scripture, and that’s one thing the devil can’t stand! The Scripture defeats him every time.

As long as Satan is loose in the world and our hearts are dominated by his evil passions, it will never be easy or popular to be a follower of Christ.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Fear can banish faith, but faith can banish fear.

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

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

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.

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.

Happiness is a choice, but grief is a certainty.

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

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

God’s laws for the spiritual world are found in the Bible. Whatever else there may be that tells us of God, it is more clearly told in 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.

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

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

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?

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

The Bible is a guidebook, leading men [and women] to God in a personal faith. Like a map or guidebook, it will show you the way, but you must take it one step at a time.

I’m afraid most Bibles remain unopened and unread. Don’t let this be true of yours!

The vitality [of] the Bible [is] exhibited in every generation . . .Its power to transform lives is its best apologetic.

Just as the Bible is God’s written Word, so Jesus is God’s living Word.

One can approach the Bible with a cold, rationalistic attitude, or one can do so with reverence and the desire to hear God speak.

I do not understand why reading the Bible in public should make others feel uncomfortable . . . it may be such an example that serves to remind them of the Book they have neglected.

The [Bible’s] message is concerned with earth dwellers, their origin, the reason for their existence, the cause of their misery, and the plan of redemption for a fallen race.

We are not free to pick and choose the parts of the Bible we want to believe or obey. God has given us all of it, and we should be obedient to all of it.

Psalms teaches us how to relate to God, and Proverbs teaches us how to relate to others.

The Bible is our authority in everything it touches. This means the Bible is our guide to show us how to live . . . it is our instructor.

The Bible has stood the test of time because it is divinely inspired by Almighty God, written in ink that cannot be erased by any man, religion, or belief system.

Man has not changed. Man still rejects the testimony of the Scripture.

Every generation has found [the Bible’s] message indispensable, and its influence on individuals and society over the centuries has been enormous.

The Bible . . . is the only Book that offers man a redemption and points the way out of his dilemmas. It is our one sure guide in an unsure world.

God gave the Bible to us because He wants us to know Him and love Him and serve Him. Most of all, He gave it to us so we can become more like Christ.

Some of the strongest warnings about judgment in the Bible come from the lips of Jesus.

Man is precisely what the Bible says he is. Human nature is behaving exactly as the Bible said it would. The course of human events is flowing just as Christ predicted.

The Bible teaches that man’s chief problem is spiritual.

Without the Bible, this world would indeed be a dark and frightening place, without signpost or beacon.