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Tuesday 20 May 2014

Billy Graham Quotes and Sayings

Billy Graham Quotes



God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'
Billy Graham

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
Billy Graham

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
Billy Graham

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
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

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
Billy Graham

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.
Billy Graham

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
Billy Graham

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.
Billy Graham

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
Billy Graham

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
Billy Graham

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.
Billy Graham

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Billy Graham

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

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
Billy Graham

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.
Billy Graham

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Billy Graham

Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
Billy Graham

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.
Billy Graham

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
Billy Graham

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.
Billy Graham

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
Billy Graham

God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.
Billy Graham

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
Billy Graham

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
Billy Graham

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
Billy Graham

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.
Billy Graham

God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.
Billy Graham

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

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
Billy Graham

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

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

It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.
Billy Graham

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
Billy Graham

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
Billy Graham

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

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
Billy Graham

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

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.
Billy Graham

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

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.
Billy Graham

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
Billy Graham

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.
Billy Graham

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.
Billy Graham

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.
Billy Graham

The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
Billy Graham

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
Billy Graham

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

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

I don't think I get angry.
Billy Graham

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
Billy Graham

You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.
Billy Graham

I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.
Billy Graham

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

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.
Billy Graham

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
Billy Graham

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

I'm not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.
Billy Graham

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.
Billy Graham

I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all.
Billy Graham

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.
Billy Graham

People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.
Billy Graham

I don't think there is a single social issue I haven't spoken on.
Billy Graham

We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.
Billy Graham

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
Billy Graham

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.
Billy Graham

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.
Billy Graham

I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe.
Billy Graham

Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.
Billy Graham

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

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

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

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.
Billy Graham

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.
Billy Graham

I just want to lobby for God.
Billy Graham

I don't have many sad days.
Billy Graham

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.
Billy Graham

I'm not an analyzer. I've got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don't analyze people.
Billy Graham

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

I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.
Billy Graham

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.
Billy Graham

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.
Billy Graham

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
Billy Graham

There are many things that I don't understand.
Billy Graham

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.
Billy Graham

If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.
Billy Graham

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

I am not a televangelist.
Billy Graham

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