Quotes from Billy Graham

Make it your goal to build strong foundations for your life—foundations constructed from prayer and the truths of God's Word.

Evil is real—but so is God's power and love.

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord

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.

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.

The most important events in human history were the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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.

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.

When our government was in the process of being formed, Benjamin Franklin addressed the chairman of the Constitutional Convention, meeting at Philadelphia in 1787, saying, "I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, it is probable that an empire cannot rise without His aid.

I have never known anyone to accept Christ's redemption and later regret it.

The end will come with the return of Jesus Christ . . .That is why a Christian can be an optimist. That is why a Christian can smile in the midst of all that is happening . . .We know what the end will be: the triumph of the Lord Jesus Christ!

The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.

The Christian faith has become a cheap faith because we too often live as if it has no value. We complain when the preacher runs over a few minutes on the Sunday sermon and consider it a great inconvenience to return to services once or twice more in the same week. No wonder so much of the world does not consider our faith relevant when we are not even willing to give of our time, much less our freedom or lives, for what we say we believe in.

We can't go on much longer morally. We can't go on much longer scientifically. The technology that was supposed to save us is ready to destroy us. New weapons are being made all the time, including chemical and biological weapons. Today the only bright spot on the horizon of this world is the promise of the coming again of Christ.

It is not easy to shut out the world, set aside a few minutes by yourself, and spend time in God's Word and prayer. But it is essential if we are to grow in our relationship with God and be strengthened for the battles ahead. Don't delay. Begin now to spend time alone with God every day.

Sometimes life touches one person with a bouquet and another with a thorn bush, But the first may find a wasp in the flowers, and the second may discover roses among the thorns.

Salvation is an act of God. It is initiated by God, wrought by God, and sustained by God.

When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.

Nothing but God ever completely satisfies, because the soul was made for God. Don't starve your soul.

I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing.

Don't conform to those who have been overwhelmed by the tide of immorality sweeping our country!

Life [can] become unbalanced, and in the process God gets pushed to the fringes. Instead of staying at the center of our lives, Christ gradually gets relegated to the shadows. Don't let this happen to you!

Because of the brevity of life, the Bible warns that we should be prepared to meet God at all times.

Becoming a Christian takes only a single step; being a Christian means walking with Christ the rest of your life.