Top 500 Billy Graham Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Don’t let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door – if we seek it.”

— Billy Graham

152. “Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?”

— Billy Graham

153. “No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.”

— Billy Graham

154. “Most of all, let the Word of God fill you and renew your mind every day. When our minds are on Christ, Satan has little room to maneuver.”

— Billy Graham

155. “Christ did not suffer and die to offer cheap grace. Jesus did not go willingly to the cross so we could have an easy life or offer a faith built on easy-believism. As someone once said, ‘Salvation is free, but not cheap.’ It cost Jesus His life.”

— Billy Graham

156. “When we come to Christ, we’re no longer the most important person in the world to us; Christ is. Instead of living only for ourselves, we have a higher goal: to live for Jesus.”

— Billy Graham

157. “There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us.”

— Billy Graham

158. “Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.”

— Billy Graham

159. “When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates.”

— Billy Graham

160. “I can tell you that God is alive because I talked to him this morning.”

— Billy Graham

161. “If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.”

— Billy Graham

162. “Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.”

— Billy Graham

163. “Two conflicting forces cannot exist in one human heart. When doubt reigns, faith cannot abide. Where hatred rules, love is crowded out. Where selfishness rules, there love cannot dwell. When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.”

— Billy Graham

164. “Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn’t pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.”

— Billy Graham

165. “Jesus Christ is God in human flesh, and the story of His life, death, and resurrection is the only Good News the world will ever hear.”

— Billy Graham

166. “Sin is rebellion against God.”

— Billy Graham

167. “The word of God hidden in the heart is a stubborn voice to suppress.”

— Billy Graham

168. “Kindness is an essential part of Gods work and ours here on earth.”

— Billy Graham

169. “I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‘Lord, remember me.’”

— Billy Graham

170. “I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God’s love for them in Christ.”

— Billy Graham

171. “Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.”

— Billy Graham

172. “To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.”

— Billy Graham

173. “It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.”

— Billy Graham

174. “Sin was conquered on the cross. Christ’s death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph.”

— Billy Graham

175. “Please join me in praying for America, that we will turn our hearts back toward God.”

— Billy Graham

176. “Some of us want the crown before the cross.”

— Billy Graham

177. “God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.”

— Billy Graham

178. “Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.”

— Billy Graham

179. “A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.”

— Billy Graham

180. “Jesus was not a white man; He was not a black man. He came from that part of the world that touches Africa and Asia and Europe. Christianity is not a white man’s religion and don’t let anybody ever tell you that it’s white or black. Christ belongs to all people; He belongs to the whole world.”

— Billy Graham

181. “I don’t want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.”

— Billy Graham

182. “On our knees we are the most powerful force on earth.”

— Billy Graham

183. “The Christian life isn’t a playground but a battlefield.”

— Billy Graham

184. “Bible teaching about the Second Coming of Christ was thought of as “doomsday” preaching. But not anymore. It is the only ray of hope that shines as an ever brightening beam in a darkening world.”

— Billy Graham

185. “Men change, fashions change, conditions and circumstances change, but God never changes.”

— Billy Graham

186. “The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.”

— Billy Graham

187. “Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!”

— Billy Graham

188. “Knowing we will be with Christ forever far outweighs our burdens today! Keep your eyes on eternity!”

— Billy Graham

189. “The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.”

— Billy Graham

190. “Make it your goal to build strong foundations for your life – foundations constructed from prayer and the truths of God’s Word.”

— Billy Graham

191. “All mankind is crying out for guidance, for comfort, for peace.”

— Billy Graham

192. “One of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism.”

— Billy Graham

193. “Being judgmental and condemning is not one of the gifts of the Spirit.”

— Billy Graham

194. “A suffering person does not need a lecture – he needs a listener.”

— Billy Graham

195. “A checkbook is a theological document, it will tell you who and what you worship.”

— Billy Graham

196. “Give me five minutes with a person’s checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.”

— Billy Graham

197. “The cross is offensive because it directly confronts the evils which dominate so much of this world.”

— Billy Graham

198. “Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.”

— Billy Graham

199. “My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ.”

— Billy Graham

200. “I have never known anyone to accept Christ’s redemption and later regret it.”

— Billy Graham