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Have you ever seen a person who was receiving a blood transfusion? The blood was precious, life-giving, and certainly not repulsive. The blood of Christ may seem to be a grim and repulsive subject . . .[but] the blood of Christ is precious.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Blood is the symbol of the life sacrificed for sin.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Once for all God made complete and perfect provision for the cure of man’s sins; without the blood of Christ, it is indeed a fatal disease.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We are called to obey Christ. He is the Master of our lives and has washed us in His blood, which cleanses our souls, our minds, and our mouths. The world is watching. What do they see and hear?
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
To many people, the mention of the blood of Christ is distasteful. However, on [a] visit to Mayo Clinic I noticed that at each reception desk there were pamphlets entitled A Gift of Life, urging people to donate blood.Anyone who has gone through surgery and looked up to seethe bag of blood dripping slowly into his veins,realizes with gratitude the life-giving property of blood.5
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Blood is mentioned 460 times in the Bible. Fourteen times in the New Testament Jesus spoke of His own blood. Why? Because by the shedding of His blood, He accomplished the possibility of our salvation.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The distinctive feature of Christianity is blood atonement. Without it we cannot be saved. Blood is actually a symbol of the death of Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
[Today] there is less emphasis on redemption by the blood of Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Today the idea of the shed blood of Christ is becoming old-fashioned and out of date in a lot of preaching. It is in the Bible. It is the very heart of Christianity.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Anxiety and fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Look up on a starry night, and you will see the majesty and power of an infinite Creator.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Though we have less to worry about than previous generations, we have more worry. Though we have it easier than our forefathers, we have more uneasiness. Though we have less real cause for anxiety than our predecessors, we are inwardly more anxious.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Hypochondriacs who have a fanciful anxiety about their health will never be well regardless of their physical condition.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age?
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God’s star promised peace to the whole world . . .too often man’s synthetic stars bring fear and anxiety. Our gadget-filled paradise, suspended in a hell of international insecurity, certainly does not offer us the happiness of which the last century dreamed. But there is still a star in the sky.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
No situation is beyond God’s control. Over my wife’s desk are these words: “Fear not the future
—  God is already there.
Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world’s goods.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
A professor at the University of Michigan said to me: “As soon as we create life in a test tube, we won’t need God anymore.” I answered: “This happened once before when man ruled God out and proposed the Tower of Babel. It ended in frustration, confusion, and judgment.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Bible is the one book which reveals the Creator to the creature He created! No other book that man has conceived can make that statement and support it with fact.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Have we just been placed here by some unknown creator or force without any clue as to where we came from, why we are here, and where we are going? The answer is “no.” We do have a code. We do have a key . . . the Bible.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The only one who can re-create us is the One who created us in the first place. If your watch were out of order, you wouldn’t take it to a blacksmith. If your car needed overhauling, you wouldn’t go to a machine shop. Our spiritual problems can be solved only by the God who created us originally.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
As a Christian, I believe that we are all created in the image of God. I believe that God loves the whole world . . .The life of no human being is cheap in the eyes of God, nor can it be in our own eyes.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
There is no conclusive scientific evidence that man is “up from the ape.” While the animals were created “after their kind,” we are told that “God created man in His own image” [Genesis 1:27 NKJV].
