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It has always been a mark of decaying civilizations to become obsessed with sex. When people lose their way, their purpose, their will, and their goals, as well as their faith . . . they go “a whoring.” It is a form of diversion that requires no thought, no character, and no restraint.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Why shouldn’t we have laws forbidding pornography and obscenity? Many heroic leaders have tried, but they have stumbled over even the definition of the word “obscenity.” If we cannot agree on the length of a foot, it is because we have lost our yardstick.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
[Satan] has hundreds of agents writing pornographic literature and producing sex movies to pollute [the mind]. He has intellectuals in high positions teaching a hedonistic and permissive philosophy . . .They lack an anchor for their real self.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We are going through a sexual tempest, a bombardment provided by unprecedented exploitation of cheap sex by moviemakers, theater owners, publishers, and producers of pornography. [There is more] openness of talk about sex, acceptance of public nudity . . . homosexuality. Sex revolution, no! But sex pollution? Yes!!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Sex-centered magazines litter our newsstands . . . each edition trying to escape new laws from the bottom of the sewers. We put lids on sewer holes. Ought we not to do something about the pornography which is spewing out a polluted river of filth which can destroy us faster than any chemical pollution we seem so worried about?7
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The serious student of the Bible cannot dismiss homosexual behavior simply as an alternate lifestyle. Nor can it be argued that homosexuals were “born this way” or that such behavior is an illness.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The greatest waste in all of our earth is our waste of the time God has given us each day.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Philosophically, war is an extension of man’s struggle with sin and evil in the world.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
There is for each man a day, an hour, a minute. The Bible talks in many places about the brevity of life, and the Bible warns that we should be prepared to meet God at all times.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God has given us a message that is not only for past times and this time, but for all time.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Every day has exactly 1,440 minutes; can’t you find even ten of them to be with your heavenly Father? Doesn’t God deserve the best minutes of your day?
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God can do more with a few days of your time if given completely to Him, than He can with a whole life characterized by a half-hearted service.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
You can trust Christ at this moment. The Bible says, “Now is the accepted time” [2 Corinthians 6:2 KJV]. Don’t put it off. Don’t say, “I’ll think about it.” Don’t say, “I’ll do it tomorrow.” Do it right now. At this moment, say yes to Jesus Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Allow the resurrected Christ to allocate your time as His own . . . and have complete right-of-way throughout your being.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If ever we are to study the Scriptures, if ever we are to spend time in prayer, if ever we are to win souls for Christ, if ever we are to invest our finances for His kingdom—it must be now.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war?
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Modern war is the most highly developed of all sciences. We have perfected our weapons but failed to perfect the men who use them.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Charter of the United Nations said in its preamble: “We the people determined to save succeeding generations from war . . .” Can the United Nations save the world from war? The answer is No! It was conceived and created by statesmen who knew little of the significance of the biblical concept of history and the nature of man. When the perspective is wrong, the whole viewpoint will be wrong.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Garden of Eden was somewhere in present-day Iraq. The turmoil and war [we are witnessing] in that part of the world . . .is occurring in the land where God established the first perfect civilization.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If the human race would turn from its evil ways and return to God, putting behind its sins of disobedience, idolatry, pride, greed, and belligerence, and all the various aberrations that lead to war, the possibility of peace exists.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Scripture indicates that deception, false religions, and apostasy lead to war, and that war in turn leads to famine and pestilence.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We all have exactly the same number of minutes in a day. The question is, how will we use them? Most people today are either too busy—or not busy enough. The Bible tells us that both extremes are wrong.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
War is only one facet of the larger problem of evil which has been with the human race since the beginning . . .This same evil tried to destroy the greatest human being who ever lived, nailing Him to a cross.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
What is your story? Be ready to share it when the Lord gives you the opportunity.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Be a good witness by the way you live. The way we live is often more convincing than the words we say.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
One faithful witness is worth a thousand mute professors of religion . . . Our faith grows by expression . . . we must share it—we must witness.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We witness in two ways: by life and by word . . . God’s purpose . . , after we have been converted is that we be witnesses to His saving grace and power. We are to be commandoes for Christ. We are to be minute-men for Him.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
When brothers and sisters in Christ unite in the common bond of the Word of God and prayer, they are strengthened in their faith and witness.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Spirit goes ahead of us when we witness— preparing the way, giving us the words, and granting us courage.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The lukewarm Christian can accomplish nothing with a whole life in which to do it. If you have lived for sin and self . . . your witness will have [a] telling effect on all who have known you.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Christians ought to carry written in our hearts the solemn truth of how short is our opportunity to witness for Christ and live for Him.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
While separation does not mean disengagement from the world, there are certain activities and places that God clearly wants us to avoid not only to protect ourselves from spiritual harm but so that the witness we have will not be tarnished.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The greatest way to witness is through the life you live. Let the radiance of your Christian life be such that it will make [others] ask questions about your [faith].
