Quotes from Billy Graham

Sin, like a deadly cancer, has invaded every area of our lives: our bodies, our minds, our emotions, our wills—everything.

Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage; not to a frolic, but to a fight. He offered us not an excursion, but an execution.

Some people seem to put the devil on a par with God. Actually, Satan is a fallen angel.

Jesus suffered more than any other person in human history.

The Holy Spirit can take God's word of truth and minister it to our deepest needs.

Today] there is less emphasis on redemption by the blood of Christ.

Christ can take the most sin-laden, selfish, evil person and bring forgiveness and new life.

Angels] guide, comfort, and provide for the people of God in the midst of suffering and persecution.

Grief comes with many losses. Whatever its cause, grief will come to all of us.

We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.

Though the cross repels, it also attracts. It possesses a magnetic quality.

Death is not a trip, but a destination.

There are two ways of being rich—have a lot, or want very little. The latter way is the easier for most.

Cursing, telling smutty stories, smearing the good name of another, and referring irreverently to God and the Scriptures may be considered as coming under the expression corrupt speech. Our speech is to be clean, pure, and wholesome.

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerate the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

The Christian is likened to a boxer, who masters his own body and practices self restraint, and all the way through the New Testament you'll read words like this describing the Christian life: fight, wrestle, run, work, suffer, endure, resist, agonize, persevere. All of these are New Testament words describing the Christian life. It is to be a disciplined life.

Today the idea of the shed blood of Christ is becoming old-fashioned and out of date in a lot of preaching. It is in the Bible. It is the very heart of Christianity.

We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.

God's laws for the spiritual world are found in the Bible. Whatever else there may be that tells us of God, it is more clearly told in the Bible.

Double-mindedness means the faculty of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind and accepting both of them. We talk out of both corners of our mouths at once.

I believe one reason that God allows poverty and suffering is so that His followers may demonstrate Christ's love, mercy, and comfort to [others].

The pagan world is still trying to put its stamp of conformity on every follower of Jesus Christ. Every possible pressure is being brought to bear upon Christians to make them conform to the standards of the present world . . .be a committed follower of Jesus Christ.

In order to console, there is no need to say much. It is enough to listen, to understand, to love. PAUL TOURNIER

It is far better to know God's truth than to be ignorant of it.