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If there is no adventure in your life, it is as if you live no life! Adventure is the real soul of man; without it, He is a stub!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
If there is passion, let me feel its heat.I want my heart to beat fast,my breath raspy, my skin to burn.
— Susie Clevenger, Dirt Road Dreams
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
— Federico Fellini
I'm ready for another adventure now, take me far away please!Ok one more... But then you have to read to me!
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1
Whatever happened next, good or bad, it would be wonderful finding out.
— Kate Griffin, A Madness of Angels
He created us for adventure, not ease.
— Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus
See? Nothing to it.""I see all right," Carly said, her tone full of awe. She gaped at him."What?""Um...""Jesus, Carly, what is it?" He spun around to make sure there wasn't something behind him that would justify her reaction and the look of impressed astonishment on her face."You... Maybe the current was a little faster than you thought."He followed the direction of her gaze and discovered he had lost his boxers. He snickered. She giggled. They both burst into laughter, and Justin flushed a little.
— Lissa Bryan, The End of All Things
You can make it if you try. Don't give up or quit the fight. If you believe, you will see, you can do it.
— Robert Karl Hanson, Bluey and the Great Spirit Moon
Bentley mounted Silverwood, look down at his parents, and launched the powerful steed into the kingdom…a kingdom waiting for one young knight to discover the truth of a Stranger.
— Chuck Black, Sir Bentley and Holbrook Court
Cat," said Peterkin, turning his head a little on one side, "I love you.
— R.M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island
His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale. That captain was Ahab. And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw benieath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg.
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
I never want to be a passive observer of life's possibilities.
— Courtney Pierce
Don’t worry yourself. It is better that you are cautious and safe than to be accepting and sorry. Trust must be earned. I hope I have now earned yours.
— S.W. Lothian, The Golden Scarab
Thus was this expedition finished...after having, by its event, strongly evinced this important truth; that though prudence, intrepidity and perseverence united are not exempted from the blows of adverse fortune, yet in a long series of transactions they usually rise superior to its power, and in the end rarely fail of proving successful.Voyage Around The World, 1751
— George Anson
Beavers give a dam
— Victor J. Garcia
Our route had now obviously been completely blotted out and here I reckoned less of our chances of survival. We’re like a voyage ship veered off course by a ruthless storm now left with no radar or compass. Ours is a sorry tale of an unpredictable adventure. One moment it seem like we’re going home to mama’s warm embrace and tears of joy, the next moment we feel helplessly immersed in the blackness of hopelessness.” - Dami K.
— Ray Anyasi, To Live Again
Now it’s clear to me, I haven’t understood as well as I should, the cracks on the ground we stood. A blast ignited through ballot boxes by the choices of unsuspecting and innocent Nigerians has rippled across the country and has torn the curtain open to set the stage for these cracks to grow into magnified quakes now swallowing us up.” - Dami K.
— Ray Anyasi, To Live Again
There are 3 reasons for why you can't beat me. First, I'm better looking than you are. Second, your blows are too light. And third, there's nothing in the world I can't tear up.
— Akimine Kamijyo, Samurai Deeper Kyo, Volume 03
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
— Norman Vincent Peale
It is not required that we know all of the details about every stretch of the river. Indeed, were we to know, it would not be an adventure, and I wonder if there would be much point in the journey.
— Jeffrey R. Anderson
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!" said Fili. "My tub was full of ut. To smell apples everlastingly when you can scarcely move and are cold and sick with hunger is maddening. I could eat anything in the wide world now for hours on end - but not an apple!
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
Books pull you to other worlds ... let them, and enjoy the adventure.
— H.B. Bolton
There's adventure in the air. . . and cake to be eaten.
— Robert Sharenow, The Berlin Boxing Club
Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs?
— Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.
— Chuck Jones
You're on your own little quest, an there's a bit of Frodo Baggins in you, and a bit of Verne's Paganel, and just a tiny drop of Robinson Cursoe, and a smidgeon of Radishchev.
— Sergei Lukyanenko, Twilight Watch
What shall we do, what shall we do! Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves is like out of the frying pan and into the fire!
