Top 500 Billy Graham Quotes (2023 Update)
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451. “Our Father and our God, my finite mind cannot fathom Your infinite nature. My physical body cannot comprehend Your spiritual being. And my ever-changing mind cannot grasp Your never-changing ways. Still, I believe You are all these things. Help me to believe even more through Jesus, through whom I pray. Amen.”

— Billy Graham

452. “I am convinced that these heavenly beings exist and that they provide unseen aid on our behalf.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

455. “Be careful before leaving someone in a sorrowing situation. Say a word of prayer with them and share even a brief word of encouragement from the Scriptures.”

— Billy Graham

456. “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

457. “It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put Jesus on the cross – it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer His death.”

— Billy Graham

458. “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

459. “Our way lies not in human ingenuity, but in a return to God.”

— Billy Graham

460. “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

461. “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

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

— Billy Graham

463. “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

464. “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

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

— Billy Graham

466. “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

467. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

472. “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

473. “I don’t have many sad days.”

— Billy Graham

474. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

477. “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

478. “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

479. “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

480. “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

481. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

484. “Temptation: Recognize it for what it is, and then reject it – immediately and without compromise.”

— Billy Graham

485. “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

486. “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

487. “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

488. “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

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

— Billy Graham

490. “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

491. “I am not a televangelist.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

496. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

500. “Because of the brevity of life, the Bible warns that we should be prepared to meet God at all times.”

— Billy Graham