Quotes from Billy Graham

Faith points us beyond our problems to the hope we have in Christ.

Young people, look to your Bible when thinking about any matter, including getting married.

Life is sacred and given to us by God; for that reason we must never condone the deliberate, unnatural taking of life.

Of one thing we can be sure: angels never draw attention to themselves but ascribe glory to God and press His message upon the hearers as a delivering and sustaining word of the highest order.

Many people plan financially for retirement—but not spiritually and emotionally.

No book ever takes the place of the Bible. It is its own best commentary.

Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage. He offered us, not an excursion, but an execution. Our Savior said that we would have to be ready to die to self, sin, and the world.

There are two masters, and you have to choose which master you are going to serve.

Old age is Satan's last chance to blow us off course.

When confronted with the world's problems, we Christians say automatically: "Christianity is the answer." But this is not true! It is the application of Christianity that is the answer.

Christ's second coming reminds us that ultimately our hope is not in this world and its attempts to solve its problems, but in Christ's promise to establish His perfect rule over all the earth.

As another year ends, no doubt you have had your share of joys and disappointments. Don't live in the past, but "be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's coming is near" (James 5:8 NIV).

My visits to Hungary over the past twelve years absolutely fixed my conviction that God's Holy Spirit was releasing a spiritual force in that part of the world that was bound to challenge the atheistic philosophy that had dominated nations in that region for decades.

The central theme of the universe is the purpose and destiny of every individual. Every person is important in God's eyes.

Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.

One reason God allows times of difficulty and suffering to come into our lives is so that we will not take Him for granted but will remember in a deeper way His faithfulness to us and our dependence on Him.

We have been trying to solve every ill of society as though society were made up of regenerate men to whom we had an obligation to speak with Christian advice.

Because tragedy happened to you, it gives you a greater sense of oneness with others who experience tragedy. Because we have been comforted through the Word of God, we in turn may be able to comfort others.

There is not a day that we do not have a chance to choose between the devil's clever promises and God's sure Word.

Most of us do not understand nuclear fission, but we accept it . . . Why is it so easy to accept manmade miracles and so difficult to accept the miracles of the Bible?

Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!

Only by a life of obedience to the voice of the Spirit, by a daily denying of self, by full dedication to Christ, and by constant fellowship with Him are we enabled to live a godly life and an influential life in this present ungodly world.

His nature, being personal, is only expressed through personality, first revealed fully in Christ, and now expressed through his Spirit in the lives of those yielded to him.

We can be rescued from Hell only on this side of life, not in the afterlife.