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God’s love for them in Christ.
— Billy Graham
When Christ’s love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The mystery of God’s love would not be a mystery if we knew all the answers.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I urge new converts to take plenty of time in Bible study and prayer before getting on a public platform to testify.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The unbelieving world should see our testimony lived out daily because it just may point them to the Savior.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We should not let a day go by without thanking God for His mercy and grace to us in Jesus Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Thanksgiving is recognition of a debt that cannot be paid. We express thanks, whether or not we are able otherwise to reimburse the giver.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The greatest testimony to this dark world today would be a band of crucified and risen men and women, dead to sin and alive unto God, bearing in their bodies “the marks of the Lord Jesus” [Galatians 6:17 NKJV].
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The devil will try to discourage you, to divert you; he will seek to dilute your testimony; he will attempt anything to destroy your relationship to Christ and your influence upon others.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Our creativity, our inner sense of right and wrong, our ability to love and to reason—all bear witness to the fact that God created us in His image. The Bible says God “has not left himself without testimony” [Acts 14:17 NIV].
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
No Christian has the right to go around wringing his hands, wondering what we are to do in the face of the present world situation. The Scripture says that in the midst of persecution, confusion, wars, and rumors of wars, we are to comfort one another with the knowledge that Jesus Christ is coming back in triumph, glory, and majesty.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Subtle persecution may happen to you in your office, school, or social gathering. You may not be “with it,” or be “one of the crowd.” No suffering that the Christian endures for Christ is ever in vain.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If you take a stand [for God] and mean it, you may suffer persecution. Some of your friends will drift away. They don’t want to be with people like you. You speak to their conscience. They feel uncomfortable in your presence because you live for God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We can take persecution because we know the purpose behind it. The purpose is to glorify God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
While Christians in America have worshipped without the fear or threat of physical abuse for their beliefs, thousands of their brothers in Christ throughout the world have been tortured and martyred for confessing the name of Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
In a country where Christians were looked upon with suspicion and disfavor, a government leader said to me with a twinkle in his eye, “Christians seem to thrive under persecution. Perhaps we should prosper them, and then they would disappear.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Throughout the world today there are people who are enduring cruelties and persecution because of their Christian faith. We must pray for them, and for ourselves, so that in our own dying hour God will give us grace to endure until the end, anticipating the certainty of His glory to come.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Persecution may wear an insulting face. Insults may come as a result of a Christian’s lifestyle, which should be different from that of the secular world.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Bible clearly says that faithfulness and persecution often go hand in hand.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Bearing our cross does not mean wearing gunny sacks and long faces. Some people . . . wear the look of a martyr every time they hear criticism. Sometimes we deserve the criticism we receive; however, we are blessed only when men speak evil against us falsely for Christ’s sake.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite “thank you,” it is the recognition of dependence.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We should not covet or expect the praise of ungodly men . . . the very fact that they are inclined to persecute us is proof that we are “not of the world.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Why should we give God thanks? Because everything we have comes from God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won’t grumble. Grumble and you won’t be grateful.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
As you think about the future . . . give thanks and trust God . . . Even when life may be difficult, we should thank God for all He does for us—which we do not deserve.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
It is not just becoming a Christian; it is also being a Christian all the time, 24 hours a day.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Time is running out. The seconds are ticking away toward midnight. The human race is about to take the fatal plunge . . . Is there any authority left? Is there a path we can follow? Can we find a code book that will give us the key to our dilemmas? We do have authoritative source material. It is found in the ancient and historic Book we call the Bible.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We are accountable to [God] for the way we use our time.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Once a minute passes it can never be reclaimed.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Heaven has no clocks or calendars, and time will be no more [Revelation 10:6].