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
It's not "jalan-jalan" nor "liburan". It's just something we do naturally. Like breathing and eating. It's basically living.
— Riana Ambarsari
She was on a real, grown-up adventure, no matter how badly it should turn out.
— Carol Ryrie Brink, Caddie Woodlawn's Family
I wanted something that would address the strengths and weaknesses of humanity. I wanted a story that could move readers. My Honor Flight is that story.
— Dan McCurrigan, My Honor Flight
Stop looking for the path of least resistance and start running down the path of greatest glory to God and good to others, because that's what Jesus, the Real Man, did.
— Mark Driscoll, Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together
Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it qualifies them to furnish in their own personality a good bit of the motive power to the mad pace. They are fortunate beings. They do not need to apprehend the significance of things. They do not grow weary nor miss step, nor do they fall out of rank and sink by the wayside to be left contemplating the moving procession.Ah! that moving procession that has left me by the road-side! Its fantastic colors are more brilliant and beautiful than the sun on the undulating waters. What matter if souls and bodies are failing beneath the feet of the ever-pressing multitude! It moves with the majestic rhythm of the spheres. Its discordant clashes sweep upward in one harmonious tone that blends with the music of other worlds--to complete God's orchestra.It is greater than the stars--that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating earth and the things growing thereon. Oh! I could weep at being left by the wayside; left with the grass and the clouds and a few dumb animals. True, I feel at home in the society of these symbols of life's immutability. In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.Salve! ye dumb hearts. Let us be still and wait by the roadside.
— Kate Chopin, The Awakening
I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that’s never going to stop.
— William Goldman, The Princess Bride
For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.
— Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda
The one thing to remember about an adventure is that if it turns out the way you expect it to, it has not been an adventure at all.
— Kim Fay, The Map of Lost Memories
Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for action. Any civilisation which has the wisdom of self-preservation will allow a certain margin of freedom for the expression of this youthful mood. But the plain, unpalatable fact is that in America today that margin of freedom has been reduced to the vanishing point. Rebellious youth is not wanted here. In our environment there is nothing to challenge our young men; there is no flexibility, no colour, no possibility for adventure, no chance to shape events more generously than is permitted under the rules of highly organised looting. All our institutional life combines for the common purpose of blackjacking our youth into the acceptance of the status quo; and not acceptance of it merely, but rather its glorification.
— Harold Edmund Stearns, America And The Young Intellectual
The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.
— Paulo Coelho
This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism
‎"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."  -Oprah Winfrey-
— David DeBacco, The Sushi Chef
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum
— Walter Scott
It was cold, dark & lonely in the great cathedral-like chambers, with only coffins and corpses for company.
— Billie-Jo Williams
Neither man nor any animal can enjoy life to the full without taking some risks to life or limb.
— Philip Brown, Uncle Whiskers
Marvelous! Very exciting. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and I can't wait to read more." (About the book Dominique Ick Lessont and the Dragon Knight)
— Stephen Noce, Dominique Ick Lessont and the Dragon Knight
No–one believes they’re a hero. But that doesn’t mean they’re not heroic - Captain Spectre.
— Kevin Outlaw, The Wing Warrior
You think too much," she said."OK, no more thinking.
— Caliente
There is an inherent, humbling cruelty to learning how to run white water. In most other so-called "adrenaline" sports—skiing, surfing and rock climbing come to mind—one attains mastery, or the illusion of it, only after long apprenticeship, after enduring falls and tumbles, the fatigue of training previously unused muscles, the discipline of developing a new and initially awkward set of skills.Running white water is fundamentally different. With a little luck one is immediately able to travel long distances, often at great speeds, with only a rudimentary command of the sport's essential skills and about as much physical stamina as it takes to ride a bicycle downhill. At the beginning, at least, white-water adrenaline comes cheap.It's the river doing the work, of course, but like a teenager with a hot car, one forgets what the true power source is. Arrogance reigns. The river seems all smoke and mirrors, lots of bark (you hear it chortling away beneath you, crunching boulders), but not much bite. You think: Let's get on with it! Let's run this damn river!And then maybe the raft hits a drop in the river— say, a short, hidden waterfall. Or maybe a wave reaches up and flicks the boat on its side as easily as a horse swatting flies with its tail. Maybe you're thrown suddenly into the center of the raft, and the floor bounces back and punts you overboard. Maybe you just fall right off the side of the raft so fast you don't realize what's happening.It doesn't matter. The results are the same.The world goes dark. The river— the word hardly does justice to the churning mess enveloping you— the river tumbles you like so much laundry. It punches the air from your lungs. You're helpless. Swimming is a joke. You know for a fact that you are drowning. For the first time you understand the strength of the insouciant monster that has swallowed you.Maybe you travel a hundred feet before you surface (the current is moving that fast). And another hundred feet—just short of a truly fearsome plunge, one that will surely kill you— before you see the rescue lines. You're hauled to shore wearing a sheepish grin and a look in your eye that is equal parts confusion, respect, and raw fear.That is River Lesson Number One. Everyone suffers it. And every time you get the least bit cocky, every time you think you have finally figured out what the river is all about, you suffer it all over again.