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
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!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Any theory of the universe that does not take into account the God and Creator of the universe is not worthy of serious consideration.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God is the Ruler of His mighty creation. There is no reason to despair, because He holds in His hands the whole world, while His Spirit is able to fill the void in man’s heart.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
[God] has in mind a picture of what He intends to create. He breaks, cracks, chisels, and polishes until one day there emerges His vision . . . God has not yet finished with us.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
By faith I accepted Him for what He claimed to be, the Son of the Living God. That simple decision changed my life—and I have seen it change the lives of countless others across the world.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
When my decision for Christ was made . . . I knelt in prayer. I opened my heart and knew for the first time the sweetness and joy of God, of truly being born again . . .I knew in my heart that I was somehow different and changed. That night absolutely changed the direction of my life.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Deep down inside I knew something was different . . .I wanted to tell others what had happened to me. I didn’t have any tears, I didn’t have any emotion, I didn’t hear any thunder, there was no lightning . . . but . . . I made my decision for Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
You need to make the right decision—firmly and decisively—and then stick with it with God’s help.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Conscience is our wisest counselor and teacher, our most faithful and most patient friend.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
You will never know the peace with God, peace of conscience, peace of mind, and peace of soul until you stand at the foot of the cross and identify yourself with Christ by faith . . . this is peace with God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Christ can rid you of inner conflict. Man without God is always torn between two urges. His nature prompts him to do wrong, and his conscience urges him to do right.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
In your own mind-darkened, will-paralyzed, conscience-dulled soul, God can make the light penetrate and turn the darkness of your own life into day, if you will let Him.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We’ve tried calling sin “errors” or mistakes” or “poor judgment,” but sin itself has stayed the same. No matter how we try to salve our conscience, we’ve known all along that men are still sinners; and the results of sin are still disease, disappointment, disillusionment, despair, and death.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Conscience tells us in our innermost being of the presence of God and of the moral difference between good and evil; but this is a fragmentary message, in no way as distinct and comprehensive as the lessons of the Bible.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilty conscience were worse than prison bars.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Dishonesty is never justified. God will never approve, and even your own conscience will rise up to condemn you sooner or later.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The human conscience is often beyond the grasp of a psychiatrist . . .Humans are helpless to detach themselves from the gnawing guilt of a heart bowed down with the weight of sin. But where humans have failed, God has succeeded.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The human conscience is reliable only when it is guided by the Holy Spirit.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Some Christians have an elastic conscience when it comes to their own foibles—and an ironbound conscience when it comes to the foibles of others.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Sin also affects the conscience, until one becomes slow to detect the approach of sin.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
There are storms in your own life: storms oftemptation, confusion, and difficulty . . .An uneasy conscience says, “Stop before it is too late!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
As a person finds God’s will for his or her life, matters of conscience can be handled with perception from the Holy Spirit.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The one and only choice by which you can be converted is your choice to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as your own personal Lord and Savior. The word “conversion” means simply “turning.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
In every true conversion the will of man comes into line with the will of God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
True conversion will involve the mind, the affection, and the will. There have been thousands of people who have been intellectually converted to Christ . . .but they have never been really converted to Him.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The converted person will love the good he once hated, and hate the sin he once loved.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
To be a Christian is not a pious pose. It is not a long list of restrictions. Christianity flings open the windows to the real joy of living. Those who have been truly converted to Jesus Christ know the meaning of abundant living.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
In order to get to heaven, Jesus said that you must be converted. I didn’t say it—Jesus said it!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
There are thousands of people who have had some form of emotional experience that they refer to as conversion but who have never been truly converted to Christ. Christ demands a change in the way you live—and if your life does not conform to your experience, then you have every reason to doubt your experience!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
It is a comfort to hear the words of God in times of stress.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God doesn’t comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We should go to no place that we would not go in His Presence. But He is not with us just to judge or condemn us; He is near to comfort, protect, guide, encourage, strengthen, cleanse, and help.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
There are countless opportunities to comfort others, not only in the loss of a loved one, but also in the daily distress that so often creeps into our lives.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
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.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
When we are a comfort and encouragement to others, we are sometimes surprised at how it comes back to us many times over.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Humanity wants comfort in its sorrow, light in its darkness, peace in its turmoil, rest in its weariness, and healing in its sickness and diseases: The Gospel gives all of this to us.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If the church is acceptable to this present ageand is not suffering reproach, then it is not the true church that our Lord founded.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The church should not reflect pop culture but portray godly attributes. The church should not seek pleasures but seek after God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The church is blending into the community by embracing what the world enjoys and, in turn, bringing inside the church the world’s ideas and interests.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Christ’s church is a place to grow people up in the Lord, not to enhance our leisure time.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Church is not for pretenders and performers. Church is a place for pastors to preach principles of the faith in order to prepare believers to face the storms of life on the stage of an unbelieving world.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The church is in turmoil today. The church is not to reflect the world but to be a portrait of Jesus Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
No church is perfect, but don’t let that discourage you. Someone has said that if you ever find one that is, it will stop being perfect the minute you join!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The church should not be pampered but rather prepare for, and expect, persecution—for it is Christ’s body on earth.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We have become so tolerant and accepting of the world’s ways that it is hard for many in the church to notice the sin much less answer how it crept in. The church is to be in the world, but worldliness is not to infiltrate the church.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
When the church begins to entertain the flock and respond to the cult of self—it is diminished to a mere community center.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The fiercest storm is taking place in some of our churches—the unbelief and disobedience of God’s Word.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
In our desire to make Christ known and to increase the influence of the church, we are many times prone to think that Christians and the church can be made popular with the unbelieving world. This is a grave mistake on the part of the church.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
It is vitally important for local church leaders to keep in touch with the spiritual state of their members, to discuss their level of biblical knowledge, and to teach them how to study God’s Word and pray.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The church is far greater than [a building or denomination]. It includes the whole family of God—that vast unseen fellowship of men and women throughout the ages who belong to Christ. Paul wrote of “God’s household, which is the church of the living God” [1 Timothy 3:15 NIV).