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We relegate God to our spare time—but end up never having any spare time! Jesus said, “Seek first his kingdom” [Matthew 6:33 NIV].
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
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.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The most important events in human history were the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give them completely and unreservedly to Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The resurrection of Christ changed the midnight of bereavement into a sunrise of reunion
—  it changed the midnight of disappointment into a sunrise of joy
Because of what Jesus Christ did for us through His cross and resurrection, we know that we have hope for the future.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
By [Christ’s] resurrection life, He gives us the power over the tendency to sin as we allow Him to control our lives.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Never forget that the resurrection of Christ is in many ways the central event of all history.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
At the return of Christ the resurrection of believers will take place. It will take the unbelieving world by surprise.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Death has two stages, first the separation of the body from the spirit . . . for a purely spiritual existence, and second, reunion with the body and a glorious resurrection at the Second Coming of Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The resurrection is our great hope.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Bible teaches that you have three enemies . . . the devil . . . the world . . . the flesh.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Christ broke the bonds of death by His resurrection, and from that moment on, Satan was a defeated foe.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as “the century of superficiality.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Christians are to be “the light of the world” [Matthew 5:14], illuminating the darkness caused by sin and giving guidance to a world that has lost its way.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
As Christians we have a responsibility toward the poor, the oppressed, the downtrodden, and the many innocent people around the world who are caught in wars, natural disasters, and situations beyond their control.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Bible teaches that we have a Christian duty to help our neighbors in their time of need. We are called by God to bring the water of life for both soul and body. God created them both, and His purpose is to redeem them both.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
May our gratitude find expression in our prayers and our service for others, and in our commitment to live wholly for Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Be honest about your weaknesses and ask God to help you overcome them so you can serve Christ more effectively.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God wants to use you right where you are. Every day you probably come in contact with people who will never enter a church, or talk with a pastor, or open a Bible— and God wants to use you to point them to Christ. You may be the “bridge” God would use to bring them to Himself.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Oh God, if You want me to serve You, I will. I’ll be what You want me to be. I’ll go where You want me to go.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If we are going to touch the people of our communities, we too must know their sorrows, feel for them in their temptations, stand with them in their heartbreaks. Jesus Christ entered into the arena of our troubles, and He wept with them that wept and rejoiced with them that rejoiced.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Many Christians would prefer to hear “What a great guy” from the crowd rather than “Well done, good and faithful servant” from the Master [Matthew 25:23].
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
One of Satan’s most effective ways of blocking God’s work is to convince us God can’t use us to make an impact for Christ. But it isn’t true. All around you are people no one else will ever be able to reach with the Gospel.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Jesus, by example, tells us that every true leader should be a helper, a servant, or even a bondslave. This is a command, not a suggestion, and applies with special force to leaders.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The strain of Christian service can result in sickness . . . I have known Christian workers who have risked their lives and health in serving the Lord.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Thinking of and serving with others can be an antidote to negative and unhealthy introspection.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God never calls a person [into His service] without equipping him. I know that from experience.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Persecution is one of the natural consequences of living the Christian life. It is to the Christian what “growing pains” are to the growing child. No pain, no development. No suffering, no glory. No struggle, no victory. No persecution, no reward!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
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.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Popularity and adulation are far more dangerous for the Christian than persecution. It is easy when all goes smoothly to lose our sense of balance and perspective.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The world doesn’t really have much respect for Christians who adopt its fashions and ideas. It is inclined to regard them with contempt—to write them off either as cowards who are ashamed of their faith or as frauds whose profession is not sincere.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
There must be no discrepancy between what we say and what we do, between our walk and our talk.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
[There are] seven gifts God gives you when you commit your life to Christ: a new relationship, a new citizenship, a new family, a new purpose, a new power, a new destiny, and a new journey.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The closer you are to God, the farther you are from the devil.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Some things never change. Not the ABC’s, not the multiplication tables, not God!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
When God speaks to us, He should have our full attention.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God has paid the greatest debt you will ever incur, and once you understand the incredible sacrifice He has made just for you, you will feel compelled to turn to God and to accept Jesus Christ into your heart.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Benevolent hands reach down from heaven to offer us the most hopeful warning and remedy: “Prepare to meet your God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.
