Ruth Graham Quotes

#1. In many ways we were what Billy and Ruth Graham called 'happily incompatible'.

Gayle Roper

#2. Down through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed

Ruth Bell Graham

#3. Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief; Give me but You; it is enough just so.

Ruth Graham

#4. The city is not changing anything, ... increases in the cost of natural gas will be passed through to the customer.

Ruth Graham

#5. My wife Ruth once said, If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakeable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake.

Billy Graham

#6. We cannot pray and remain the same.

Ruth Graham

#7. There is a time to submit and there is a time to outwit.

Ruth Graham

#8. God has not always answered my prayers. If He had, I would have married the wrong man
several times!

Ruth Graham

#9. God does not punish us for our sins but by them.

Ruth Graham

#10. My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother's newness to parenthood nor the force of her middle-aged traumas, as my younger sister, Ruth, did.

Katharine Graham

#11. Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Ruth Graham

#12. Ruth once wrote, "Dear Journal, Never let a single day pass without saying an encouraging word to each child . . .'More people fail for lack of encouragement,' someone wrote, 'than for any other reason.

Billy Graham

#13. If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they've got
and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage.

Ruth Bell Graham

#14. I read many years ago that Billy Graham's wife, Ruth, was asked, "How is your marriage so successful?" She replied, "Because he plays golf, and I play bridge." Ruth Bell Graham understood the value of outside sources of life for a marriage to flourish.

Henry Cloud

#15. My job is to take care of the possible and to trust God with the impossible.

Ruth Graham

#16. Love without clinging, cry if you must, but privately cry, the heart will adjust.

Ruth Graham

#17. Temptation and testing (or a trial) are two sides of the same coin. Satan uses an occasion or a person to tempt us to fall; God uses the same to try us and make us stronger.

Ruth Graham

#18. When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same
person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."

Billy Graham

#19. It takes more faith to be an atheist than to believe in God.

Ruth Graham

#20. I think losing a loved one must be a little like losing a leg. First there is the shock, then the anesthetic, and the painkillers; the attention of doctors and nurses, flowers and cards and visits from friends. But sooner or later you have to learn to walk without it.

Ruth Graham

#21. [Ruth's] disposition is the same all the time - very sweet and very gracious and very charming. When it comes to spiritual things, my wife has had the greatest influence on my ministry.

Billy Graham

#22. End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave
inspired hy a road sign she saw.

Billy Graham

#23. Without Ruth's partnership and encouragement over the years, my own work would have been impossible. We were called by God as a team.

Billy Graham

#24. I have been asked the question, Who do you go to for counsel, for spiritual guidance?' My answer: My wife, Ruth. She is the only one I completely confide in.

Billy Graham

#25. A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers.

Ruth Graham

#26. Worship and worry cannot live in the same heart: they are mutually exclusive.

Ruth Graham

#27. When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

Patricia Cornwell

#28. Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another.

Ruth Graham

#29. happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers." ~ Ruth Bell Graham.

Lisa Jacobson

#30. Every cat knows some things need to be buried.

Ruth Graham

#31. Prodigals are not limited in gender, race, age or color. They do have one thing in common: They have left home, and they are missed. Ruth Bell Graham

James Banks