Graham's Quotes

#1. Mountain climbing was one of Mother's favorite occupations, but she never succeeded in inculcating this passion in any of us.

Katharine Graham

#2. Tell me why the gardener trims and prunes his rosebushes, sometimes cutting away productive branches, and I will tell you why God's people are afflicted. God's hand never slips.

Billy Graham

#3. In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain ... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk ...

Graham Sutherland

#4. Having that kind of endorsement and having Paul Graham's readership coming to your site and contributing to it and building the foundation of the community was just a really invaluable way to start Reddit.

Alexis Ohanian

#5. Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself.

Paul Graham

#6. Sometimes it's blood memory ... not the blood your mother and father gave you ... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

Martha Graham

#7. Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.

Graham Swift

#8. Prayer is the most powerful weapon we have in our spiritual arsenal to stand against the world's greatest enemy, the one who presents himself as an angel of light [2 Corinthians 11:14].

Billy Graham

#9. It was God's love which knew that men were incapable of obeying His law, and it was His love which promised a Redeemer, a Savior, who would save His people from their sins.

Billy Graham

#10. Can we overcome our anger, instead of constantly being overcome by it? Yes - with God's help. Peter's anger was channeled into boldness for Christ. Paul's anger against Christians was replaced with a burning passion to spread the Gospel. Is this your goal?

Billy Graham

#11. Every time I see my brother, I just praise God for God's grace in his life. Because if God can change Franklin from a prodigal into a man of God, he can do it for anybody.

Anne Graham Lotz

#12. You can think a thing over many times and still have no idea how you'll answer the question, if ever it's asked.

Laurie Graham

#13. He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's sister, and 'decent' girls were never squiffy.

Graham Greene

#14. When suffering comes, learn to trust each day into God's hands ... let your lips be filled with prayer and praise.

Billy Graham

#15. 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

#16. I'm going to be pulling my pants up all day, and I'm just going to have a terrible day. Because if your clothes don't fit, just like bras or anything, it's not a good day.

Ashley Graham

#17. Can you see God? You haven't seen him? I've never seen the wind.
I see the effects of the wind, but I've never seen the wind. There's a mystery to it.

Billy Graham

#18. Everybody's got their phone up and everybody's taking recordings and posting it on YouTube and whatever and sending it to you, and it gets shown around the world.

Franklin Graham

#19. If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

William Graham Sumner

#20. I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! ... I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk.

Alexander Graham Bell

#21. Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not love, I don't like it!

Lauren Graham

#22. 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

#23. What does repentance mean? It means to change - to change your mind, change the way that you're living - and to determine that with God's help you will live for Christ.

Billy Graham

#24. My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time.

Graham Moore

#25. Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love
it's being unhappy together.

Graham Greene

#26. They think my mother's ashes are marijuana.

Graham Greene

#27. I believe one reason that God allows poverty and suffering is so that His followers may demonstrate Christ's love, mercy, and comfort to [others].

Billy Graham

#28. It is a mistake to restrict oneself in one's pleasures,' Ross said. 'One should never risk being thought a Puritan.

Winston Graham

#29. A century ago man's chief concern was his spiritual life; today his chief concern is with his physical and temporal affairs.

Billy Graham

#30. Every generation has found [the Bible's] message indispensable, and its influence on individuals and society over the centuries has been enormous.

Billy Graham

#31. The Bible teaches that Satan is the author of sin. Sin is the reason we have afflictions, including death. All of our problems and our suffering are a result of man's rebellion
against God. But God has provided a rescue in His Son.

Billy Graham

#32. There is no room for God's Word in our culture, where our children are without reverence for God or faith in the Bible. There is no room for our Lord's creed of purity and self-denial when the media sends forth a constant barrage of profanity and indecency and materialism.

Billy Graham

#33. God's laws for the spiritual world are found in the Bible. Whatever else there may be that tells us of God, it is more clearly told in the Bible.

Billy Graham

#34. Prayer and Bible study are inseparably linked. Effective prayer is born out of the prompting of God's Spirit as we read His Word.

Billy Graham

#35. As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.

Lauren Graham

#36. Learn to walk in God's perception of who you are, because yours is not good enough.

Graham Cooke

#37. It's in their modest home. You go into their kitchen and serve yourself. It's all homemade. It's authentic Italian.

Graham Spanier

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

Billy Graham

#39. Render unto meditation the things that are meditation's, and unto medication the things that are medication's.

Barry Graham

#40. I believe America has gone a long way down the wrong road. If we ever needed God's help, it is now.

Billy Graham

#41. Of all the conventions of mystery stories, the one that's impossible to break is the solution at the end.

Graham Moore

#42. You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

Billy Graham

#43. Anger flees when the Spirit's fruit fills our hearts.

Billy Graham

#44. To a sinner, a righteous person is an oddity and an abnormality. A Christian's goodness is a rebuke to the wicked; his being right-side up is a reflection upon the worldling's inverted position.

Billy Graham

#45. There's something wrong when hedge fund managers pay lower tax rates than nurses or the truckers

Lindsey Graham

#46. Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.

Graham Greene

#47. One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there ...

Gwethalyn Graham

#48. There are two great tragedies in life: one is to fail to achieve one's grandest ambitions, and the other one is to succeed.

Graham T. Allison

#49. When we do good - even when others are doing wrong - God will bless us.

Billy Graham

#50. As I live and breath. The master is returned from parts unknown."
"Hi, Madame," Max said, planting a kiss on the woman's cheek.

Heather Graham

#51. The Bible promises us that Jesus will return to take His faithful followers with Him to live with Him in His glorious presence forever. Everyone else will be left behind to face God's wrath and judgment. If Jesus were to return today, do you know if He would take you with Him to heaven?.

Billy Graham

#52. All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate of production,' for whom it's a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year.

Graham Swift

#53. 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

#54. There's an undeniable thrill in seeing what's most current in our lives offered back to us in fictional guise, but it soon dates and it's never enough.

Graham Swift

#55. You s**ked s**t."
"Okay, well, what should I do differently next time?"
"Not s**k s**t.

D.R. Graham

#56. Paranoid can also be defined as "carefully smart"! Almost every episode of SVU is based on a true story; I'd watched my fill until they moronically cut Detective Stabler's fine-ass character.

Angela Graham

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

Billy Graham

#58. I'm not actually a mom in real life, so it's fun to pretend to be one. I like to approach things the same in art as in life. You can choose to look on the positive side and enjoy whatever roles you're given. You can find the silver lining in anything.

Heather Graham

#59. You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

Lauren Graham

#60. A man can be 43, and people will say, 'Oh, he's a cool bachelor, and he just hasn't settled down,' but with a woman, it's, 'Oh, she must have really wanted to get married, but she didn't.' I honestly think that attitude is a little bit sexist.

Heather Graham

#61. Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.

Graham Coxon

#62. I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.

Kat Graham

#63. If it was possible for me to adopt, I probably would, but no one's going to let me adopt.

Graham Norton

#64. Many people who have lost jobs ... find that this was God's way of redirecting their lives.

Billy Graham

#65. What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Lindsey Graham

#66. Down through the ages man's heart has remained unchanged. Whatever the color of his skin, whatever his cultural or ethnic background, he needs the Gospel of Christ.

Billy Graham

#67. Hannibal Lecter stole Leatherface's mask and ported the slasher conventions into the thriller for the early '90s.

Stephen Graham Jones

#68. app, 'Functional Ear Trainer' which isn't like any other ear trainer in the way that it teaches you relative pitch in the context of cadences instead of just guessing random intervals. Check out the creator's website here. And

Graham Tippett

#69. There's no such thing as gratitude in politics.

Graham Greene

#70. Graham glanced up at the sky, which was pale and pocked with birds, the whole thing like a negative of yesterday's fireworks display.

Jennifer E. Smith

#71. You can use your tongue to slander, to gripe, to scold, to nag, and to quarrel; or you can bring it under the control of God's Spirit and make it an instrument of blessing and praise.

Billy Graham

#72. It [moviemaking] is all a relationship business. It's a personal business. It's all personal relationships, if you're lucky enough to build on one to the other.

Graham King

#73. It's the clothes that influence the music I'm going to play.

Graham Coxon

#74. God - the Bible's Author - loves you and wants you to be His child through faith in Jesus Christ.

Billy Graham

#75. When I die, tell others that I've gone to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - that's where I am.

Billy Graham

#76. Jesus Christ opened heaven's door for us by His death on the cross.

Billy Graham

#77. Just as millions of angels participated in the dazzling show when the morning stars sang together at creation, so will the innumerable hosts of heaven help bring to pass God's prophetic declarations throughout time and into eternity.

Billy Graham

#78. Wonderful," Rodney said again. "I wonder how many more of our former allies are going to have been Culled like this?" "That's what I like about you, McKay," Sheppard said. "You're an optimist.

Jo Graham

#79. The greatest barrier to knowing God's will is simply that we want to run our own lives. Our problem is that a battle is going on in our hearts - a battle between our wills and God's will.

Billy Graham

#80. Oh, God, I know I am a sinner. I am sorry for my sins, and I want to turn from them. I trust Christ alone as my Savior, and I confess Him as my Lord. From this moment on, I want to serve Him and follow Him in the fellowship of His church. In Christ's name, I pray. Amen.

Billy Graham

#81. Many people have come to Christ as a result of my participation in presenting the Gospel to them. It's all the work of the Holy Spirit.

Billy Graham

#82. The American Dream became America's god; wealth and abundance have become the measure of America's success. But - as recent events have shown - we have been living an illusion.

Billy Graham

#83. It is not easy to shut out the world, set aside a few minutes by yourself, and spend time in God's Word and prayer. But it is essential if we are to grow in our relationship with God and be strengthened for the battles ahead. Don't delay. Begin now to spend time alone with God every day.

Billy Graham

#84. Conscious access to memory is a unique trait of living things, but memory itself is not. It's encoded in the minute vibrations between elementary particles. Our entire universe is built of information given shape. Part of that is its history. Its memory.

M.R. Graham

#85. When Bauhaus designers adopted Sullivan's "form follows function," what they meant was,
form should follow function. And if function is hard enough, form is forced to follow it,
because there is no effort to spare for error.
Wild animals are beautiful because they have hard lives.

Paul Graham

#86. It was a superstition among them that a lover who smoked would always return, even from France. A man's sexual capacity might be injured by smoking, but they would always prefer a faithful to a potent lover.

Graham Greene

#87. The use of language around drugs is really important. So we find that it's increasingly difficult in our society to find the word "drug" not connected to the word "abuse." The notion of a responsible use of drugs is written out in the language of our culture.

Graham Hancock

#88. It is the absence of the knowledge of God and man's refusal to obey Him that lie at the root of every problem which besets us.

Billy Graham

#89. Heavens no, Mrs. Miller. It's war, and I have managed to send men into battle. But I'm a merciful commander - I wouldn't dream of sending them in after you." "Then I'm staying." "Maybe not. I didn't say that I wouldn't come in after you myself.

Heather Graham

#90. I think of my parents as a single unit, and it's interesting because they shared so much, and they were totally opposite. My mother, a Martha Graham dancer, had a classical background; my father had a back-porch background.

Arlo Guthrie

#91. There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.

Heather Graham

#92. 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

#93. The investment world nevertheless has enough liars, cheaters, and thieves to keep Satan's check-in clerks frantically busy for decades to come.

Benjamin Graham

#94. What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

Billy Graham

#95. He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.

Graham Greene

#96. I think it's important to have your own individual style and sense of self. It's kind of what I do.

Kat Graham

#97. They killed him because he was too innocent to live. He was young and ignorant and silly and he got involved. He had no more of a notion than any of you what the whole affair's about ...

Graham Greene

#98. The Bible is the textbook of revelation.
In God's great classroom there are three textbooks - one called nature, one called conscience, and one named Scripture. In the written textbook of revelation - the Bible - God speaks through words.

Billy Graham

#99. Our little things are all big to God's love; our big things are all small to His power.

Billy Graham

#100. You and I, God's ambassadors, are called to sound the warning, to call sinners to repentance, to point the way to peace with God and the hope that is in Christ.

Billy Graham