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God speaks to us through our conscience. This may be a “still small voice” that will not let us go until we do what we know is right . . .we must never silence that inner voice—[but] check what we think it is saying against the Scriptures.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Conscience is the detective that watches the direction of our steps and decries every conscious transgression.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Conscience is a vigilant eye before which each imagination, thought, and act is held up for either censure or approval . . .There is no greater proof of the existence of a moral law and Lawgiver in the universe than this little light of the soul. It is God’s voice to the inner man.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Do not be content to skim through a chapter [of the Bible] merely to satisfy your conscience. Hide the Word of God in your heart.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God does communicate with those who are willing to obey Him. He penetrates the dark silence with free, life-giving discoveries in nature, the human conscience, Scripture, and the Person of Jesus Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Sometimes it is difficult to differentiate the Christian from the man of the world. In America, for example, churchgoing has become popular, but churchgoing may not necessarily be accompanied by genuine depth in prayer and Bible study or a change in lifestyle.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Satan] invades the Sunday school, the Bible class, and even the pulpit. He even invades the church under cover of an orthodox vocabulary, emptying sacred terms of their biblical sense.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I am afraid the church is trying to speak out on too many issues that really do not concern the church. There are certain issues we know to be wrong—racial injustice, crime, gambling, dishonesty, pornography. On these matters we must thunder forth as the prophets of God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
In some churches today and on some religious television programs, we see the attempt to make Christianity popular and pleasant. We have taken the cross away and substituted cushions.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
In thousands of churches [people] are led astray theologically. Thus spiritually and morally they are drifting aimlessly, without compass or guide.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The church in America has been deeply infiltrated by the “world,” and in the process it is beginning to copy and resemble the world in many of its activities.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Preaching the whole council of God involves man’s environment and physical being as well as his soul. There is no doubt that the church is in danger of getting off the main track and getting lost.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God did not ordain that the church should drift aimlessly in the seas of uncertainty without compass, captain, or crew.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The church should be setting the pace. The church should be taking its proper place of leadership in the nation . . .God help the church to wake up!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The church holds the key to revival. It is within our grasp.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
America and Western Europe are on a moneymaking, pleasure-mad spree unparalleled in the history of the world. God is generally ignored or ridiculed. Church members in many cases are only halfhearted Christians. Judgment is coming.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We have been trying to solve every ill of society as though society were made up of regenerate men to whom we had an obligationto speak with Christian advice.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God’s church is a Bible-centered church, and it grows strong under persecution.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Before three thousand people were brought into the church on the day of Pentecost, the disciples had spent fifty days in prayer, fasting, and spiritual travail.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Bible nowhere teaches that the church will ultimately convert the whole world to Jesus Christ. There has never been a generation in history, nor will there ever be generation, in which the majority of the people will believe in Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Thousands of people have entered churches without discovering a vital experience with Jesus Christ. The substitutes have been handed them in the guise of religious rituals, good works, community effort, or social reform . . .none of which can gain a person a right relationship with God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
There will come a time when people hungering for the truth will seek it where it is supposedly disseminated, such as books and churches, but they will not hear the Word of the Lord. Instead of receiving a message to satisfy their spiritual longings, they will hear a sermon on some current political or social problem, or a sermonette on art and literature. And so they wander from one place to another, going from hope to despair, and eventually giving up.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Unless the church quickly recovers the authoritative biblical message, we may witness the spectacle of millions of Christians going outside the institutional church to find spiritual food.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
What right does any church have even attempting to approve of lifestyles or certain acts for which God prescribed the death penalty in the Old Testament?
