Graham Quotes
I don’t think people can live without hope. What oxygen is to the lungs, hope is to our survival in this world. And the Bible is filled with hope.
The Bible is the constant fountain for faith, conduct, and inspiration from which we drink daily.
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 . . . 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.
Without the Bible, this world would indeed be a dark and frightening place, without signpost or beacon.
Those who read the Scriptures as magnificent literature, breath-taking poetry, or history and overlook the story of salvation miss the Bible’s real meaning and message.
God never leads us to do anything that is contrary to the Bible.
Our emotions can lie to us, and we need to counter our emotions with truth.
Among those Christians to whom hell means little, Calvary means less.
The Bible teaches there is hell for every person who willingly and knowingly rejects Christ as Lord and Savior. Many passages could be quoted to support that fact.
Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality of such a place.
A seminary professor I once knew told his students, “Never preach about hell without tears in your eyes.
I would not change places with the wealthiest and most influential person in the world. I would rather be a child of the King, a joint-heir with Christ, a member of the Royal Family of heaven!
Apart from religious influence, the family is the most important unit of society.
It doesn’t take great wealth or social influence to be faithful, but it does take obedience and endurance.
The way in which we react to hurts and disappointments influences the shaping of our personalities.
Salt and light speak of the influence Christians can exercise for good in society.
We must understand what the word believe implies. It means “commit” and “surrender.
Faith actually means surrender and commitment to the claims of Christ. It means an acknowledgment of sin and a turning to Christ.
Jesus expects one hundred percent surrender, and when that is accomplished He rewards a thousandfold.
Surrendering to Christ is like signing your name to a blank check and letting the Lord put in the amount.
In our spiritual pilgrimage we see sins which mar our relationship with God, but beneath it is a commitment which seeks to move beyond to a higher life, based on wholehearted surrender to God.
Pentecost was the day of power of the Holy Spirit. It was the day the Christian church was born.
I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.
Movie and television stars lay down the law offashions, manners, speech, and even moral behavior. It has been proven that a movie or a television program can brainwash.
New morality is nothing more than the old immorality brought up to date.
Because truth is unpopular does not mean that it should not be proclaimed.
Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness.
Unless men of purpose, integrity, and faith stand together in unswerving loyalty to Jesus Christ, the future of the world is dark indeed.
Integrity means that we are trustworthy and dependable, and our character is above reproach.
God’s standard is expressed in the Bible, and the ultimate example of that standard is Jesus Christ. When we live by the truth, we possess integrity.
Being pure in conduct also includes honesty and integrity in dealing with our fellowmen. A Christian should be known in his neighborhood or place of business as an honest person.
When we all stand before the judgment seat of Christ, we will have our true motives revealed.
No one spoke more about hell than Jesus did, and the hell He came to save men from was not only a hell on earth . . .it was something to come.
The Ten Commandments are just as valid today as they were when God gave them. They reflect the moral character of God, and they also provide the foundation of right living with others.
The fact that immorality is rampant throughout the nation doesn’t make it right!
Honesty means exactly what it says. We are honest and trustworthy in all our dealings. People can trust our word, because we refuse to lie or shade the truth.
Where there is truth and error there is always compromise. Within some churches there is a movement to reshape the Christian messageto make it more acceptable to man.
If our minds and hearts are not filled with God’s truth, something else will take His place: cynicism, occultism, false religions and philosophies, drugs—the list is endless.
The Holy Spirit can take God’s word of truthand minister it to our deepest needs.
It is far better to know God’s truth than to be ignorant of it.
We have glamorized vice and minimized virtue. We have played down gentleness, manners, and morals—while we have played up rudeness, savagery, and vice . . . and the philosophy of “might is right.
What happens when lying and stealing and immorality and murder become the norm? The result can be summarized in one word: chaos.
The Bible teaches that man can undergo a radical spiritual and moral change that is brought about by God Himself.