Top 121 Billy Graham Quotes

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

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

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.

To start with, I love New York… It’s a little bit of the whole world… In New York, the whole world comes to you.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

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.

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

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

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.

Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.

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

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

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.

We go on in our pleasures thinking they’re going to last forever.

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

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

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

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 influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

I don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.

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

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

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

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.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world – not to win them, but to be like them.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Locally, I’ll vote one way and nationally, maybe another.

I haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

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

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.’

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

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.

The Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.

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.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‘Is there any hope for the future?’ My answer is the same, ‘Yes, through Jesus Christ.’

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

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

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

The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I’m sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

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

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I’ve had a lot of physical problems.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

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

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

I’ve been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.

I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms.

Occasionally I’ve seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.

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

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

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

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

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

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

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.

Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.