Billy Graham Quotes - Page 6

Discover the Bible for yourself.

God calls us to live lives of purity.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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