Top 787 Quotes & Sayings by Billy Graham - Page 2

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

Evangelism is when the Gospel, which is good news, is preached or presented to all people.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren't enough to hold us steady when the challenges come... We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life's hard times.

We have an idea that we Americans are God's chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God's blessed. I tell you that God doesn't love us any more than He does the Russians.

I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don't think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

I found that this Parkinson's does slow you down, whether you want to slow down or not.

Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas.

The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new morality' is all right. They say we're living in a new generation; let's be relevant, let's change God's law. Let's say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication's all right under certain circumstances. If it's 'meaningful.'

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years... Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation... But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.

Freedom is relative.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

I am amazed at the wonders of technology and am grateful for the ways in which we are able to use it to share the Gospel around the world.

The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on this planet. Disease will be eliminated. Death will be abolished. War will be eradicated. Nature will be transformed.

I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.

I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That's the secret of successful evangelism.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you'd grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

Christians are not limited to any church.

I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

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

I never hold a grudge.

Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

Oral Roberts was a man of God and a great friend in ministry. I loved him as a brother.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.

Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians.

The human heart is the same the world over.

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

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and - for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

We're all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.

God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman's body is very beautiful.

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.