— Joe Kane, Running the Amazon
There are storm clouds before the storm, there are the living before the dead. I need a figurehead, a banner bearer who will announce my arrival to the world.
— Kevin Outlaw, The Wing Warrior
Our great adventure ran out of petrol and stopped on this farm.
— Steven Herrick, A Place Like This
We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you.
— Jo Deurbrouck
Refusing the false securities of a stable and linear past, such an approach celebrates heterogeneous sensations and surprising associations, random connections, the ongoing construction of meaning and also admits into its orbit the mysterious agency of artifacts, space and non-humans from the past.
— Tim Edensor, Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics and Materiality
I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I never known how to give her. These pages will be our memory until she drows her last breath in my arms and I take her forever and escape at last to a place where neither heaven nor hell will ever be able to find us. 
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón
What if I don’t like adventure?Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
— Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone
If you put a smile on someones face, it was a good day.
— Harvey Stelman, Eyes of Emerald
What happened when we died? How were we to know that death wasn't as profound an adventure as life was?
— Elin Hilderbrand, Summerland
Still, I could find no good reason for not going. So I decided to go.
— Nicolette Milnes Walker
We must remember that the mortals prefer plant-life for food, for next time.”The other statue nodded in agreement and replied. “Yes. Every day we learn new things Donkor. These mortals have some funny ways don’t they?” - Quest Two: The Cursed Nile
— S.W. Lothian
- “How about flipping a coin;” she made a pretty remark and the two women turned around andlooked at her irritated.- “That's right, go ahead, jock about it. You are not the one trying to change her heart, I am, and youknow damn well how painful that can be!”Sand of Passion
— Georgia Kakalopoulou
Besides, I am staying in a luxurious hotel, not in some slum!”.Sand of Passion
— Georgia Kakalopoulou, Sands  of  Passion
You are dead, you know!” he screeched delightedly, “Come on Miss Wright! Die! Die! DIE!
— William Axtell
Wisdom Is The Principal Thing
— Kayode Infomart
The three now faced the moving wall. Trapped, like the last fries in a box with a hungry kid ready to pounce. They had no way to escape.
— S.W. Lothian, The Fallen Pharaoh
We need to encourage new believers to feed on God’s Word—it is nourishment for the soul.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The words 'believe' and 'repent' are now largely replaced by other terms such as "Give your life to Christ', 'Open your heart to Christ', 'Do it now', 'Surrender completely', 'Decide for Christ', etc., and in similar language those who profess conversion are sometimes represented as having 'given in'.
— Iain H. Murray, The Invitation System
Make it your goal to build strong foundations for your life—foundations constructed from prayer and the truths of God’s Word.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Why are our inner lives so important? One reason is because our thoughts determine our actions.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Jesus Christ said the gate that leads to destruction is wide and the way is broad, but the gate which leads to life is straight and the way narrow.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
You can’t change the past. But with God’s help you can change the future. No matter what your life has been like so far, God wants to put your feet on a new path . . . a better path . . . His path.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
[We] are not here by chance or by accident; God put us on this journey called life. We came from Him, and our greatest joy will come from giving ourselves back to Him and learning to walk with Him every day until we return to Him.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
An architect draws the plans for a new building—but it still has to be built. A composer writes a new piece of music—but it still has to be played. A chef devises a new recipe—but the ingredients still have to be cooked. In the same way, God has given us a blueprint for living—but we must know what it is and then put it into action.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Some day our journey through this life will be over and we will embark on another journey—one that will last forever.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If we don’t know who we are, we’ll never know how we ought to live.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I am still learning, for the Christian life is one of constant growth.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Do others see something of Christ in your life? Do they see a “family resemblance” to Him by the way you live?
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God’s goal isn’t just to remove the bad things in our lives; He wants to replace them with good things. His plan is to remake us from within, by His Holy Spirit.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Christian life isn’t a playground but a battlefield.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
When I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, I found the secret of life!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We need to know what the Bible teaches about right and wrong. Every day we are battered by messages—from the media, advertising, entertainment, celebrities, even our friends—with one underlying theme: “Live for yourself.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Sometimes we face “gray areas,” things that aren’t necessarily forbidden by the Bible but still may not belong in our lives.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Sin, like a deadly cancer, has invaded every area of our lives: our bodies, our minds, our emotions, our wills—everything.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Life [can] become unbalanced, and in the process God gets pushed to the fringes. Instead of staying at the center of our lives, Christ gradually gets relegated to the shadows. Don’t let this happen to you!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The self-life manifests itself in self-indulgences, such as self-love, self-will, self-seeking, self-pride . . . It takes self-denial to turn off the television and spend [time] in prayer . . . and read the Scriptures . . .the only object in life is that Christ may be honored.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Supporters of the [environmental] movement often appear to worship not the God of heaven, but the god of nature. This is a dangerous form of idolatry. Anytime animal life becomes more sacred in our view than human life, we have lost sight of our proper priorities.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Because of the brevity of life, the Bible warns that we should be prepared to meet God at all times.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Becoming a Christian takes only a single step
—  being a Christian means walking with Christ the rest of your life.
Mark my word, the day is coming when it’s going to cost to live for Jesus Christ. We are, more and more, a minority, and that’s exactly what it was like in the first century.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
What do others see when they look at your life? What do those who know you best say about you—your spouse, your children, your friends, your coworkers? Do they see inconsistencies in any area of your life—money, relationships, speech, possessions?
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I’ve known the thrill of winning a tough ball game and of winning a golf match on the last hole. But to me the biggest thrill is to win the big one—the spiritual battle of life.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The light of God’s presence in our lives is a purifying flame that will draw us near to Him.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Only by a life of obedience to the voice of the Spirit, by a daily denying of self, by full dedication to Christ, and by constant fellowship with Him are we enabled to live a godly life and an influential life in this present ungodly world.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Evangelism, instead of being a normal part of careful and regular expository preaching, with the twin effect on the consciences of the unconverted and on the growth in grace of Christians, becomes a special, dramatic activity. This leads to an orientation of church life away from Scripture, and as scriptural and non-scriptural duties become confused, the main duties which God requires of Christians and ministers are overshadowed.
— Iain H. Murray, The Invitation System
The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I could recall countless illustrations of men and women who have encountered Jesus Christ . . .Their whole lives have been transformed.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Our life is not of this world.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
No matter how advanced its progress, any generation that neglects its spiritual and moral life is going to disintegrate.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Instead of giving God His rightful place at the center of our lives, we have substituted the “god” of Self. Only Christ can change our hearts—and through us begin to change our world.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Walk into any bookstore and you’ll find hundreds of books telling you how to live. Don’t be misled, and don’t be deceived. Instead, build your life on the truth God has given us in His Word.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Though cultures differ and times change, the Word of our God stands forever as an unchanging source of answers to all of life’s problems.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Don’t waste your life on things that have no eternal value.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
A life without God is like a boat without an anchor.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
One of the most important things God wants to teach us from the Old Testament is how not to live.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God calls us to live lives of purity.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Ask God to reveal hypocrisy in your life—an inconsistency between what you profess and what you practice. Then ask God to bring you so close to Christ that you won’t have any desire to live an inconsistent, deceitful life.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Jesus demands to be Master and Lord of every part of your life. Is He Lord of your mind, of what you think, read, and believe? Of what you dream about, meditate on, and entertain yourself with? Do your eyes belong to Christ? Can [you] ask God’s blessing on it? Can [you] do this to the glory of God?
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I believe this is one of the tests of the Spirit-filled life. Is Christ becoming more and more evident in my life? Are people seeing more of Him, and less of me?
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
A tame horse contributes much more to life than a wild one. Energy out of control is dangerous
—  energy under control is powerful.
The Bible has much to say about the brevity of life and the necessity of preparing for eternity. I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Our interests are centered in ourselves. We are preoccupied with material things. Our supreme god is technology; our goddess is sex. Most of us are more interested in getting to the moon than in getting to heaven, more concerned about conquering space than about conquering ourselves. We are more dedicated to material security than to inner purity. We give much more thought to what we wear, what we eat, what we drink, and what we can do to relax than we give to what we are. This preoccupation with peripheral things applies to every area of our lives.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
If anything has been accomplished through my life, it has been solely God’s doing, not mine, and He—not I—must get the credit.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We must learn to live triumphantly amid the traumas and pressures we face daily.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
How often do you cave in to the pressures of the crowd, seeking the approval of others instead of the approval of God? We all like to be liked—but that can be a very dangerous thing. Make it your goal to live for Christ and be faithful to Him, regardless of what the crowd demands.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Our natural desire is to be doing something
—  but there are times in our lives when it is wiser to wait and just be still.
As life hits us head-on we can respond with resentment, resignation, acceptance, or welcome. We are the living examples of our responses.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Because God is the giver and source of our life, He has a legitimate claim upon our lives.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We are to be catch basins for the fullness of God. Like a freshly running spring, we are to overflow and let our lives touch the lives of those around us.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Life is a glorious opportunity if it is used to condition us for eternity.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Bible teaches that life does not end at the cemetery. There is a future life.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Don’t be a prude, or snobbish, but let your life “glow” for Christ. We are lamps shining in the darkness.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
God’s Word is not a book of human ideas . . . it is given to us by [God] to teach us how to live.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Life is sacred and given to us by God; for that reason we must never condone the deliberate, unnatural taking of life.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Sometimes life touches one person with a bouquet and another with a thorn bush, But the first may find a wasp in the flowers, and the second may discover roses among the thorns.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Idolatrous beliefs have eroded the foundations of truth. Whether ancient or modern, all have posed alternatives to the biblical way of approaching God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Men and women may devise plans to satisfy their inner longings, but in the midst of all the “religions” of the world, God’s way is available in the Bible for all who will come to Him on His terms.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Today . . . when Satan worship is increasing at an alarming rate, we had better be aware of him, his origin, his aims, his abilities, and his limitations.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Many evidences and arguments suggest God’s existence, yet the plain truth is that God cannot be proved by intellectual arguments alone. If the human mind could fully prove God, He would be no greater than the mind that proves Him!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
From the ghetto to the mansion, from community leader to prisoner on death row, man wonders if there is a God. And if there is, what is He like? Whatever period of history we study, whatever culture we examine, if we look back in time we see all peoples, primitive or modern, acknowledging some kind of deity. Some people give up the pursuit of God in frustration, calling themselves “atheists” or “agnostics,” professing to be irreligious.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Bible differentiates clearly between true faith and mere religiosity.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Many Christian leaders are willing to give up some of the teachings of the Bible in order to harmonize Christianity with the other religions.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Jesus tells us not to be misled by the voices of strangers. There are so many strange voices being heard in the religious world of our day. We must compare what they say with the Word of God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Satan has slaughtered, plundered, and bludgeoned his way through the centuries, manifesting himself in every false ideology, sect, and cult.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We want to be relevant . . . However, the more relevant we become to a sin-dominated world, the more irrelevant we actually are to God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
There is a strong movement, especially in Protestantism, to recast the Christian message in order to make it acceptable to modern man.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
All false religions cut away parts of God’s revelation, add ideas of their own, and come out with various viewpoints that differ from God’s revelation in the Bible.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We read every day about the rich, the famous, the talented who are disillusioned. Many of them are turning to the occult, or Transcendental Meditation, or Eastern religions. Some are turning to crime. The questions they thought were answered are left dangling: What is man? Where did he come from? What is his purpose on this planet? Where is he going? Is there a God who cares? If there is a God, has He revealed Himself to man?
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
A false religion is like the imitation of high fashion. The very presence of counterfeits proves the existence of the real. There would be no imitations without a genuine product. God’s original design has always had imitators and counterfeits!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
In this age of humanism, man is seduced by society with the lie that he can become his own god . . . the New Age movement is polluted with self and it will never bow before God—at least not until Christ returns.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Modern Western culture has become a mixture of paganism and Christianity. We are a blend of both. We talk of God, but we often act as though we are atheists.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
New Agers are terrified of their own mortality, and they want to believe that somehow the soul will survive. Of course it will, but not as they imagine.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
There are many religions in the world, and they have developed because various people have had various ideas about God. Christianity makes a unique claim . . . we can know God because He came to us in human form in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Man has naturally and universally a capacity for religion—and not only a capacity, for the vast majority of the human race practices or professes some form of religion.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I am convinced that hundreds of religious leaders throughout the world today are servants not of God, but of the Antichrist. They are wolves in sheep’s clothing; they are tares instead of wheat.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Every journey has a starting point . . . and it has an end. God meant for [life] to be filled with joy and purpose. He invites us to . . . take the rest of our journey with Him.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
A century ago man’s chief concern was his spiritual life
—  today his chief concern is with his physical and temporal affairs.
Nothing could be more wrong than the old cliché that says any religion will do just as long as one is sincere. In no other area of life is there so much error, deception, and charlatanism as in religion.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The one who made the Ford knew how to make it run. God made you and me, and He alone knows how to run your life and mine. We could make a complete wreck of our lives without Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Sometimes we get a little tired of the burdens of life, but it is exhilarating to know that Jesus Christ will meet us at the end of life’s journey.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
End your journey well. Don’t waste your life, and don’t be satisfied with anything less than God’s plan.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Many a life has come forth from the furnace of affliction more beautiful and more useful than before.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
You can have religion but not know Christ. It’s having Christ that counts.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Christianity is not a white man’s religion and don’t let anybody ever tell you that it’s white or black. Christ belongs to all people
—  he belongs to the whole world.
Religion,” [some] argue, “may be all right for certain emotional people, but you can’t beat a man who believes in himself.” But this self-confident generation has produced more alcoholics, more dope addicts, more criminals, more wars, more broken homes, more assaults, more embezzlements, more murders, and more suicides than any other generation that ever lived. It is time for all of us to take stock of our failures, blunders, and costly mistakes. It is about time that we put less confidence in ourselves and more trust and faith in God.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
People of the West have various forms of democracy based on a belief in God as well as on a general acceptance of moral law. However, in practice we are beginning to resemble the Marxists, who have little respect for moral law or religion.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Hundreds of philosophies and scores of religions have been invented to circumvent the Word of God. Modern philosophers and psychologists are still trying to make it appear that there is some way out other than the path of Jesus.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Astrology can never give you the answers to life’s deepest questions—especially where you will spend eternity. Commit your life to Christ. It will give you joyous confidence that your future is securely in His hands—tomorrow and forever.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Nothing seems to satisfy. Not politics, not education, not material goods. Some who refuse to turn their hearts toward God have created the New Age movement, with all of its aberrations. This is actually not new but only the latest attempt by man to place something other than Christ inside himself in a futile attempt to satisfy spiritual longings.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
While the West had lulled itself to sleep with the comforting doctrine of man’s achievements, a great revolution had been in progress in Russia. The hammer pounded and the sickle gleaned until a new social order called Communism emerged as one of the most powerful ideologies of all time. It challenged every concept man had ever held. It threatened the life of the whole world. It became the greatest challenge Christianity had faced in 2,000 years. It was a fanatic religion that asked questions and demanded answers.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Students today want to know about the devil, about witchcraft, about the occult. Many people do not know they are turning to Satan. They are being deluded.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Religion can be anything! But true Christianity is God coming to man in a personal relationship.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We see that humanism has become for many a polite name for a vocal, aggressive, influential crusade against religion in the name of social and moral advance. There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan’s first temptation of Adam and Eve: “Ye shall be as gods” [Genesis 3:5 KJV].
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Man suppresses the truth, mixes it with error, and develops the religions of the world.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Only God knows the future and that we are to look to Him—not to the stars or the tea leaves or the lines on the palms of our hands—for our confidence in the future.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Some Christian leaders . . . are willing to give up some of the teachings of the Bible in order to harmonize Christianity with the other religions.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Something distinguishes Christianity from all the religions of the world. Not only does it carry the truth of the redemption, by the death of our Savior for our sins on the cross, but it carries the fact that Christ rose again.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
There are many bibles of different religions; there is the Mohammedan Koran, the Buddhist Canon of Sacred Scripture, the Zoroastrian Zend-Avesta, and the Brahman Veda . . . they all begin with some flashes of true light, and end in utter darkness. Even the most casual observer soon discovers that the Bible is radically different. It is the only Book that offers redemption to us and points the way out of our dilemma.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I never try to defend religion. Religion has spawned wars. Many so-called religious people have been characterized by prejudice, pride, and bickering . . . I would call you to a simple faith in Jesus, who said, “Love your neighbor as yourself.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Christianity is being compared with other religions as never before. Some so-called Christian leaders even advocate the working out of a system of morals, ethics, and religion that would bring together all the religions of the world. It cannot be done. Jesus Christ is unique.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
In order to compete with God for the dominion of the world, Satan, whom Christ called “the prince of this world,” was forced to go into the “religion” business.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We live in an upside-down world, in which people hate what they should love and love what they should hate.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We’re heading for a world showdown, a worldwide confrontation. If we think we can solve our problems without God, then we’re living in a fool’s paradise.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We have a mandate to speak out against “the sin that so easily entangles” [Hebrews 12:1 NIV]; for though we are not of the world, we are still in it.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The world I once knew as a boy has changed dramatically . . . I don’t even recognize the world we live in today.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The world judges the Christian by his life, not by his belief.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
There is only one passion that can help us control the many other passions that plague us; that is the passion to know and obey God. When we get out of touch with Christ, we begin touching the things of the world, trying to fill the void that human flesh craves.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The world’s sewage system threatens to contaminate the stream of Christian thought. Satan will contest every hour you spend in Bible reading or prayer.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Our chaotic, confused world has no greater need than to hear the Gospel truth.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
There are no new sins—only new sinners. There are no new crimes—only new criminals, No new evils—only new evildoers. No new pleasures—only new pleasure seekers. We must distinguish between wholesome, God-ordained pleasure and sinful, worldly pleasure.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The world by its advertisements, its conversation, and its philosophy is engaged in a gigantic brainwashing task . . . The Christian is beset by secular and worldly propaganda.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The world may argue against a creed, but it cannot argue against changed lives.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
While we’re looking up to see the rainbow—God’s promises—we’re ignoring floodwaters rising. While we’re looking down to see how close we can get to the edge of the world without being trapped by Satan, we’re taking our eyes off of Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
How do we counter the trend of worldliness? We must saturate our minds, hearts, and souls with God’s Word. The Bible says, “Train yourself to be godly” (1 Timothy 4:7).
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
In the struggle for righteousness, there is nothing more helpful than being passionately in tune with Christ through His Spirit and being passionately committed to doing His will. It has been said that in order to tune in to God’s voice, we must tune out this world’s noise.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
We are never to do anything of which we are not perfectly clear and certain. If you have a doubt about that particular thing that is bothering you, as to whether it is worldly or not, the best policy is “don’t do it.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
I have heard the hollow, shallow laughter of the world. I have heard the genuine laughter of the beaming young Christian. I know there is a difference.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
When you are unsure whether or not something is wrong, ask yourself these questions: Does this glorify God? Can I offer a prayer of thanksgiving for it? Does it draw me closer to Christ, or does it make me preoccupied with this world? Will it harm my health or hurt me in some other way? Will it cause someone else to stumble spiritually or morally? I have never forgotten what a wise Christian said to me many years ago: “When in doubt—don’t!
