A collection of thoughts and quotation by Billy Graham on love, Christianity, holy-spirit, God, bravery, strength, inspiration, religion, hope, character and happiness.
99 Thought-Provoking Quotes By Billy Graham, The Celebrated American Evangelist
William Franklin Graham Junior, better known as Billy Graham, is a Christian evangelist from the United States. He went on to become a celebrity in the country at around 1949 through his rallies that appealed to relatively well off Protestants. Graham delivered sermons on a regular basis and they were all broadcast to a large audience on both television and radio that made him one of the pioneers of the phenomenon of ‘televangelist’. Graham was educated at the Florida Bible Institute and then went on to study anthropology at Wheaton College. During his days at a student at Wheaton College, Graham was convinced of the divinity of the Christ and eventually embarked on a career of an evangelist. He started his show Billy Graham Crusades, which was broadcast once a year, in 1947 and remained one of the longest running shows in television history when it finally concluded in 2005. Needless to say, he was a gifted orator and spoke his mind over a range of subjects. Here are some of the most famous thoughts and quotes from his life and times on religion, worship, Jesus, prayer, faith, salvation, sincerity, selflessness, adversity, pride, hope, heaven and missionary.
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
Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality.
Reading God’s Word and meditating on its truth will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart, and will be demonstrated in your life. Let nothing take the place of this daily privilege.
Golden years' must have been coined by the young. It is doubtful that anyone over seventy would have described this phase of life with such a symbolic word.
Strengthen your commitment to Christ—now. Don’t wait until the storms of temptation, or sickness, or old age threaten to blow you off-course; now is the time to strengthen your faith.
Believe that Christ died for you. He suffered for you. He won the battle over sin for you. He rose from the grave and was victorious over death so that you can live forever.
Don’t conform to those who have been overwhelmed by the tide of immorality sweeping our country!
Billy Graham
The ground is level at the foot of the cross.
Billy Graham
Why is it that the cross has become the symbol of Christianity? It is because at the cross Jesus purchased our redemption
and provided a righteousness which we could not ourselves earn.
Billy Graham
The heart of the Christian Gospel with its incarnation and atonement is in the cross and the resurrection. Jesus was born to die.
Bible teaching about the Second Coming of Christ was thought of as “doomsday” preaching. But not anymore. It is the only ray of hope that shines as an ever brightening beam in a darkening world.
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
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
Jesus Christ is God in human flesh, and the story of His life, death, and resurrection is the only Good News the world will ever hear.
The devil will try to discourage you, to divert you; he will seek to dilute your testimony; he will attempt anything to destroy your relationship to Christ and your influence upon others.
Do you want to know what God’s will is for you? It is for you to become more and more like Christ. This is spiritual maturity, and if you make this your goal, it will change your life.
Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus’ gift—the gift that liberates souls from sin’s power.
Sin then is not a toy with which to play but a terror to be shunned.
Billy Graham
If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.
It is in the close similarity between good and evil, right and wrong, that the danger lies.
Billy Graham
[Jesus] asked [His followers] to count the cost carefully, lest they should turn back when they met with suffering and privation. He told His followers that the world would hate them.
Billy Graham
So be steadfast in your commitment to Christ, and be a real VIP—a person with vision, integrity, and God’s presence.
Billy Graham
Our relationship must be right with God before it can be right with man.
In John 6 we read that when great multitudes went after Him, He told them three times that unless they were willing to pay the price, they could not be His followers.
Billy Graham
We . . . do not cease to pray for you. COLOSSIANS 1:9
Preach with authority. The authority for us is the Word of God. Preach with simplicity . . . Preach with urgency . . . heaven and hell are at stake. Preach for a decision.
Preachers are not salesmen, for they have nothing to sell. They are bearers of Good News.
Billy Graham
Jesus tells us not to be misled by the voices of strangers. There are so many strange voices being heard in the religious world of our day. We must compare what they say with the Word of God.
Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.
Billy Graham
I’m not a great preacher, and I don’t claim to be a great preacher . . . I’m an ordinary preacher, just communicating the Gospel in the best way I know how.
The Bible differentiates clearly between true faith and mere religiosity.
Billy Graham
Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.
Billy Graham
Today . . . when Satan worship is increasing at an alarming rate, we had better be aware of him, his origin, his aims, his abilities, and his limitations.
Billy Graham
For centuries mankind has been on an incredible journey, taking him across every generation and through every conceivable experience in his search for God.
God promises no easy life or days without troubles, trials, difficulties, and temptations. He never promises that life will be perfect. He does not call His children to a playground, but to a battleground.
Idolatrous beliefs have eroded the foundations of truth. Whether ancient or modern, all have posed alternatives to the biblical way of approaching God.
Man seeks to excuse himself of sin, but God seeks to convict him of it and to save him from it. Sin is no amusing toy—it is a terror to be shunned! Learn, then, what constitutes sin in the eyes of God!
Popularity and adulation are far more dangerous for the Christian than persecution. It is easy when all goes smoothly to lose our
sense of balance and perspective.
Billy Graham
Students today want to know about the devil, about witchcraft, about the occult. Many people do not know they are turning to Satan. They are being deluded.
Billy Graham
The only sin God cannot forgive is the sin of rejecting Christ. Turn to Him in repentance and faith—and He will forgive.
Repentance is mentioned seventy times in the New Testament . . . the Bible says God commands repentance . . . it is a command . . .
God says, “Repent! Or perish!
Only God knows the future and that we are to look to Him—not to the stars or the tea leaves or the lines on the palms of our hands—for our confidence in the future.