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
There are many who sit in some churches week after week, year after year, without hearing the whole Gospel and knowing what it is to be born again. They hear a gospel which is incomplete, and consequently not good news at all.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Statistics indicate that the church is rapidly losing in the population explosion. There are fewer Christians per capita every day.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The church has lost its ability to discipline members who live openly in sin. Consequently, we have lost our witness in the community.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The church is a storehouse of spiritual food whereby the inner man is fed, nourished, and developed into maturity. If it fails, it is not fulfilling its purpose as a church.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
It could be said that going to church will not make one a Christian. But . . . refusing to fellowship with believers will not make you one either.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I hope the day will never come when the church abandons the “class meeting” and the prayer service . . .The old-fashioned “testimony” meeting should be revived, for through this medium we can share with others our faith and triumphs as well as our needs and mistakes.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Down through the centuries the church has contributed more than any other single agency in lifting social standards to new heights.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The church isn’t just a particular building or congregation but the spiritual fellowship of all who belong to Jesus Christ. If we belong to Christ, we also belong to each other.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Many churches have molded their programs around the community—not the Word of God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Lord did not design the church to cater to people’s needs—the Lord breathed life into the church to proclaim His truths.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The church does not prey on the lost
—  it prays for the perishing.
It is unbelief that shuts the door to heaven and opens it to hell. It is unbelief that rejects the Word of God and refuses Christ as Savior. It is unbelief that causes men to turn a deaf ear to the Gospel.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The subject of heaven is much easier to accept than the subject of hell. And yet the Bible teaches both.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Not one word about hell in the Bible would ever make you want to go there.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial, and misunderstood . . .As a minister I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Among those Christians to whom hell means little, Calvary means less.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, “Yes!” He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because . . .he refuses God’s way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Bible teaches there is hell for every person who willingly and knowingly rejects Christ as Lord and Savior. Many passages could be quoted to support that fact.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality of such a place.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Some teach “universalism”—that eventually everybody will be saved and the God of love will never send anyone to hell. They believe the words “eternal” or “everlasting” do not actually mean forever. However, the same word which speaks of eternal banishment from God is also used for the eternity of heaven.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
A seminary professor I once knew told his students, “Never preach about hell without tears in your eyes.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I would not change places with the wealthiest and most influential person in the world. I would rather be a child of the King, a joint-heir with Christ, a member of the Royal Family of heaven!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Your life is intricately woven into the lives of scores and hundreds of others around you. Consider the variety of lives that you influence in one day. Somewhere within your circle of contacts someone is being hurt. Are you aware of it?
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Apart from religious influence, the family is the most important unit of society.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God will never lead contrary to His word—so get acquainted with the Word of God, the Bible. Pray. He leads through the illumination of the Holy Spirit in our hearts. Use whatever you have and be faithful. We are called to serve Christ in our sphere of influence.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
It doesn’t take great wealth or social influence to be faithful, but it does take obedience and endurance.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The way in which we react to hurts and disappointments influences the shaping of our personalities.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Salt and light speak of the influence Christians can exercise for good in society.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We must understand what the word believe implies. It means “commit” and “surrender.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We can hold nothing back [from God]. He must control and dominate us [wholly]. It is a surrender without any conditions attached. This surrender is a definite and conscious act on our part in obedience to the Word of God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
There is not one verse of Scripture that indicates you can be a Christian and live any kind of a life you want to. When Christ enters into the human heart, He expects to be Lord and Master. He commands complete surrender.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Faith actually means surrender and commitment to the claims of Christ. It means an acknowledgment of sin and a turning to Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Jesus expects one hundred percent surrender, and when that is accomplished He rewards a thousandfold.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Surrendering to Christ is like signing your name to a blank check and letting the Lord put in the amount.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
In our spiritual pilgrimage we see sins which mar our relationship with God, but beneath it is a commitment which seeks to move beyond to a higher life, based on wholehearted surrender to God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Pentecost was the day of power of the Holy Spirit. It was the day the Christian church was born.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The word church as applied to the Christian society was first used by Jesus Himself when He told Peter, “Upon this rock I will build my church” [Matthew 16:18]. He is the foundation of all Christian experience.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The blood of Christ purchased the church.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If we in the church want a cause to fight, let’s fight sin. Let’s reveal its hideousness. Let’s show that Jeremiah was correct when e said: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked” [Jeremiah 17:9 NKJV].
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I am convinced if the church went back to the main task of proclaiming the Gospel it would see people being converted to Christ, and it would have a far greater impact on the social, moral, and psychological needs of people than anything else it could possibly do.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Movie and television stars lay down the law offashions, manners, speech, and even moral behavior. It has been proven that a movie or a television program can brainwash.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
New morality is nothing more than the old immorality brought up to date.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Truth is timeless. Truth does not differ from one age to another, from one people to another, from one geographical location to another . . . the great all-prevailing Truth stands for time and eternity.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Because truth is unpopular does not mean that it should not be proclaimed.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Our emotions can lie to us, and we need to counter our emotions with truth.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Where there is truth and error there is always compromise. Within some churches there is a movement to reshape the Christian messageto make it more acceptable to man.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If our minds and hearts are not filled with God’s truth, something else will take His place: cynicism, occultism, false religions and philosophies, drugs—the list is endless.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
At the end of his life Buddha said: “I am still searching for truth.” This statement could be made by countless thousands of scientists, philosophers, and religious leaders throughout all history. However, Jesus Christ made the astounding claim: I am . . . the truth” [John 14:6]. He is the embodiment of all truth. The only answer to man’s search is found in Him.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
It is Satan’s purpose to steal the seed of truth from your heart by sending distracting thoughts . . . The difference between a Christian and a non-Christian is: though they both may have good and evil thoughts, Christ gives His followers strength to select the right rather than the wrong.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Holy Spirit can take God’s word of truthand minister it to our deepest needs.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
It is far better to know God’s truth than to be ignorant of it.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Honesty means exactly what it says. We are honest and trustworthy in all our dealings. People can trust our word, because we refuse to lie or shade the truth.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with God’s moral code.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We have glamorized vice and minimized virtue. We have played down gentleness, manners, and morals—while we have played up rudeness, savagery, and vice . . . and the philosophy of “might is right.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We do not need a new moral order
—  the world desperately needs the tried and tested moral order that God handed down at Sinai.
The Bible teaches that man can undergo a radical spiritual and moral change that is brought about by God Himself.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
What happens when lying and stealing and immorality and murder become the norm? The result can be summarized in one word: chaos.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Immorality is glorified today. The Scripture teaches that God hates immorality! The ideal of purity is scorned, immorality is laughed at in school—“God is old-fashioned!” What else can we expect but that thousands of our young people are growing up to be immoral?7
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The first and second commandments are the only therapy the world has ever needed. “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind . . . Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” [Matthew 22:37, 39 KJV].
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
This is a high-strung, neurotic, impatient age. We hurry when there is no reason to hurry, just to be hurrying. This fast-paced age has produced more problems and less morality than previous generations, and it has given us jangled nerves. Impatience as produced a crop of broken homes, ulcers, and has set the stage for more world wars.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The fact that immorality is rampant throughout the nation doesn’t make it right!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Ten Commandments are just as valid today as they were when God gave them. They reflect the moral character of God, and they also provide the foundation of right living with others.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Bible says more about hell than about heaven.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
No one spoke more about hell than Jesus did, and the hell He came to save men from was not only a hell on earth . . .it was something to come.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We will be judged according to our ability. The retired couple who count the offering every Sunday, never divulging the amount anyone in the congregation contributes, will not be tested in the same way as the millionaire who wants an inscription on the stained glass window, so everyone will know who donated it. Some of the most severe tests will be given to the [preachers] for the way in which they handled the Word of God. There will be no reward for leading others astray in lifestyle or in doctrine through false teaching.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
When we all stand before the judgment seat of Christ, we will have our true motives revealed.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together. What our young people want to see in their elders is integrity, honesty, truthfulness, and faith. What they hate most of all is hypocrisy and phoniness . . . Let them see us doing what we would like them to do.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
[Integrity] means a person is the same on the inside as he or she claims to be on the outside. He is the same person alone in a hotel room a thousand miles from home as he is at work or in his community or with his family. A man of integrity can be trusted.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Being pure in conduct also includes honesty and integrity in dealing with our fellowmen. A Christian should be known in his neighborhood or place of business as an honest person.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
