Quotes by Evangelists - Page 8

End your journey well. Don’t waste your life, and don’t be satisfied with anything less than God’s plan.

Billy Graham

None of us deserves God’s love. All of us deserve His righteous judgment and wrath (John 3:18, 36; Romans 3:9–12). It is easy to think of an evil and depraved man like Adolf Hitler deserving divine judgment . . .But think of the kind and good people that you know . . .They too will be lost if they refuse and neglect God’s offer of mercy and forgiveness. God’s judgment applies to them too.

Billy Graham

Some of the strongest warnings about judgment in the Bible come from the lips of Jesus.

Billy Graham

The facade of grief may be indifference, preoccupation, anger, cheerfulness, or any variety of emotions. But if we try to understand it, we may learn how to cope with it.

Billy Graham

God loves us the way we are but too much to leave us that way.

Leighton Ford

God is sending forth His message of love, but you must tune in. You must be willing to listen and to receive His message and then to obey it.

Billy Graham

The Scripture teaches that popularity with the world means death. Satan’s most effective tool is conformity and compromise. He is aware that one man standing in the midst of a pagan peoplecan move more people in the direction of God than thousands of insipid professors of religion.

Billy Graham

We don’t live in an ideal world, but in a world dominated by sinful, selfish desires.

Billy Graham

Spiritually, we have wandered far from the faith of our fathers . . . no nation which relegates the Bible to the background, which disregards the love of God and flouts the claims of the Man of Galilee, can long survive.

Billy Graham

It often takes a tragedy to open our hearts, minds, and wills to the truth of God’s Word.

Billy Graham

Some people have a warped idea of living the Christian life. Seeing talented, successful Christians, they attempt to imitate them. For them, the grass on the other side of the fence is always greener. But when they discover that their own gifts are different or their contributions are more modest (or even invisible), they collapse in discouragement and overlook genuine opportunities that are open to them. They have forgotten that they are here to serve Christ, not themselves.

Billy Graham

Although the testimony of my mother’s life helped mold me and taught me how to live, the testimony of her last years and her death gave me insight into how to die.

Billy Graham

(On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.

Joyce Meyer

The Bible is the textbook of revelation.In God’s great classroom there are three textbooks—one called nature, one called conscience, and one named Scripture. In the written textbook of revelation—the Bible—God speaks through words.

Billy Graham

Man cannot control himself, and if he will not be controlled by Jesus Christ, then he will be controlled by Satan.

Billy Graham

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

Billy Graham

Do your work with honesty and integrity, and don’t compromise God’s moral standards. It may be difficult, but it’s far better to do right than to do wrong. God is with you, and He will not abandon you.

Billy Graham

We relegate God to our spare time—but end up never having any spare time! Jesus said, “Seek first his kingdom” [Matthew 6:33 NIV].

Billy Graham

What right does any church have even attempting to approve of lifestyles or certain acts for which God prescribed the death penalty in the Old Testament?

Billy Graham

The Spirit goes ahead of us when we witness— preparing the way, giving us the words, and granting us courage.

Billy Graham

God’s goal isn’t just to remove the bad things in our lives; He wants to replace them with good things. His plan is to remake us from within, by His Holy Spirit.

Billy Graham

God prescribes the remedy for the ills of the human race. That remedy is personal faith and commitment to Jesus Christ. The remedy is to be born again.

Billy Graham

God has given us a message that is not only for past times and this time, but for all time.

Billy Graham

You cannot pray for someone and hate them at the same time.

Billy Graham

Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project.

Billy Graham

You and I, God’s ambassadors, are called to sound the warning, to call sinners to repentance, to point the way to peace with God and the hope that is in Christ.

Billy Graham

Our generation has become well versed in Christian terminology but is remiss in the actual practice of Christ’s principles and teachings. Hence, our greatest need today is not more Christianity but more true Christians.

Billy Graham

There are countless opportunities to comfort others, not only in the loss of a loved one, but also in the daily distress that so often creeps into our lives.

Billy Graham

God gives us a glimpse of what heaven will be like for the believer. It will have the characteristics of a happy home, a holy city, a glorious garden, and a beautiful bride. This staggers the imagination!

Billy Graham

We need to be on guard against greed . . . above all we need to make sure our lives are centered in Christ and not things.

Billy Graham

The greatest barrier to knowing God’s will is simply that we want to run our own lives. Our problem is that a battle is going on in our hearts—a battle between our wills and God’s will.

Billy Graham

A baby isn’t meant to stay a baby forever, and neither is a new Christian.

Billy Graham

God gave the Bible to us because He wants us to know Him and love Him and serve Him. Most of all, He gave it to us so we can become more like Christ.

Billy Graham

Envy and greed always—always—exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace.

Billy Graham

God never leads us to do anything that is contrary to the Bible.

Billy Graham

One of the great joys of my life has been to travel around the world and meet thousands of Christians in every country.

Billy Graham

We have glamorized vice and minimized virtue. We have played down gentleness, manners, and morals—while we have played up rudeness, savagery, and vice . . . and the philosophy of “might is right.

Billy Graham

Great crowds followed our Lord . . . as He healed the sick, raised the dead, and fed the hungry. However, the moment He started talking about the cross . . . “many . . . no longer followed him” (John 6:66 NIV).

Billy Graham

The self-life manifests itself in self-indulgences, such as self-love, self-will, self-seeking, self-pride . . . It takes self-denial to turn off the television and spend [time] in prayer . . . and read the Scriptures . . .the only object in life is that Christ may be honored.

Billy Graham

God wants us to know His will and He reveals it to us both through the Bible and through the guidance of His Holy Spirit. Seek God’s will when you pray, and He will help you know it.

Billy Graham

Getting to know God and being able to call on Him is the most important step in storing up for the storms.

Billy Graham

The world’s sewage system threatens to contaminate the stream of Christian thought. Satan will contest every hour you spend in Bible reading or prayer.

Billy Graham

Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have a job leading worship.

Billy Graham

The Bible teaches that our homes should be hospitable and that those who come in and out of our homes should sense the presence of Christ.

Billy Graham

The main “food” God has given to strengthen us is the Bible, the Word of God.

Billy Graham

What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is calledthe Christ?” (Matthew 27:22 NIV). This is the most important question that has ever been asked. It is also the question you must ask yourself.

Billy Graham

As life hits us head-on we can respond with resentment, resignation, acceptance, or welcome. We are the living examples of our responses.

Billy Graham

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Billy Graham

Satan has slaughtered, plundered, and bludgeoned his way through the centuries, manifesting himself in every false ideology, sect, and cult.

Billy Graham

In our spiritual pilgrimage we see sins which mar our relationship with God, but beneath it is a commitment which seeks to move beyond to a higher life, based on wholehearted surrender to God.

Billy Graham

On the cross Christ took upon Himself every sin we’ve ever committed—including anger.

Billy Graham

The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.

Billy Graham

Any work done by a follower of Christ to the glory of God is “gold, silver, precious stones.” But if any follower of Christ works with any self-interest or personal ambition involved, it will be “wood, hay, and stubble” and will be burned.

Billy Graham

We have arrived at the point where we are flippant about God. We tell jokes about Him. God’s name is used so often in profanity in the entertainment world that sometimes it is embarrassing to watch television.

Billy Graham

When God forgives, there is an immediate andcomplete change in relationship. Instead of hostility, there is love and acceptance. Instead of enmity, there is friendship.

Billy Graham

Sometimes life touches one person with a bouquet and another with a thorn bush, But the first may find a wasp in the flowers, and the second may discover roses among the thorns.

Billy Graham

If you are not careful you will find yourself actually in the employ of the devil. He is powerful, slick, crafty, wily, and subtle.

Billy Graham

The devil is a master at making us question God and His Word. Twisting Scripture . . . taking a verse out of context . . .deceiving us into thinking God is mean-spirited—these are some of Satan’s favorite tricks.

Billy Graham

Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God’s forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul.

Franklin Graham

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