Billy Graham Quotes

Most of us do not understand nuclear fission, but we accept it. I don't understand television, but I accept it. I don't understand radio, but every week my voice goes out around the world, and I accept it. Why is it so easy to accept all these man-made miracles and so difficult to accept the miracles of the Bible?

I'm not an analyzer. I've got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don't analyze people.

All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

Kindness is an essential part of Gods work and ours here on earth.

It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.

If you find a perfect church don't join it: You'd spoil it.

In a country where Christians were looked upon with suspicion and disfavor, a government leader said to me with a twinkle in his eye, 'Christians seem to thrive under persecution. Perhaps we should prosper them, and then they would disappear.'

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

World travel and getting to know clergy of all denominations has helped mold me into an ecumenical being. We're separated by theology and, in some instances, culture and race, but all that means nothing to me any more.

When we live apart from God, our lives get out of tune - out of harmony with others and with God. But if we live in tune with the Master, we, too, will find ourselves surrounded by His beautiful music. As this new year begins, ask God to help you tune your life every day to His Word, so you can bring harmony and joy to those around you.

There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us.

Your salvation depends on what [Christ] has done for you, not on what you do for Him. It isn't your hold on God that saves you. It's His hold on you.

The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.

Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched by pain tend to be shallow in their perspectives on life. Suffering, on the other hand, tends to plow up the surface of our lives to uncover the depths that provide greater strength of purpose and accomplishment. Only deeply plowed earth can yield bountiful harvests.

I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.

The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.

Its either Christ or the other god.

Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn't in you.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

The problems of peace are greater than the problems of war.

Prayer is spiritual communication between man and God, a two-way relationship in which man should not only talk to God but also listen to Him. Prayer to God is like a child's conversation with his father. It is natural for a child to ask his father for the things he needs.

In my travels I have found that those who keep Heaven in view remain serene and cheerful in the darkest day. If the glories of Heaven were more real to us, if we lived less for material things and more for things eternal and spiritual, we would be less easily disturbed by this present life.

Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.

I am not a televangelist.

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

First of all, you have to meet God with light! I do not believe that any man, that any man can solve the problems of life without Jesus Christ.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Why should we give God thanks? Because everything we have comes from God.

I trust Jesus with all my tomorrows, knowing that He will solve the mystery of life beyond the grave.

I believe one of the next great moves of God is going to be through the believers in the workplace.

God never tempts any man. That is Satan's business.

In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.

The key word of the dedicated Christian should be 'give.' Charitable contributions speak eloquently of your unselfish Christian generosity.

Not to decide is to decide not to, nowhere in the bible does it promise tomorrow.

The word of God teaches that Christians suffer in order that they might glorify God in their lives.

In a very real sense, the suffering of this world was created by man himself.

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.

If you don't make a decision then time will make it for you and time will always side against you!

Homes that are built on anything other than love are bound to crumble.

Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.

What makes us Christians shrug our shoulders when we ought to be flexing our muscles? What makes us apathetic in a day when there are loads to lift, a world to be won and captives to be set free? Why are so many bored when the times demand action?

Jesus used the carefree attitude of the birds to underscore the fact that worrying is unnatural. I am learning in my own life, day by day, to keep my mind centered on Christ.

The Bible stresses that a marriage ideally should be a picture or a reflection of Christ's love for His people.

Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.

Ringing assurance that we are not alone... That we are assisted and defended by a powerful and glorious order of invisible Beings.