A godly person—one who serves Christ and exhibits purity and integrity in his life—is not necessarily welcomed or admired by those who live differently. They may even react in scorn, or refuse to include a christian in their social gatherings because his very presence is a rebuke to them.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God’s standard is expressed in the Bible, and the ultimate example of that standard is Jesus Christ. When we live by the truth, we possess integrity.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Integrity means that we are trustworthy and dependable, and our character is above reproach.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Unless men of purpose, integrity, and faith stand together in unswerving loyalty to Jesus Christ, the future of the world is dark indeed.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I believe integrity can be restored to a society one person at a time. The choice belongs to each of us.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Our world today is looking for men and women with integrity, for communicators who back up their ministry with their lives. Our preaching emerges out of what we are. We are called to be a holy people—separated from the moral evils of the world.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The truth is that others judge us. More than that, they evaluate the truth of the Gospel by what they see of our lives and our integrity. [We] must make every effort to be above all suspicion in the matter of finances and statistics. We are not only accountable to God’s people, but also to our Master (see Acts 24:16).
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We will be judged according to the secret motives and the character of our work. If we have done our work for selfish motives or personal gain, even if the results looked noble to our friends and family, God knows our hearts.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Hundreds of passages point to a time of judgment for every person who has ever lived—none will escape. If you took all the references to judgment out of the Bible, you would have little Bible left.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Integrity means that if our private life was suddenly exposed, we’d have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God has already set the date [for judgment]. You may make and break appointments in this life, but this is one appointment you are going to keep.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
People judge us not by what we think or believe, but by what we do—and when our lives don’t measure up, we lose their respect and they conclude our faith isn’t real.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I believe that one of the reasons for crime, perversion, and the evils of modern mankind is that we have lost belief in the certainty of God being just, holy, and righteous, and that He will judge the world.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
A call for national and individual repentance is urgently needed today, or judgment is certain to fall.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God judges mankind by the standard of the only God-man who ever lived, Jesus Christ. Jesus, the innocent Lamb of God, stands between our sin and the judgment of God the Father.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God’s judgment echoes the sound of hoofbeats, but God’s love quietly convicts.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
In character-building and in living the Christian life, concentration is important. The [person] who has a general interest in everything usually isn’t too good at anything.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
None of us deserves God’s love. All of us deserve His righteous judgment and wrath (John 3:18, 36; Romans 3:9–12). It is easy to think of an evil and depraved man like Adolf Hitler deserving divine judgment . . .But think of the kind and good people that you know . . .They too will be lost if they refuse and neglect God’s offer of mercy and forgiveness. God’s judgment applies to them too.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
But the judgment of God is not only an event that may take place some day in history when war or conflict might bring death to millions. His judgment is more than death—it is eternal banishment from the presence of God (2 Thessalonians 1:6–10
—  Revelation 20:11–15).
One of the real tests of Christian character is to be found in the lives we live from day to day.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God promises no easy life or days without troubles, trials, difficulties, and temptations. He never promises that life will be perfect. He does not call His children to a playground, but to a battleground.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Be attractive and winsome, but do not compromise your convictions for the sake of popularity.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
When Jesus was tempted, He didn’t debate the devil. He quoted Scripture: “It is written . . . It is written . . . It is written” (Matthew 4:4–10 NKJV). And each time the devil was defeated.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We can’t flee from temptation in our own strength—but God will give us the strength we need, if we’ll only seek it. A friend of mine says, “When the devil knocks, I just send Jesus to the door!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Everyone has temptations but some folks entertain them . . .Get your eyes off the temptation and onto Christ!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I know that many of the things I have said from the Scriptures have offended, and I have sometimes been tempted to tone down the message. But, God helping me, I never will! I would become a false prophet. I would also betray my Lord.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Satan is the sower of compromise—leaving a bit of God’s truth into the dirty rags of sin. Satan is the commander in deceit, Satan is the ringleader in rebellion against the faithful.Satan is the sly serpent of temptation.Satan is the false hope of security.Satan is the great pretender.Satan is the great spoiler of everything good.And Satan wants to destroy you.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Every stage of life has its own temptations and dangers, and Satan will do all he can to exploit them . . .the time to prepare is now, not when it arrives.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The devil doesn’t need to invent any new temptations
—  the old ones work as well as they ever have.
Be very sure that you do not deliberately place yourself in a position to be tempted.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Be sure that Satan will tempt you at your weak point, not the strong.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Many Christians give in to various temptations through peer pressure and find themselves surrendering to worldly passions, justifying pleasures the world offers.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Don’t savor temptations; don’t dwell on them or toy with them or replay them over and over in your mind. The more you think about a particular temptation, the more enticing it becomes.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
All of us are not subjected to the same weaknesses and temptations.To one, alcohol may be the temptation;to another, it may be impure thoughts and acts; to another, greed and covetousness; to another, criticism and an unloving attitude.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Only a strong faith—a faith based on God’s Word—will protect us from temptation and doubt.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
A thought enters
—  we pamper it
The Bible is intensely practical, and one of the reasons God gave it to us is so we’ll be better prepared to deal with life’s problems and temptations. All too often we respond to these in ways that don’t reflect Christ . . .when we do that, Satan is the winner and the cause of Christ suffers.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Temptation: Recognize it for what it is, and then reject it—immediately and without compromise.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God never directs in a way contrary to His character. When the Scriptures tell us that He will direct our paths, we can be assured that when He is in control, no matter how thorny the path, He will not tell us to jump off a cliff.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of a person—the undergirding moral and spiritual values and commitments—is the true measure of lasting greatness.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and so is our character.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
A godlikeness of character is the Christian’s proper heritage in this earthly walk.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Trials and difficulties may assail the life of a believer, but they also have the ability to remold his character and banish from his life those impurities which might impair growth and service.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Consistency, constancy, and undeviating diligence to maintain Christian character are a must if the older generation is to command respect, or even a hearing, from the young.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
A few years ago, honesty was the hallmark of a man of good character. But it’s been set aside for an “It’s all right if you don’t get caught” philosophy.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
It is unfair to attribute virtues beyond a person’s true character.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Don’t conform to those who have been overwhelmed by the tide of immorality sweeping our country!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Peer pressure accounts for much of the promiscuous sex in high schools and colleges. “Conform or get lost.” Since no one enjoys losing friends or being cast out of his own circle, peer pressure—especially during the years of adolescence—is an almost irresistible force.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
From compromise to deceit is a small step.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The apostle Paul urges Christians everywhere in all ages to be nonconformists as far as the world system is concerned. We are not to conform. A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept themoral standards of this world.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Thousands of Christians compromise their faith in Jesus Christ by denying Him. Even some clergymen neglect or deliberately refuse to close a public prayer in the name of Jesus for fear of offending an unbeliever. They cannot endure the persecution that may follow an acknowledgment of Jesus Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
It is often asked, “How could the early disciples turn the world upside downwhen millions of Christians can’t even keep it right side up today?” The answer is they didn’t conform their faith to match the world. They had the truth, and they refused to water it down. They had a faith that would not compromise.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The apostle Paul said, “Be not conformed to this world.” These words cut like a sharp sword across our way of life. They have the tone of the battle call in them. They separate the weak from the strong. But they are words of inspiration, and we need to hear them today.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Thousands of uninstructed Christians are being deceived today.False teachers use high-sounding wordsthat seem like the epitome of scholarship and culture. They are intellectually clever and crafty . . .adept at beguiling thoughtless, untaught men and women.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
It is a tragedy that many of God’s people have conformed themselves to the world and its thinking, rather than being transformed by the renewing of their minds.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God’s purpose for us is that we ought to beconformed to the image of His Son. The world may exert its pressure to deform us, but we are told to “be transformed” [Romans 12:2 NIV].
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God’s desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The underlying principle of all Satan’s tactics is deception. He is a crafty and clever camouflager.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Satan’s method has often been to imitate God.Satan is still using this form of deception, and often his representatives are being disguised as ministers of righteousness.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
For Satan’s deceptions to be successful, they must be so cunningly devised that his real purpose is concealed by wiles.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes