Billy Graham Quotes
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451. “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

452. “In heaven I’ll wish with all my heart that I could reclaim a thousandth part of the time I’ve let slip through my fingers, that I could call back those countless conversations which could have glorified my Lord-but didn’t.”

— Billy Graham

453. “God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.”

— Billy Graham

454. “We have so many battles going on in America today that we should be a people of prayer. Our government needs prayer. Our leaders need prayer. Our schools need prayer. Our youth need our prayers. Our families need our prayers.”

— Billy Graham

455. “Man cannot control himself, and if he will not be controlled by Jesus Christ, then he will be controlled by Satan.”

— Billy Graham

456. “A life touched by the Holy Spirit will tolerate sin no longer.”

— Billy Graham

457. “Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is watching, and His angels are interested spectators too.”

— Billy Graham

458. “I don’t have many sad days.”

— Billy Graham

459. “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

460. “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

461. “We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

463. “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

464. “I’m glad to know that we do have political leaders that believe in God, and that has been true from the days of George Washington.”

— Billy Graham

465. “Faith in Christ is voluntary. A person cannot be coerced, bribed, or tricked into trusting Jesus. God will not force His way into your life. The Holy Spirit will do everything possible to disturb you, draw you, love you – but finally it is your personal decision.”

— Billy Graham

466. “Moses had a choice of following God or reveling in the pleasures of Egypt. As heir to the throne of Egypt, he enjoyed luxury; he didn’t desire to suffer or sacrifice any more than we do, but he chose to follow God. “He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

469. “First of all, you have to meet God with light! I do not believe that any man, that any man can solve the problems of life without Jesus Christ.”

— Billy Graham

470. “I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.”

— Billy Graham

471. “The Bible teaches that faith is the only approach that we have to God. No man has sins forgiven, no man goes to heaven, no man has assurance of peace and happiness, until he has faith in Jesus Christ.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

473. “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.”

— Billy Graham

474. “I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.”

— Billy Graham

475. “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

476. “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

477. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

480. “I’d grown up in a Presbyterian church, but I really didn’t know Christ personally in my heart. I knew him, but I didn’t know him. And there’s a difference between an intellectual faith and a personal, heart faith in which I opened my heart to him and let him rule my life.”

— Billy Graham

481. “I am not a televangelist.”

— Billy Graham

482. “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

483. “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

484. “Chose you this day whom, not tomorrow, whom you’ll serve?”

— Billy Graham

485. “Wherever the Gospel is preached, no matter how crudely, there are bound to be results.”

— Billy Graham

486. “The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.”

— Billy Graham

487. “Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

489. “I only know that when Jesus is with a person, that one can endure the deepest suffering and somehow emerge a better and stronger Christian because of it.”

— Billy Graham

490. “In a very real sense, the suffering of this world was created by man himself.”

— Billy Graham

491. “On a specific day marked on the earth’s calendar, and in a specific place on the earth’s map, the Son of God came to the planet. It was love.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

493. “Materialism may do what a foreign invader could never hope to achieve – materialism robs a nation of its spiritual strength.”

— Billy Graham

494. “Scripture tells us that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord. I believe all these signs are evident today.”

— Billy Graham

495. “Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish.”

— Billy Graham

496. “It’s a paradise that we are going to go into, because to be in the presence of God itself will be a paradise.”

— Billy Graham

497. “You’re rich if you’ve had a meal today.”

— Billy Graham

498. “Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.”

— Billy Graham

499. “I don’t think I get angry.”

— Billy Graham

500. “What we think of Christ influences our thinking and controls our actions.”

— Billy Graham