Top 500 Billy Graham Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.”

— Billy Graham

252. “Our chaotic, confused world has no greater need than to hear the message of good news – the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

257. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

260. “I can barely walk, but it’s a privilege to be able to move at all.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

262. “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

263. “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

264. “The Spirit of God takes the Word of God and makes the child of God.”

— Billy Graham

265. “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

266. “God never tempts any man. That is Satan’s business.”

— Billy Graham

267. “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

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

— Billy Graham

269. “Millions of angels are at God’s command.”

— Billy Graham

270. “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

271. “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

272. “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

273. “Embracing conflict can be a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and the re-engergizing of ourselves and others. Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

275. “Once you’ve lost your privacy, you realize you’ve lost an extremely valuable thing.”

— Billy Graham

276. “Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God’s love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes.”

— Billy Graham

277. “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

278. “Don’t let circumstances distress you. Rather, look for the will of God for your life to be revealed in and through those circumstances.”

— Billy Graham

279. “I’m not for the left wing or the right wing – I’m for the whole bird.”

— Billy Graham

280. “A life without God is like a boat without an anchor.”

— Billy Graham

281. “There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.”

— Billy Graham

282. “The ground is level at the foot of the cross.”

— Billy Graham

283. “Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.”

— Billy Graham

284. “Avail yourself of the greatest privilege this side of heaven. Jesus Christ died to make this communion and communication with the Father possible.”

— Billy Graham

285. “Many people say they do not fear death, but the process of dying. It’s not the destination, but the trip that they dread.”

— Billy Graham

286. “Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.”

— Billy Graham

287. “Most of all, God has blessed us by giving us the privilege of knowing Him and walking with Him every day. He did this by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins.”

— Billy Graham

288. “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

289. “It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.”

— Billy Graham

290. “Like Joseph storing up grain during the years of plenty to be used during the years of famine that lay ahead, may we store up the truths of God’s Word in our hearts as much as possible, so that we are prepared for whatever suffering we are called upon to endure.”

— Billy Graham

291. “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

292. “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

293. “God made us for one reason: so He could have fellowship with us. It wasn’t that He was lonely or needed us but He made us in His image so He could shower His love upon us.”

— Billy Graham

294. “Not to decide is to decide not to, nowhere in the bible does it promise tomorrow.”

— