Quotes by Evangelists - Page 6

We must repent of our prayerlessness. We must make prayer our priority. Even our churches today have gotten away from prayer meetings.

Billy Graham

It is unbelief that shuts the door to heaven and opens it to hell. It is unbelief that rejects the Word of God and refuses Christ as Savior. It is unbelief that causes men to turn a deaf ear to the Gospel.

Billy Graham

To know the will of God is the highest of all wisdom. Living in the center of God’s will rules out all falseness of religion and puts the stamp of true sincerity upon our service to God.

Billy Graham

True repentance is a turning from sin . . . Humanly speaking, it is our small part in the plan of salvation. Our part is repenting. God will do the converting, the transforming, and the forgiving.

Billy Graham

God gave us our children so we could prepare them to become adults.

Billy Graham

We see the storm clouds gathering and events taking place that herald the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Billy Graham

No one can grasp the love of the God of the universe without knowing His Son.

Billy Graham

Are you disappointed with society? If you are,I challenge you to take the first step. I challenge you to look at yourself.

Billy Graham

If God were to eradicate all evil from this planet, He would have to eradicate all evil men. Who would be exempt? “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” [Romans 3:23 NIV].God would rather transform the evil man than eradicate him.

Billy Graham

The same Book that tells us over and over again of God’s love warns us constantly of the devil who would come between us and God, the devil who is ever waiting to ensnare men’s souls.

Billy Graham

In His thirty-three years on earth, Jesus suffered with man; on the cross He suffered for man.

Billy Graham

I believe there is an obedience to the Gospel, there is a self-denial and a bearing of the cross, if you are to be a follower of Christ. Being a Christian is a serious business.

Billy Graham

Without Him our daily routine would become tiresome and tedious, a drudgery rather than a joy.

Billy Graham

The world by its advertisements, its conversation, and its philosophy is engaged in a gigantic brainwashing task . . . The Christian is beset by secular and worldly propaganda.

Billy Graham

True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency. Make it a habit, and when the need arises you will be in practice.

Billy Graham

Prayer is key to our effort to communicate the Gospel and win men and women to Christ.

Billy Graham

Come back to the Bible. Begin to read it. Study it and God will speak to you and change you—and through you perhaps history can be changed.

Billy Graham

Subtle persecution may happen to you in your office, school, or social gathering. You may not be “with it,” or be “one of the crowd.” No suffering that the Christian endures for Christ is ever in vain.

Billy Graham

Don’t give Satan a foothold, but discipline yourself to stay close to God. He alone is your security.

Billy Graham

The way in which we react to hurts and disappointments influences the shaping of our personalities.

Billy Graham

We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.It’s called sin.

Billy Graham

Although Jesus Christ was Himself the Creative Deity, by whom all things were made, as man He humbled Himself--set aside His divine prerogatives and walked this earth as man -- a perfect demonstration of what God intended man to be--the whole personality yielded to and occupied by God for Himself.

W. Ian Thomas

We are to be catch basins for the fullness of God. Like a freshly running spring, we are to overflow and let our lives touch the lives of those around us.

Billy Graham

People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well

Charles W. Colson

Many Christians who profess Christ do not live as though they possess Him.

Billy Graham

Men and women do make decisions wherever the Gospel is proclaimed; whether publicly or privately, some say yes, some say no, and some procrastinate. No one ever hears the Gospel proclaimed without making some kind of decision!

Billy Graham

This age is interested in success, not suffering . . . Our Lord was ridiculed, insulted, persecuted, and eventually killed. In the face of opposition, He went about “doing good.

Billy Graham

[As a young man] I sought thrills! I found them in Christ. I looked for something that would bring perfect joy! I found it in Christ. I looked for something that would bring pleasure and that would satisfy the deepest longing of my heart! I found it in Christ. And my life has never been the same.

Billy Graham

The Old Testament may not seem relevant to us today—but it is, because it is part of God’s Holy Word, and He has much to teach us through its pages.

Billy Graham

History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty from the ashes of world chaos. A new world is being born. A new social order will emerge when Christ comes back. A fabulous future is on the way.

Billy Graham

Our magazine covers frequently feature the immoral, the perverted, the psychologically sick. Sin is “in.” People don’t like to be told they are sinners.

Billy Graham

My visits to Hungary over the past twelve years absolutely fixed my conviction that God’s Holy Spirit was releasing a spiritual force in that part of the world that was bound to challenge the atheistic philosophy that had dominated nations in that region for decades.

Billy Graham

I am in favor of hanging the Ten Commandments in every schoolroom in the country so young people can know the difference between right and wrong. They don’t know the difference and we’re seeing the evidence of that all around us every day.

Billy Graham

Children must be taught obedience just as much as they need to be taught to read and write.

Billy Graham

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.

Billy Graham

Salvation is free! God puts no price tag on the Gift of gifts.

Billy Graham

The home only fulfills its true purpose when it is God-controlled. Leave Jesus Christ out of your home and it loses its meaning. But take Christ into your heart and the life of your family, and He will transform your home.

Billy Graham

[The Lord] does go with us through our sufferings, and He awaits us as we emerge on the other side of the tunnel of testing—into the light of His glorious presence to live with Him forever!

Billy Graham

The devil is the god of this world and he has blinded our eyes.

Billy Graham

Don’t be a prude, or snobbish, but let your life “glow” for Christ. We are lamps shining in the darkness.

Billy Graham

In the face of legalized pornography, the conscience of America seems to be paralyzed. More serious than our fakery in art, literature, and pictures is the collapse of our moral standards and the blunting of our capacity as a nation for righteous indignation.

Billy Graham

Life has its share of joys and laughter—but we also know life’s road is often very rough. Temptations assail us; people disappoint us; illness and age weaken us; tragedies and sorrows ambush us; evil and injustice overpower us. Life is hard—but God is good, and heaven is real!

Billy Graham

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

Billy Graham

No matter how much you exercise, no matter how many vitamins or health foods you eat, no matter how low your cholesterol, you will still die—someday. If you knew the moment and manner of your death in advance, would you order your life differently?

Billy Graham

[Jesus] had only three years of public ministry, but He was never too hurried to spend hours in prayer . . . No day began or closed in which He was not in communion with His Father.

Billy Graham

We were created to live a life of prayer.

Billy Graham

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and so is our character.

Billy Graham

Nothing can replace a daily time spent alone with God in prayer. We can also be in an attitude of prayer throughout the day—sitting in a car or at our desks, working in the kitchen, even talking with someone on the phone.

Billy Graham

Because God is the giver and source of our life, He has a legitimate claim upon our lives.

Billy Graham

Jesus taught that there is an eternal destiny for each individual—either heaven or hell (John 5:25–29). The eternal destiny of each individual depends on a decision made in this life (Luke 16:19–31)—to be followed by a life of obedience.

Billy Graham

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

Billy Graham

You cannot afford to be too busy to pray.

Billy Graham

When we come to Christ, God calls us out of this world’s sin and confusion. But then He sends us back into the world—not to share any longer in its sin and spiritual darkness, but to bear witness to the light of Christ.

Billy Graham

The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it does teach that sin shall no longer reign over you.

Billy Graham

Modern war is the most highly developed of all sciences. We have perfected our weapons but failed to perfect the men who use them.

Billy Graham

Life can grow sweeter and more rewarding as we grow older if we possess the presence of Christ. Sunsets are always glorious. It is Christ who adds colors, glory, and beauty to man’s sunsets.

Billy Graham

[God] alone is perfect. Even His anger is righteous, because it is directed solely against evil.

Billy Graham

Why shouldn’t we have laws forbidding pornography and obscenity? Many heroic leaders have tried, but they have stumbled over even the definition of the word “obscenity.” If we cannot agree on the length of a foot, it is because we have lost our yardstick.

Billy Graham

Be attractive and winsome, but do not compromise your convictions for the sake of popularity.

Billy Graham

Discover the Bible for yourself.

Billy Graham

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