Quotes by Evangelists - Page 7

Billy Graham

Before Satan there was no sin, and before sin there was no pain.

Billy Graham

Every area of our lives is to be under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. And that means the searchlight of God’s Word must penetrate every corner of our lives.

Billy Graham

If you belong to Jesus Christ, you are called to live a life of purity and holiness. God wants your mind to be shaped by Him so that your thoughts and goals reflect Christ.

Billy Graham

Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.

Billy Graham

I wept more in Korea than in all the past several years put together. These experiences changed my life. I could never be quite the same again . . . I felt sadder, older. I felt as though I had gone in a boy and come out a man.

Billy Graham

There are two masters, and you have to choose which master you are going to serve.

Billy Graham

Persecution, whether it is physical, social, or mental, is one of the worst types of pain, but those who persecute us are to be the objects of our prayers.

Billy Graham

In America we have an idolatry called the “adulation of youth.” Apparently distressed by their inability to communicate with the younger generation, many adults simply imitate it.

Billy Graham

I wanna be so consumed with the love of Christ that it flows into every aspect of my life.

Evangelist Jordan Wells

God never calls a person [into His service] without equipping him. I know that from experience.

Billy Graham

The same conditions that prevailed in Rome prevail in our society. Before Rome fell, her standards were abandoned, the family disintegrated, divorce prevailed, immorality was rampant, and faith was at a low ebb.

Billy Graham

Ultimately, every human being must face this question: What do you think of Christ? Whose Son is He? We must answer this question with belief and action. We must not only believe something about Jesus, but we must do something about Him. We must accept Him or reject Him.

Billy Graham

Parents, pray that God may crown your home with grace and mercy.

Billy Graham

All mankind is sitting on Death Row. How we die or when is not the main issue, but where [we] go after death.

Billy Graham

As humans we have two great spiritual needs. The first is forgiveness, which God has made possible by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins. Our second need, however, is for goodness, which God also made possible by sending the Holy Spirit to dwell within us.

Billy Graham

If we do not love one another we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

Dwight L. Moody

Jesus told His disciples that the “world,” meaning the world system, the political and social order organized apart from God, will despise Christians.

Billy Graham

In Houston, Texas, a man was born again in one of our meetings. He owned a liquor store. The next morning he had a sign on the front of his door saying, “Out of business.

Billy Graham

Revival fires flame where hearts are praying.

Dick Eastman

Grief which is not dealt with properly can cause us to lose our perspective on life.

Billy Graham

In our resurrection bodies we will know nothing of physical weakness. Limitations imposed on us on this earth are not known in heaven. We will have a habitation from God that is incorruptible, immortal, and powerful.

Billy Graham

The greatest tribute a boy can give to his father is to say, “When I grow up, I want to be just like my dad.” It is a convicting responsibility for us fathers and grandfathers.

Billy Graham

God knew that children grow and mature best in a stable, loving family, and this was one reason He gave marriage to us.

Billy Graham

Christians ought to carry written in our hearts the solemn truth of how short is our opportunity to witness for Christ and live for Him.

Billy Graham

Only in heaven will we know exactly what heaven is like.

Billy Graham

My wife has said that a bitter, sour Christianis one of Satan’s greatest trophies—and she’s right.

Billy Graham

Thousands of young couples go through with a loveless marriage because no one ever told them what genuine love is. If people today knew that kind of love, the divorce rate would be sharply reduced.

Billy Graham

It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore but a supreme delight.

Gordon Lindsay

The world judges the Christian by his life, not by his belief.

Billy Graham

I am convinced if the church went back to the main task of proclaiming the Gospel it would see people being converted to Christ, and it would have a far greater impact on the social, moral, and psychological needs of people than anything else it could possibly do.

Billy Graham

Too often we use petty little petitions, oratorical exercises, or the words of others rather than the cries of our inmost being. When you pray, pray!

Billy Graham

Jesus knows the intentions of our hearts and what we do in secret.

Billy Graham

Whatever is unlike Christ in conduct, speech, or disposition grieves the Spirit of grace.

Billy Graham

Many believe that pagan worship is a thing of the past, but it is ever present—we have just given it a new name: pop culture.

Billy Graham

We need to know what the Bible teaches about right and wrong. Every day we are battered by messages—from the media, advertising, entertainment, celebrities, even our friends—with one underlying theme: “Live for yourself.

Billy Graham

Don’t savor temptations; don’t dwell on them or toy with them or replay them over and over in your mind. The more you think about a particular temptation, the more enticing it becomes.

Billy Graham

When we all stand before the judgment seat of Christ, we will have our true motives revealed.

Billy Graham

In earlier periods of history, adolescence was virtually unknown . . . Today, the span between childhood and adulthood may extend over ten years. Deferred adulthood is synonymous with deferred responsibility.

Billy Graham

You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion.

Joyce Meyer

You can have religion but not know Christ. It’s having Christ that counts.

Billy Graham

Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose."

A.B. Simpson

Today our world is mad in its obsession with pleasure, sex, and money. Its ear is too dull to hear the truth. Most men’s eyes are blind. They do not want to see. They do not want to hear. They hurry to their doom.

Billy Graham

Don’t let hatred control you, no matter what others do that causes [anger]. You would only become guilty of the same sin that afflicts them, and nothing would be solved.

Billy Graham

The Word of God hidden in the heart is a stubborn voice to suppress.

Billy Graham

The Greek word used in the New Testament to designate a sorcerer or a person who practiced occult magic is “pharmakeus,” or one who mixed drugs and used them to induce spells . . .Such practices are included in the list of “acts of the sinful nature” in Galatians 5:19–21 that God will judge.

Billy Graham

Just as the Bible is God’s written Word, so Jesus is God’s living Word.

Billy Graham

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.

Billy Graham

You should no more allow sinful imaginations to accumulate in your mind and soul than you would let garbage collect in your living room.

Billy Graham

If I have to build a big company by mistreating other people then the Bible says WOE to me. I don't know what that is, but I don't want any of it.

Joyce Meyer

At the bitter end of an era of liberation—women’s lib, kids’ lib, animal lib, and everything-but-ethics lib—America has apparently been liberated from its moral foundations. But for too many, the good life has become a living hell.

Billy Graham

There are many bibles of different religions; there is the Mohammedan Koran, the Buddhist Canon of Sacred Scripture, the Zoroastrian Zend-Avesta, and the Brahman Veda . . . they all begin with some flashes of true light, and end in utter darkness. Even the most casual observer soon discovers that the Bible is radically different. It is the only Book that offers redemption to us and points the way out of our dilemma.

Billy Graham

If we don’t know who we are, we’ll never know how we ought to live.

Billy Graham

Scripture makes it clear that our first love is always to be for our Lord.

Billy Graham

A Christian funeral should be a coronation ceremony, a statement to the world about eternal life.

Billy Graham

It is vitally important for local church leaders to keep in touch with the spiritual state of their members, to discuss their level of biblical knowledge, and to teach them how to study God’s Word and pray.

Billy Graham

Many Christians want the benefits of their belief, but they hesitate at the cost of discipleship.

Billy Graham

Nothing made by the hand of man has ever been so beautiful as starlight on the water or moonlight on the snow. And the same hand that made trees and fields and flowers, the seas and hills, the clouds and sky, has been making a home for us called heaven.

Billy Graham

I believe The Bible is the infallible inspired inerrant Word of The Living God and scientifically accurate in every detail.

Kent Hovind

There are those who have made their fortunes on other people’s misfortune. The Bible never promised that life would be fair.

Billy Graham

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