Billy Graham Quotes

#1. There are too many professed Christians who never get "wrought up" about anything; they never get indignant with injustice, with corruption in high places, or with the godless traffics which barter away the souls and bodies of people.

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#2. Christianity is a Gospel of crisis. It proclaims unmistakably that this world's days are numbered.

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#3. 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.

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#4. I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms.

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#5. I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

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#6. It is strange that the world accepts enthusiasm in every realm but the spiritual.

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#7. Don't apologize for who you are and what you've done in the past. Be who you are and do what you do.

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#8. Make it your goal to build strong foundations for your life - foundations constructed from prayer and the truths of God's Word.

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#9. 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.

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#10. We must be constantly aware that Satan can take any human effort and twist it to serve his own purposes.

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#11. The Bible sees greed as a form of idolatry, because a greedy person worships things instead of God. Greed and envy have their roots in selfishness.

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#12. Christ never told his disciples that they would get an Academy Award for their performances, but He did tell them to expect to have troubles.

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#13. Though the cross repels, it also attracts. It possesses a magnetic quality.

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#14. Some evangelists spend too much time thinking and even planning about how to achieve visible results. This is an easy trap to fall into.

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#15. Only Christ can meet the deepest needs of our world and our hearts. Christ alone can bring lasting peace - peace with God, peace among men and nations, and peace within our hearts. He transcends the political and social boundaries of our world.

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#16. God has revealed Himself in the Book called the Bible.

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#17. It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.

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#18. When Christ's love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run.

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#19. Worldliness is an inner attitude that puts self at the center of life instead of God.

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#20. God is not blind. He knows about you and your problems. He knows of those who are suffering ... and His love for His children will never leave in times of trouble.

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#21. God is not bound by a body, yet He is a Person. He feels, He thinks, He loves, He forgives, He sympathizes with the problems and sorrows that we face.

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#22. 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.

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#23. For me, the best time to pray is the very moment a tense situation or an unspiritual attitude overtakes me. God the Holy Spirit is always there, ready to help me gain victory in the spiritual battles I face-big or small.

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#24. Christianity has its roots in the deep, firm soil of history. Jesus' incarnation - God invading human history with His presence in the form of man - is on the record. Every time you write the date, you attest to the fact that God entered human history.

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#25. I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.

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#26. One with God is a majority.

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#27. Christianity is not an accretion, it is not something added. It is a new total outlook which is satisfied with nothing less than penetration to the furthest corners of the mind and the understanding.

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#28. Joy is produced in our hearts when we know that God loves us, when we have a close relationship with Him through reading His Word, praying, and desiring to honor Him in all that we do, and by serving others.

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#29. Confrontation is the special business of young people. They confront their parents, peers, society, law enforcement officers, and themselves, but primarily they confront God.

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#30. Satan perverts everything good by mimicking and mocking the real thing.

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#31. Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.

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#32. If you are not careful you will find yourself actually in the employ of the devil. He is powerful, slick, crafty, wily, and subtle.

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#33. There are those who have made their fortunes on other people's misfortune. The Bible never promised that life would be fair.

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#34. [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.

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#35. It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.

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#36. We must learn to let the Word of God feed us and strengthen us in our faith in God its author, Christ its message, and the Holy Spirit its teacher.

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#37. Science, they say, can tap the brain of man and alter his desires. But the Bible, which has withstood the ravages of time ... says that we are possessed of a sinful, fallen nature which wars against us.

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#38. The Beatles are a passing phase, symptoms of the confusion about us.

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#39. The most remarkable thing about suffering is that God can use it for our good.

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#40. 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.

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#41. Too many times we are concerned with how much, instead of how little, like this [world] we can become.

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#42. Memorizing the Bible is most important. "Thinking God's thoughts" will take the place of worried, anxious concerns.

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#43. [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.

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#44. The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.

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#45. We need to fortify ourselves with the Word of God.

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#46. Jesus used the carefree attitude of the birds to underscore the fact that worrying is unnatural. I am learning in my own life, day by day, to keep my mind centered on Christ.

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#47. It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men believed it ... The fact always precedes the faith.

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#48. Believe that Christ died for you. He suffered for you. He won the battle over sin for you. He rose from the grave and was victorious over death so that you can live forever.

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#49. I have never targeted Muslims. I have never targeted Jews. I believe that we should declare the fact that God loves you, God's willing to forgive you, God can change you, and Christ and his kingdom is open to anybody who repents and by faith receives him as lord and savior.

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#50. May our prayers today - and every day - be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being!

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#51. Worship in the truest sense takes place only when our full attention is on God - on His glory, power, majesty, love and compassion.

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#52. The world thinks peace would come if everyone made a lot of money, but people haven't found peace in possessions. They have thought the world would have peace if all arms were destroyed. Yet Cain killed Abel without a handgun. It is man's heart that is the problem.

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#53. World travel and getting to know clergy of all denominations has helped mold me into an ecumenical being. We're separated by theology and, in some instances, culture and race, but all that means nothing to me any more.

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#54. The Bible teaches that whether we are saved or lost, there is conscious and everlasting existence of the soul and personality.

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#55. For us all, the world is disorderly and dangerous; ungoverned, and apparently ungovernable. The questions arise: Who will restore order? Who can counter the danger of nuclear holocaust? Who alone can govern the world? The only answer is Jesus Christ!

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#56. The Holy Spirit not only convicts of sin but also convinces men that Jesus is the righteousness of God. He shows sinners that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.

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#57. True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency. Make it a habit, and when the need arises you will be in practice.

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#58. Chose you this day whom, not tomorrow, whom you'll serve?

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#59. Evil is real - but so is God's power and love.

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#60. [As a young man] I sought thrills! I found them in Christ. I looked for something that would bring perfect joy! I found it in Christ. I looked for something that would bring pleasure and that would satisfy the deepest longing of my heart! I found it in Christ. And my life has never been the same.

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#61. What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession.

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#62. While those around you are filling their minds with the bad news about man in their daily papers, steep yourself in the good news about God in His precious Word!

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#63. There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim

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#64. I look upon it as a lost day when I have not had a good time over the Word of God.

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#65. 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.

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#66. We glorify Christ when we live for God - trusting, loving, and obeying Him.

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#67. Someday all of us will give account of the way we have used the gifts God has given. The person to whom much has been given will find much required of him.

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#68. I wept more in Korea than in all the past several years put together. These experiences changed my life. I could never be quite the same again ... I felt sadder, older. I felt as though I had gone in a boy and come out a man.

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#69. If people paid more attention to death, eternity, and judgment, there would be more holy living on earth.

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#70. I like the bumper sticker that reads, "Christians aren't perfect, just forgiven." But that does not give us license to live below God's standard.

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#71. A loving God ordained monogamous marriage and the sanctity of what we call the traditional family.

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#72. Science is learning to control everything but man.

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#73. The greatest need in the world today is for fully committed Christians.

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#74. Angels belong to a uniquely different dimension of creation which we, limited to the natural order, can scarcely comprehend.

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#75. Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.

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#76. To drive to extinction something He has created is wrong. He has a purpose for everything ... We Christians have a responsibility to take the lead in caring for the earth.

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#77. Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!

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#78. We have become a nation of biblical illiterates.

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#79. The Bible teaches that you are an immortal soul. Your soul is eternal and will live forever ... the real you - the part of you that thinks, feels, dreams, aspires; the ego, the personality - will never die ... your soul will live forever in one of two places - heaven or hell.

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#80. Sinful pleasure can ruin our appetite for the things of God.

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#81. Too many husbands and wives enter into marriage with the idea that their spouse exists for one purpose: to make them happy.

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#82. When our faith becomes nothing more than a series of rules and regulations, joy flees and our love for Christ grows cold.

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#83. Our personalities, our intelligence, and our capabilities are gifts from [God's] own bountiful hand. If we divert their use for our own profit, we become guilty of selfishness.

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#84. You choose sin. You practice sin.

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#85. The Bible lists in Hebrews 11 the heroes of the faith ... who were tortured, imprisoned, stoned, torn apart, and killed by the sword. They didn't wear designer jeans but went about in animal skins, destitute and tormented.

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#86. Living for Christ is a day-to-day going on with Him. It is a continuous dependence upon the Spirit of God. It is believing in His faithfulness.

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#87. I learned the importance of the Bible and came to believe with all my heart in its full inspiration. It became a sword in my hand to break open the hearts of men, to direct them to the Lord Jesus Christ.

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#88. Some of the most miserable people I have ever met have been people who are very popular with the public, but down inside are empty and miserable.

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#89. I believe in angels because the Bible says there are angels; and I believe the Bible to be the true Word of God.

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#90. To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.

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#91. It is strange that men will prepare for everything except death. We prepare for education. We prepare for business. We prepare for our careers. We prepare for marriage. We prepare for old age. We prepare for everything except the moment we are to die.

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#92. The Scripture warns about evil communications that corrupt good manners. Off-color jokes and dirty stories have no place in the Christian life. Thousands of people are engaging in immorality by the way they talk. Keep your talk pure. Ask God to purify your tongue.

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#93. Some people say they will follow their conscience..many of us have dead consciences. Your conscience is no longer a safe guide. You've harden it, you've deaden it.

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#94. May the Lord bless you real good.

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#95. [The Bible] warns us about "the little foxes, that spoil the vines" [Song of Solomon 2:15 KJV]. This is a picture of the way "little" sins
can destroy our fruitfulness for the Lord.

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#96. Those are decisions only the Lord will make. I believe the love of God is absolute. He said he gave his son for the whole world, and I think he loves everybody regardless of what label they have.

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#97. We must understand what the word believe implies. It means "commit" and "surrender.

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#98. Ask God to help you see the world the way He sees it.

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#99. You cannot afford to be too busy to pray.

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#100. I don't have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

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