Top 500 Billy Graham Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “Our World has becoime a neighbourhood without becoming a brotherhood.”

— Billy Graham

452. “The Beatles are a passing phase, symptoms of the confusion about us.”

— Billy Graham

453. “Anxiety and fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow.”

— Billy Graham

454. “Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.”

— Billy Graham

455. “When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite ‘thank you,’ it is the recognition of dependence.”

— Billy Graham

456. “The most prominent place in hell is reserved for those who are neutral on the great issues of life.”

— Billy Graham

457. “The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end – and that Heaven exists – is because we were created in the image of God.”

— Billy Graham

458. “America’s Declaration of Independence speaks of “the pursuit of happiness,” but nowhere in the Bible are we told to pursue this. Happiness is elusive, and we don’t find it by seeking it.”

— Billy Graham

459. “Ruth and I are happily incompatible.”

— Billy Graham

460. “Exercise and proper eating habits are very important, since the Bible says that the body is God’s holy temple, but I don’t think that superbodies equate with committed Christian discipleship. Some of the greatest saints I’ve known have been those with physical infirmities.”

— Billy Graham

461. “God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.”

— Billy Graham

462. “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.”

— Billy Graham

463. “I look forward to seeing Christ and bowing down before Him in praise and gratitude for all He has done for us, and for using me on this earth by His grace-just as I am.”

— Billy Graham

464. “I am convinced that when a man sincerely searches for God with all his heart, God will reveal Himself in some way.”

— Billy Graham

465. “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.”

— Billy Graham

466. “I have had the privilege of preaching the Gospel on every continent in most of the countries of the world, and I have found that when I present the simple message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, with authority, quoting from the very Word of God – He takes that message and drives it supernaturally into the human heart.”

— Billy Graham

467. “Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I’m really looking forward to that.”

— Billy Graham

468. “If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.”

— Billy Graham

469. “The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I’m here.”

— Billy Graham

470. “No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you.”

— Billy Graham

471. “God’s hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good.”

— Billy Graham

472. “I remember the first sermon I ever preached. I had four sermons. I preached them, all four in ten minutes. And that was the beginning, in a place called Bostwick, Florida, in northern Florida, in a little tiny church, and on a cold night, about 40 people. And I was so nervous.”

— Billy Graham

473. “The word ‘romance,’ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.”

— Billy Graham

474. “I think we should love sinners, and welcome them, and open our arms to them, and then we don’t totally accept them into our fellowship as believers and as Christians until they have repented their sins and changed their way of living.”

— Billy Graham

475. “I have never been quite sure who controls the weather. Although we always prayed for clear skies, I have had to preach in all kinds of storms.”

— Billy Graham

476. “Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.”

— Billy Graham

477. “The Bible teaches that history began in the Middle East, and someday history will end in the Middle East.”

— Billy Graham

478. “Strengthen your commitment to Christ – now. Don’t wait until the storms of temptation, or sickness, or old age threaten to blow you off-course; now is the time to strengthen your faith.”

— Billy Graham

479. “Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.”

— Billy Graham

480. “The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.”

— Billy Graham

481. “I’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.”

— Billy Graham

482. “Serve God and live; serve these other gods and died.”

— Billy Graham

483. “No nation is ever taller than when on its knees...”

— Billy Graham

484. “I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.”

— Billy Graham

485. “Becoming a Christian takes only a single step; being a Christian means walking with Christ the rest of your life.”

— Billy Graham

486. “We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.”

— Billy Graham

487. “In the founding era of our country, it was not organized religion but personal faith that brought focus and unified the early leadership-maybe an unspoken faith in God, and certain values that came with that faith. So in that sense, we cannot discount, in my judgment, religious faith in politics.”

— Billy Graham

488. “The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.”

— Billy Graham

489. “Be attractive and winsome, but do not compromise your convictions for the sake of popularity.”

— Billy Graham

490. “A Christian is someone who has turned to God from idols.”

— Billy Graham

491. “Homes that are built on anything other than love are bound to crumble.”

— Billy Graham

492. “Much of the philosophy of religious education has been based upon a false premise, and perhaps many have missed the essence of Christian experience, having had religious training take its place.”

— Billy Graham

493. “Don’t apologize for who you are and what you’ve done in the past. Be who you are and do what you do.”

— Billy Graham

494. “I don’t have many sad days.”

— Billy Graham

495. “I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.”

— Billy Graham

496. “It takes suffering to widen the soul.”

— Billy Graham

497. “The philosopher says think your way out. The sensualist says play your way out but none of it works.”

— Billy Graham

498. “I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.”

— Billy Graham

499. “God has not promised to bless my thoughts, but He has promised to bless His Word.”

— Billy Graham

500. “A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.”

— Billy Graham