Quotes from Billy Graham

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

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

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

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

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

When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."

We have found that marriage should be made up of two forgivers. We need to learn to say, "I was wrong, I'm sorry." And we also need to say, "That's all right, I love you."

God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice.

The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.

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.

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

There are many things that I don't understand.

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.

God never tempts any man. That is Satan's business.

Men change, fashions change, conditions and circumstances change, but God never changes.

God can use the fear that grips the hearts of men today to point them to eternal truths- the truth of God's eternal judgment, and the truth of His eternal love.

Because God is love, He could not completely cast man aside.

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The gospel did not come into being because men believed it...The fact always precedes the faith.

No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you.

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

The Bible says that as Christians we don't grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven - but we still grieve.

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.

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.

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.