— Billy Graham
All believers are called to be holy in mind, body, and spirit (1 Peter 1:15).
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If we are living according to what we believe, we may be falsely accused.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Make it your goal to become more like Christ by refusing to let sin have its way, and pursuing instead that which is pure and good in the sight of God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We often seek to please ourselves first, instead of God. What is interesting is that when we seek to please God first, very often we discover that we end up far more pleased than we did when we put ourselves first.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I am engaged in spiritual warfare every day. I must never let down my guard—I must keep armed.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Being” is far more important than “doing.” When we are what we should be inside, we will bring forth fruit.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Submission . . . involves getting rid of everything which hinders God’s control over our lives.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Whatever is unlike Christ in conduct, speech, or disposition grieves the Spirit of grace.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
To be Spirit-filled is to be controlled or dominated by the Spirit’s presence and power.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The lives of many reflect the practices and standards of this present world . . . they are more interested in imitating the world system dominated by Satan than in imitating Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We have been told by God that if we sin against Him and break His commandments, He will bring judgment upon the world. It is my responsibility and my duty as a minister of the Gospel to [warn] people. This is the message I must deliver.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Denying the existence of God cannot make Him go away any more than denying the existence of the Internal Revenue Service can make the tax man vanish. Many people who imagine a god of their own choosing will be horrified when they stand before the true God of heaven.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Extremes should be avoided.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
[Our] minds are molded in many different ways— often in ways we are not aware of at the time. I am convinced that many things—the films we watch, the television we see, the music we listen to, the books we read—have a great effect on us.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The more we yield to pressure, the more easily we will yield next time.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Delighting in the Lord alters the desires.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Most of us know about God, but that is quite different from knowing God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The wheels of [God’s] mercy and justice move quietly and silently, but they do move.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God is not bound by a body, yet He is a Person. He feels, He thinks, He loves, He forgives, He sympathizes with the problems and sorrows that we face.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God can be everywhere at once, heeding the prayers of all who call out in the name of Christ; performing the mighty miracles that keep the stars in their places, and the plants bursting up through the earth, and the fish swimming in the sea. There is no limit to God. There is no limit to His wisdom. There is no limit to His power. There is no limit to His love. There is no limit to His mercy.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn’t in you. Church can become a drab thing and the Bible an irksome Book if the Holy Spirit does not illuminate your soul with His indwelling presence.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
At this crucial point in world history, everyone should be seeking an answer to the question, “What is God like?” Everyone should ask it, and everyone should make very sure of the answer . . . The Bible says, “. . . God has shown it to them” [Romans 1:19 NKJV].
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Nothing in our lives takes God by surprise.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God is not a bargaining God. You cannot barter with Him. You must do business with Him on His own terms.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If we read the Bible as carefully and as regularly as we read the daily papers, we would be as familiar with and as well informed about God as we are about our favorite player’s batting average during baseball season!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We have a conception that God is a haphazard God with no set of rules of life and salvation. Ask the astronomer if God is a haphazard God. He will tell you that every star moves with precision in its celestial path.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If you have been trying to limit God—stop it! Don’t try to confine Him or His works to any single place or sphere. You wouldn’t try to limit the ocean.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Getting to know God and being able to call on Him is the most important step in storing up for the storms.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God began by revelation to build a bridge between Himself and people.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
To live the life of God we must have the nature of God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Your yearning for God must supersede all other desires. It must be like a gnawing hunger and a burning thirst.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Remember that “where God guides, He provides. Where He leads, He supplies all needs.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Has God designated any one person here on earth to speak with final authority about Him? No—the one Man who could do that lived two thousand years ago, and we crucified Him!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God says that we can learn a great deal about Him just by observing nature. Because He has spoken through His universe, all men are without excuse for not believing in Him. This is why the Psalmist said: “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God” [Psalm 14:1 KJV].
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God’s mercy.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If we believe in what God made and what God said, we will believe in the One whom God sent.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We must practice the Presence of God. Jesus said, “Lo, I am with you always” [Matthew 28:20]. Remember, Christ is always near us.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
There are those who say that all roads lead to God. But Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” [John 14:6 KJV].
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God holds every man accountable for his rejection of Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Every law that God has given has been for man’s benefit. If man breaks it, he is not only rebelling against God; he is hurting himself.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God is able to do what we can’t do.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God has revealed Himself in the Book called the Bible.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Man would have remained forever lost if God in His infinite mercy had not sent His Son to earth to bridge this gulf.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
People do not come to hear what I have to say—they want to know what God has to say.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Energy out of control is dangerous
—  energy under control is powerful . . .Science takes a Niagara River with its violent turbulence and transforms it into electrical energy to illuminate a million homes and to turn the productive wheels of industry. [God] does in the spiritual realm what science does in the physical realm.
For centuries mankind has been on an incredible journey, taking him across every generation and through every conceivable experience in his search for God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Many people say they do not fear death, but the process of dying. It’s not the destination, but the trip that they dread.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The word departure literally means to pull up anchor and set sail. Everything that happens prior to death is a preparation for the final voyage. Death marks the beginning, not the end. It is our journey to God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Death for the Christian is the doorway to heaven’s glory. Because of Christ’s resurrection we can joyously say with Paul, “Where, O death, is your victory?” [1 Corinthians 15:55 NIV].
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Jesus Christ was the Master Realist when He urged men to prepare for death, which was certain to come. Do not worry, said the Lord Jesus, about the death of the body, but rather concern yourself with the eternal death of the soul.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Death is not the end of the road—it is merely a gateway to eternal life beyond the grave.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
For the Christian, death can be faced realistically and with victory, because he knows “that neither death nor life . . . shall be able to separate us from the love of God” [Romans 8:38–39 NKJV].
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Throughout our culture we have been led to the idea that we accept death as the end of life on earth . . .Time bound as we are and goal oriented to achievements in our lifetime, we find it strange to anticipate heaven.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Sooner or later, we are going to face death; should we be making preparations while we are living?
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If people paid more attention to death, eternity, and judgment, there would be more holy living on earth.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Death is said in the Bible to be a coronation for the Christian.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
It is strange that men will prepare for everything except death. We prepare for education. We prepare for business. We prepare for our careers. We prepare for marriage. We prepare for old age. We prepare for everything except the moment we are to die.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Death reduces all men to the same rank. It strips the rich of his millions and the poor man of his rags . . .Death knows no age limits, no partiality. It is a thing that all men fear.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
One of the primary goals in life should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
No matter how much you exercise, no matter how many vitamins or health foods you eat, no matter how low your cholesterol, you will still die—someday. If you knew the moment and manner of your death in advance, would you order your life differently?
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Death for [a Christian] is no accident. With God there are no accidents, no tragedies, and no catastrophes as far as His children are concerned.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
When we all reach the end of our earthly journey, we will have just begun.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Though the Christian has no immunity from death and no claim to perpetual life on this planet, death is to him a friend rather than a foe, the beginning rather than the end, another step on the pathway to heaven rather than a leap into a dark unknown.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The word decease literally means “exodus” or “going out.” The imagery is that of the children of Israel leaving Egypt and their former life of bondage, slavery, and hardship for the Promised Land. So death to the Christian is an exodus from the limitations, the burdens, and the bondage of this life.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
From the moment a child is born, the death process, and the fight against it, begins.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Death is not the end of life
—  it is only the gateway to eternity.
Christ did not die by accident. He died voluntarily in our place.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Someday this life will end, but for the Christian death also marks a beginning—the beginning of a new life with God that will last forever.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I’m not afraid to die, for I know the joys of heaven are waiting. My greatest desire is to live today in anticipation of tomorrow and be ready to be welcomed into His home for all eternity. Will you be making the journey with me?
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Death carries with it a certain dread. It [is] the enemy, the great, mysterious monster that makes people quake with fear.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon your shoulder and this brief message will be given: “Come home.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Death of the righteous . . . is not to be feared or shunned. It is the shadowed threshold to the palace of God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it! I shall be more alive than I am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We now have the advantage of a few years more of life, but death is still standing at the end of the road.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Cut out some of your “important social engagements,” and make your home the center of your social life. God will honor you, and your children will grow up to call you “blessed” [Proverbs 31:28].
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
In many homes and among so-called educated people—it has become fashionable to joke about the Bible and to regard it more as a dust-catcher than as the living Word of God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Many homes are on the rocks today because God has been left out of the domestic picture. With the clash of personalities in a domestic pattern, there must be an integrating force, and the living God is that Force!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If there were no heaven and no hell, I would still want to be a Christian because of what it does for our homes and our own families in this life.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
With the breakdown of discipline in the home and with every source of amusement and instruction pouring poison into daily life, it is not to be wondered that the minds of people are ready to receive anything but the truth and that they are ready to believe lies and ultimately the lie.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The world is not a permanent home, it is only a temporary dwelling.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
It is far easier to live an excellent life among your friends, when you are putting your best foot forward and are conscious of public opinion, than it is to live for Christ in your home.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The broken home has become the number one social problem of America, and could ultimately lead to the destruction of our civilization . . . it does not make screaming headlines; but, like termites, it is eating away at the heart and core of the American structure.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If you are a true Christian, you will not give way at home to bad temper, impatience, fault-finding, sarcasm, unkindness, suspicion, selfishness, or laziness.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
How many homes are broken because of men and women who are unfaithful! God will not hold you guiltless! There is a day of reckoning. “Be sure your sin will find you out” (Numbers 32:23 ESV). They will find you out in your own family life here in your relationship with your mate
—  they will find you out in the life to come.
The home only fulfills its true purpose when it is God-controlled. Leave Jesus Christ out of your home and it loses its meaning. But take Christ into your heart and the life of your family, and He will transform your home.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
When we are young and restless to be free, home is the place from which we long to escape. But if there is still a home intact when trouble arises and life becomes a battlefield, home is the place to which we yearn to return.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Bible takes the word home with all of its tender associations and sacred memories, and applies it to the hereafter and tells us that heaven is home.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God does not want an apartment in our house. He claims our entire home from attic to cellar.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Lord Jesus Christ is preparing a home fit for all who live for Him, a place designed for the church triumphant. Let’s exemplify the work of His hands, for they are busy, on our behalf, building a city large enough to encompass His people of faith—an eternal home for the soul.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
One final reason for choosing God’s path is of supreme importance: It leads us home.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
For the believer there is hope beyond the grave, because Jesus Christ has opened the door to heaven for us by His death and resurrection.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Christ wants to give you hope for the future. He wants you to learn what it means to walk with Him every day. When you come to Christ, God gives you eternal life—which begins right now as you open your heart to Him.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Faith points us beyond our problems to the hope we have in Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
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.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Earth’s troubles fade in the light of heaven’s hope.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Only because Jesus is God and we have confessed Him as Savior and Lord, can He bestow and we receive these benefits, this blessed assurance and hope (see Romans 10:9).
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Our world today desperately hungers for hope, and yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
All mankind is sitting on Death Row. How we die or when is not the main issue, but where [we] go after death.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Death is not a trip, but a destination.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Someone has said that death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
What is heaven? It’s the home that God created and He possesses. His throne room is His headquarters from which He issues His commands, directions, and prophecies. And Jesus sits at His Father’s right hand.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Sometimes . . . we grow homesick for heaven. Many times in the midst of the sin, suffering, and sorrow of this life there is a tug at our soul. That is homesickness coupled with anticipation.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
My home is in heaven. I’m just passing through this world.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Bible is clear that the Holy Spirit is God Himself.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Take care of your body
—  the Bible calls it “a temple of the Holy Spirit” [1 Corinthians 6:19 NIV.
The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
A life touched by the Holy Spirit will tolerate sin no longer.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
As humans we have two great spiritual needs. The first is forgiveness, which God has made possible by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins. Our second need, however, is for goodness, which God also made possible by sending the Holy Spirit to dwell within us.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Father is the source of all blessing, and the Son is the channel of all blessing, [and] it is through the Holy Spirit at work in us that all truth becomes living and operative in our lives.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Holy Spirit not only convicts of sin but also convinces men that Jesus is the righteousness of God. He shows sinners that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Scripture makes it clear that this planet would already be a literal hell on earth were it not for the presence of the Holy Spirit in the world.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Holy Spirit can rejuvenate a tired Christian, captivate an indifferent believer, and empower a dry church.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If we feed our spiritual lives and allow the Holy Spirit to empower us, He will have rule over us. If we starve our spiritual natures and instead feed the old, sinful nature, the flesh will dominate.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Christians, day by day, week by week, and month by month, are told to walk in the Spirit. Walking in the Spirit means being led and directed by the Holy Spirit. This comes as we progressively yield various areas of our lives to the Spirit’s control. Now desire in itself is not wrong, it’s what we desire or lust for that is wrong—and when we yield.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Holy Spirit gives liberty to the Christian, direction to the worker, discernment to the teacher, power to the Word, and fruit to faithful service. He reveals the things of Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If Christians realized that God Himself in the person of the Holy Spirit really dwells within our bodies, we would be far more careful about what we eat, drink, look at, or read. No wonder Paul said, “I beat my body and make it my slave” [1 Corinthians 9:27 NIV]. This should drive us to our knees in confession.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Faithfulness is produced by the Holy Spirit in a yielded Christian life.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
It is never a question of how much you and I have of the Spirit, but how much He has of us.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Because [the Holy Spirit] is a spirit, [He] isn’t limited by time or space. He can be everywhere at once. He is in the midst of the largest galaxy—and the smallest atom.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If you know Christ, you don’t need to beg for the Holy Spirit to come into your life; He is already there—whether you “feel” His presence or not. Don’t confuse the Holy Spirit with an emotional feeling or a particular type of spiritual experience.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Sometimes I feel so helpless and inadequate, and wonder if I have done enough to make the Gospel clear. But I also know that only the Holy Spirit can open others’ eyes to the truth.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We shouldn’t refer to the Spirit as “it”; instead we should always refer to the Spirit as “He”—because the Holy Spirit is a Person. He speaks to us, He commands us, He intercedes for us, He hears us, He guides us.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The home is basically a sacred institution . . . Faith in Christ is the most important of all principles in the building of a happy marriage and a successful home.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Home was a refuge for me, a place I could truly relax.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
My wife Ruth once said, “If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakeable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Bible teaches that our homes should be hospitable and that those who come in and out of our homes should sense the presence of Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The happiest Christian homes I know are those given to hospitality, where neighbors feel at home, where young people are welcome, where the elderly are respected, where children are loved.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God undertook the most dramatic rescue operation in cosmic history. He determined to save the human race from self-destruction, and He sent His Son Jesus Christ to salvage and redeem them. The work of man’s redemption was accomplished at the cross.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The cross is the suffering love of God bearing the guilt of man’s sin, which alone is able to melt the sinner’s heart and bring him to repentance for salvation. “For he hath made him to be sin for us” [2 Corinthians 5:21 KJV].
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The heart of the Christian Gospel with its incarnation and atonement is in the cross and the resurrection. Jesus was born to die.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Why is it that the cross has become the symbol of Christianity? It is because at the cross Jesus purchased our redemptionand provided a righteousness which we could not ourselves earn.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The ground is level at the foot of the cross.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put [Jesus] on the cross—it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer his death.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Two thousand years ago God invited a morally corrupt world to the foot of the cross. There God held your sins and mine to the flames until every last vestige of our guilt was consumed.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
It has been said there was a cross in the heart of God long before the cross was erected at Calvary. As we think about it we will be overwhelmed at the wonder and greatness of His love for us.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
When Jesus hung on the cross, a great unseen cosmic battle raged in the heavens—and in the end, Christ triumphed over all the forces of evil and death and hell.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The greatest vision of sin that a person canever receive is to look at the cross.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God’s house will be happy because Christ will be there.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes