Billy Graham Quotes

There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul.

Heaven will be the perfection we've always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.

The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.

Two conflicting forces cannot exist in one human heart. When doubt reigns, faith cannot abide. Where hatred rules, love is crowded out. Where selfishness rules, there love cannot dwell. When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Evil is real - but so is God's power and love.

Tim Keller's ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him.

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

Serve God and live; serve these other gods and died.

I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all.

The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.

Don't let circumstances distress you. Rather, look for the will of God for your life to be revealed in and through those circumstances.

The most thrilling thing about heaven is that Jesus Christ will be there. I will see Him face to face. Jesus Christ will meet us at the end of life's journey.

Living for Christ is a day-to-day going on with Him. It is a continuous dependence upon the Spirit of God. It is believing in His faithfulness.

The Bible is the Constitution of Christianity.

I think we should love sinners, and welcome them, and open our arms to them, and then we don't totally accept them into our fellowship as believers and as Christians until they have repented their sins and changed their way of living.

Knowing we will be with Christ forever far outweighs our burdens today! Keep your eyes on eternity!

You possess a non-renewable resource, which is headed toward total depletion and that resource is time. You can either invest your life or let it dribble through your fingers like sand in an hour glass. If there is ever a time to redeem every second, every minute it is now. You may never have tomorrow. You can't count your days, but with the Lord as your Savior you can make your days count.

... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.

Think of working forever at something you love to do, for one you love with all your heart, and never getting tired! We will never know weariness in heaven.

I don't think there is a single social issue I haven't spoken on.

God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.

One of the primary goals in life ... should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service.

... our little things are all big to God's love; our big things are all small to His power.

The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.

We are more united than ever before. I think this was exemplified in a very moving way when the members of our Congress stood shoulder to shoulder the other day and sang God Bless America.

God can use the fear that grips the hearts of men today to point them to eternal truths- the truth of God's eternal judgment, and the truth of His eternal love.

Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.

Live each day as if it were your last for some day it will be.

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word.

When life is hard it's easy to focus only on the bad things and forget all about the good things God has given us. But God has blessed every one of us in ways we often overlook.

Chose you this day whom, not tomorrow, whom you'll serve?

There is no scriptural basis for segregation. The ground at the foot of the cross is level, and it touches my heart when I see whites standing shoulder to shoulder with blacks at the cross.

Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.

The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection.

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.

We are not cistern made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

Jesus was not a white man; He was not a black man. He came from that part of the world that touches Africa and Asia and Europe. Christianity is not a white man's religion and don't let anybody ever tell you that it's white or black. Christ belongs to all people; He belongs to the whole world.

The philosopher says think your way out. The sensualist says play your way out but none of it works.

Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.

Men change, fashions change, conditions and circumstances change, but God never changes.

I don't go out and preach because of my desire as much as I go out to fulfill the command of Christ. He said, "Go!" to all of His disciples, and we're to go and witness to Christ by the way we live and by our verbal witness about the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ and about the need to repent and believe. I've never had any doubts about my call.

Like a spring of pure water, God's peace in our hearts brings cleansing and refreshment to our minds and bodies

The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.

But those who chose to reject God during their lifetime on earth will be separated from him for eternity. This is not God's desire, but man's own choice. God holds every man accountable for his rejection of Christ.