Top 500 Billy Graham Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “The most important events in human history were the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

205. “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

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

— Billy Graham

207. “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

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

— Billy Graham

209. “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

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

— Billy Graham

211. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

214. “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

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

— Billy Graham

216. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

219. “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

220. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

234. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

239. “We can receive Jesus Christ when we believe in His message and trust in Him alone to save us.”

— Billy Graham

240. “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

241. “The Bible is to your soul what bread is to your body. You need it daily. One good meal does not suffice for a lifetime.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

244. “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

245. “The heart of the Christian Gospel with its incarnation and atonement is in the cross and the resurrection. Jesus was born to die.”

— Billy Graham

246. “Some of the greatest spiritual revivals in the past occurred just when the situation seemed to be the darkest. In the history of our own nation, for example, countless thousands turned to Christ during the darkest days of the Civil War, setting the stage for national reconciliation later on.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

248. “Alexander the great was ask how he conquered the world he said, “by not waivering”.”

— Billy Graham

249. “If ever there was a time this country needed the intervention of God, it is now. We can and should pray for America as a whole, but remember that when God sets out to change a nation, He begins by changing people. It starts with individuals.”

— Billy Graham

250. “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