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

— Billy Graham

202. “Ask God to show you His plans, not bless your dreams.”

— Billy Graham

203. “Be a good witness by the way you live. The way we live is often more convincing than the words we say.”

— Billy Graham

204. “Salvation is an act of God. It is initiated by God, wrought by God, and sustained by God.”

— Billy Graham

205. “The greatest need in the world at this moment is the transformation of human nature.”

— Billy Graham

206. “God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness.”

— Billy Graham

207. “The secret of a happy home is that members of the family learn to give and receive love.”

— Billy Graham

208. “Christ not only died for all: He died for each.”

— Billy Graham

209. “Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality.”

— Billy Graham

210. “Only those who want everything done for them are bored.”

— Billy Graham

211. “We have found that marriage should be made up of two forgivers. We need to learn to say, “I was wrong, I’m sorry.” And we also need to say, “That’s all right, I love you.””

— Billy Graham

212. “All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.”

— Billy Graham

213. “There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.”

— Billy Graham

214. “The angels minister to God’s servants in time of hardship and danger.”

— Billy Graham

215. “The most remarkable thing about suffering is that God can use it for our good.”

— Billy Graham

216. “I received Christ into my heart and my life began to change. But it was a gradual change. And I didn’t see any flashing bulbs. I didn’t hear any thunder. There was no great emotional experience. It was just saying: Yes, Lord Jesus, I want you to be the lord of my life.”

— Billy Graham

217. “Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer.”

— Billy Graham

218. “The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life’s basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.”

— Billy Graham

219. “When tragedy strikes, no one is fully prepared to deal effectively with all the responsibilitie s, emotional trauma, and grief that begin to impact people. Our Rapid Response Team exists so that people can find the care and comfort of Jesus Christ in the midst of tragedy.”

— Billy Graham

220. “Abraham Lincoln said, “I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this Book upon reason that you can and the balance upon faith, and you will live and die a better man.” Coleridge said he believed the Bible to be the Word of God because, as he put it, “It finds me.” “If you want encouragement,” John Bunyan wrote, “entertain the promises.”

— Billy Graham

221. “We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer.”

— Billy Graham

222. “True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of a person-the undergirding moral and spiritual values and commitments-is the true measure of lasting greatness.”

— Billy Graham

223. “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

224. “I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.”

— Billy Graham

225. “Yes, Satan is real, but so is Christ, and someday Satan will be defeated and Christ will rule forever. Don’t be deceived, but open your heart and mind to Jesus Christ, and put your life into His hands.”

— Billy Graham

226. “If you could work your way to heaven, you would said look what I did, I got myself here by my good works. The only way you are going to make it is to come to that Cross.”

— Billy Graham

227. “I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.”

— Billy Graham

228. “Guy Lafleur said “Each of us has only one past but there are many futures”.”

— Billy Graham

229. “Man has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam’s and Eve’s problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.”

— Billy Graham

230. “Just because the truth is unpopular doesn’t mean that it should not be proclaimed.”

— Billy Graham

231. “In my travels I have found that those who keep Heaven in view remain serene and cheerful in the darkest day. If the glories of Heaven were more real to us, if we lived less for material things and more for things eternal and spiritual, we would be less easily disturbed by this present life.”

— Billy Graham

232. “Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.”

— Billy Graham

233. “Every human being is under construction from conception to death.”

— Billy Graham

234. “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

235. “Prayer is speaking to God – but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.”

— Billy Graham

236. “But those who chose to reject God during their lifetime on earth will be separated from him for eternity. This is not God’s desire, but man’s own choice. God holds every man accountable for his rejection of Christ.”

— Billy Graham

237. “The great comfort in knowing that angels minister to believers in Christ is that God Himself sends them to us.”

— Billy Graham

238. “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

239. “No matter who you are or what your life has been like so far, the rest of your life’s journey can be different. With God’s help you can begin again.”

— Billy Graham

240. “If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark – the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.”

— Billy Graham

241. “Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.”

— Billy Graham

242. “Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

244. “Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life.”

— Billy Graham

245. “Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.”

— Billy Graham

246. “The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.”

— Billy Graham

247. “Life itself, every bit of health that we enjoy, every hour of liberty and free enjoyment, the ability to see, to hear, to speak, to think, and to imagine- all this comes from the hand of God. We show our gratitude by giving back to Him a part of that which He has given to us.”

— Billy Graham

248. “The unbelieving world should see our testimony lived out daily because it just may point them to the Savior.”

— Billy Graham

249. “God can take anything that happens to us-even bad things-and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person-if we let Him.”

— Billy Graham

250. “Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.”

— Billy Graham