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
As for the world system of evil, we are to be separated from it. This then is our problem: to associate with and love those who are involved in the world without being contaminated, influenced, or swayed by them. This distinction can be achieved only by a close walk with Christ, by constant prayer, and by seeking the Holy Spirit’s leadership every hour of the day. We are in the world, but the world is not to be in us.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Any history of the political events of our time which does not also include a discussion of the Bible, the impact of Christianity, and the role of faith in changing the hearts and minds of people all over the world is an incomplete and invalid study. For what is taking place in the world today is not just a protest, but a revolution in the sphere of the human heart.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Any Christian whose interest is directed toward himself is worldly.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
When we come to Christ, God calls us out of this world’s sin and confusion. But then He sends us back into the world—not to share any longer in its sin and spiritual darkness, but to bear witness to the light of Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Jesus told His disciples that the “world,” meaning the world system, the political and social order organized apart from God, will despise Christians.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
It is easy for Christians to allow themselves to be squeezed into the world’s mold . . . When nonbelievers see nothing different in the lifestyle of believers, they wonder if our profession of faith is sincere.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Those who believe [in Christ] are expected to be different from the world . . . they are members of a new society.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage. He offered us, not an excursion, but an execution. Our Savior said that we would have to be ready to die to self, sin, and the world.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Have you fallen into the world’s trap, following its self-indulgent goals and driven by its self-centered motives? It can happen without you even being aware of it. Make sure Christ is first in your life, and make it your goal to live according to His Word.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Those who have actually experienced daily fellowship with Christ know that it surpasses all worldly activities.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
There are so many professing Christians who are walking hand in hand with the world that you cannot tell the difference between the Christian and the unbeliever. This should never be.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
As Christians, we are not to get our worlds mixed up . . . We are not to mingle with the world, but we are to witness to the world.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Christian should stand out like a sparkling diamond against a rough background. He should be more wholesome than anyone else. He should be poised, cultured, courteous, gracious, but firm in the things that he does and does not do. He should laugh and be radiant, but he should refuse to allow the world to pull him down to its level.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Do not expect me to fall in with the evil customs and ways of the world. I am in Rome, but I will not do as Rome does. I am an alien, a stranger, and a foreigner. My citizenship is in heaven.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
It is only the consecrated, Spirit-filled Christian who can have victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil. It is the Holy Spirit who will do the fighting for you.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
When the Christian brings the standards of Jesus Christ to bear upon life in a material and secular world, it is often resented. Because the moral and spiritual demands of Jesus Christ are so high, they often set the Christian “apart.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Worldliness is actually a spirit, an atmosphere, an influence permeating the whole of life and human society, and it needs to be guarded against constantly and strenuously.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
In the world in which we live, we give most attention to satisfying the appetites of the body and practically none to the soul . . . We become fat physically and materially, while spiritually we are lean, weak, and anemic.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Too many people today want a brotherly worldin which they can remain unbrotherly
—  a decent world in which they can live indecently. Too many individuals want economic security without spiritual security.
Our world needs to be touched by Christians who are Spirit-filled, Spirit-led, and Spirit-empowered.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The entire world is in turmoil. We are living in a time of enormous conflict and cultural transformation. We have been stunned by shockwaves of change in nation after nation, all around the globe.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Too many people want to have one foot in the world and one foot in the kingdom of God, and it is like straddling a fence. You are not happy either way. Declare yourself for Christ.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
Worldliness doesn’t fall like an avalanche upon a person and sweep him or her away. It is the steady drip, drip, drip of the water that wears away the stone. The world is exerting a steady pressure on us every day. Most of us would go down under it, if it weren’t for the Holy Spirit who lives inside us, and holds us up, and keeps us.
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes
The Bible teaches that we are to live in this world, but we are not to partake of the evils of the world. We are to be separated from the world of evil. When I face something in the world, I ask: “Does it violate any principle of Scripture? Does it take the keen edge off my Christian life? Can I ask God’s blessing on it? Will it be a stumbling block to others? Would I like to be there, or reading that, or be watching that, if Christ should return at that time?
— Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes