Top 500 Billy Graham Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Give your life to Christ, he’ll challenge you.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

203. “When Satan knocks, I just send Christ to the door.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

206. “God undertook the most dramatic rescue operation in cosmic history. He determined to save the human race from self-destruction, and He sent His Son Jesus Christ to salvage and redeem them. The work of man’s redemption was accomplished at the cross.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

208. “Grief’s darkness fades in the sunlight of thanksgiving.”

— Billy Graham

209. “Look up on a starry night, and you will see the majesty and power of an infinite Creator.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

212. “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

213. “The most important events in human history were the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”

— Billy Graham

214. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

217. “Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.”

— Billy Graham

218. “I’m the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

220. “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

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

— Billy Graham

222. “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

223. “Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.”

— Billy Graham

224. “The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.”

— Billy Graham

225. “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

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. “Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it’s actually a battle between Christ and Anti-Christ.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

229. “You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.”

— Billy Graham

230. “The hope we have in Christ is an absolute certainty. We can be sure that the place Christ is preparing for us will be ready when we arrive, because with Him nothing is left to chance. Everything He promised He will deliver.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

232. “The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection.”

— Billy Graham

233. “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

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

— Billy Graham

235. “So when you sense a still, small voice in your soul – and you have or you will – it is the Holy Spirit of God telling you that you’re not right with Him. Do not ignore the Voice. God is drawing you by His love – don’t pull away. When you quench the fire of conviction, you have rejected the Holy Spirit. So when you feel that tug, do not resist. Take hold of the living Christ, who will come and dwell in you.”

— Billy Graham

236. “Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

238. “God’s hand never slips.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

240. “The devil will try to discourage you, to divert you; he will seek to dilute your testimony; he will attempt anything to destroy your relationship to Christ and your influence upon others.”

— Billy Graham

241. “God knows what is best for you, and He wants to reveal it to you and show you what you ought to do.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

244. “Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

246. “We say to our children, “Act like grown-ups,” but Jesus said to the grown-ups, “Be like children.”

— Billy Graham

247. “Heaven is full of answers for which nobody ever bothered to ask.”

— Billy Graham

248. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham