Quotes from Billy Graham

Your yearning for God must supersede all other desires. It must be like a gnawing hunger and a burning thirst.

Peace—[the ability] to sleep in the storm!

Our days on earth are as a shadow. 1 CHRONICLES 29:15

For His mercy endures forever. Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy. (Psalm 107:1–2)

The devil doesn't need to invent any new temptations; the old ones work as well as they ever have.

My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death.

We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.

Man has naturally and universally a capacity for religion—and not only a capacity, for the vast majority of the human race practices or professes some form of religion.

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

Can we overcome our anger, instead of constantly being overcome by it? Yes—with God's help. Peter's anger was channeled into boldness for Christ. Paul's anger against Christians was replaced with a burning passion to spread the Gospel. Is this your goal?

Until you actually possess true peace with God, no one can describe its wonders to you.

O God! There are many things in [the Bible] I do not understand . . . I am going to accept this as Thy Word—by faith! I'm going to allow faith to go beyond my intellectual questions and doubts, and I will believe this to be Your inspired Word.

We must repent of our prayerlessness. We must make prayer our priority. Even our churches today have gotten away from prayer meetings.

There is no point of space, whether inside or outside the bounds of creation, where God is not present. That is why when we ask the question, "Who's in control?" we can answer without equivocation, "God is!

Anger flees when the Spirit's fruit fills our hearts.

The resurrection is our great hope.

What a blessing it is for parents to believe in their children.

All false religions cut away parts of God's revelation, add ideas of their own, and come out with various viewpoints that differ from God's revelation in the Bible.

In the last essay he wrote before he died, great Christian apologist C. S. Lewis said, "We have no right to happiness; only an obligation to do our duty." Of course it is in our duty that happiness comes. Try it.

If our faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.

Don't let the burdens and hardships of this life distract you or discourage you, but keep your eyes firmly fixed on what God has promised at the end of our journey: heaven itself.

If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.

You cannot pray for someone and hate them at the same time.

On the cross Christ took upon Himself every sin we've ever committed—including anger.