I think we are trying to run the space age with horse and buggy moral and spiritual equipment. Technology you see has no morals; and with no moral restraints man will destroy himself ecologically, militarily, or in some other way. Only God can give a person moral restraints and spiritual strength.
Billy GrahamHundreds 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.
Billy GrahamNo man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you.
Billy GrahamThere is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan's first temptation of Adam and Eve: "Ye shall be as gods." (Gen. 3:5)
Billy GrahamI'm against divorce. I think the Bible teaches that divorce is wrong, but at the same time, I also believe that the Bible has a leave way; Jesus said that a person should not be divorced and should not be separated. But in the Old Testament, men could have more than one wife under certain circumstances. And there must be reasons for that. And I think that some of them are valid reasons.
Billy GrahamChurchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.
Billy GrahamI'm not a righteous man. People put me up on a pedestal that I don't belong in my personal life. And they think that I'm better than I am. I'm not the good man that people think I am. Newspapers and magazines and television have made me out to be a saint. I'm not. I'm not a Mother Teresa. And I feel that very much.
Billy GrahamCommunism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.
Billy GrahamI believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.
Billy GrahamTears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Billy GrahamFreedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.
Billy GrahamDon't apologize for who you are and what you've done in the past. Be who you are and do what you do.
Billy GrahamIf your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.
Billy GrahamEven if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.
Billy GrahamBeing a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
Billy GrahamIn one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.
Billy GrahamIf we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.
Billy GrahamArt and education may refine the taste, but they cannot purify the heart and regenerate the individual. His (Christ’s) words were simple yet profound. And they shook people, provoking either happy acceptance or violent refection. People were never the same after listening to him….The people who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
Billy GrahamSuffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence.
Billy GrahamAnxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will.
Billy GrahamI'd grown up in a Presbyterian church, but I really didn't know Christ personally in my heart. I knew him, but I didn't know him. And there's a difference between an intellectual faith and a personal, heart faith in which I opened my heart to him and let him rule my life.
Billy GrahamThe secret of a happy home is that members of the family learn to give and receive love.
Billy GrahamWe must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)
Billy GrahamYou have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God.
Billy GrahamWhat God is doing today is calling people out of the world for His name. Whether they come from the Muslim world, or the Buddhist world, or the Christian world, or the non-believing world, they are members of the body of Christ because they've been called by God. They may not even know the name of Jesus, but they know in their hearts they need something that they don't have and they turn to the only light they have and I think they're saved and they're going to be with us in heaven.
Billy GrahamAs a Christian I have hope not just for this life but for Heaven and the life to come. And many of those people who died this past week are in Heaven right now. And they wouldn't want to come back; it's so glorious and so wonderful. And that's the hope for all of us who put our faith in God. I pray that you will have this hope in your heart.
Billy GrahamOur valleys may be filled with foes and tears; but we can lift our eyes to the hills to see God and the angels, heaven's spectators, who support us according to God's infinite wisdom as they prepare our welcome home.
Billy GrahamMy job is simply to proclaim the Gospel, and to let the Spirit of God apply in the individual hearts. When I give the invitation for people to receive Christ it will be so quiet you can hear a pin drop. And you will see people coming forward deliberately, quietly, reverently, thoughtfully, and many of their lives. . . . will have been transformed and changed in that moment.
Billy GrahamI don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.
Billy GrahamI have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.
Billy GrahamThe thing that I remember the most in my childhood was the love of family and the discipline in the family. My father and mother both were disciplinarians, and they didn't mind using the rod. Maybe because I was the oldest child I always felt I got much more of it than anybody else.
Billy GrahamPrayer shouldn't be casual or sporadic, dictated only by the needs of the moment. Prayer should be as much a part of our lives as breathing.
Billy GrahamOften the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that person was kind to him or her.
Billy GrahamThe 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.
Billy GrahamIt is impossible to believe anything into existence. The gospel did not come into being because men believed it...The fact always precedes the faith.
Billy GrahamI am convinced that when a man sincerely searches for God with all his heart, God will reveal Himself in some way.
Billy GrahamIs it not arrogance or narrow-mindedness to claim that there is only one way of salvation or that the way we follow is the right way? I think not. After all, do we fault a pilot for being narrow-minded when he follows the instrument panel while landing in a rainstorm? No, we want him to remain narrowly focused!
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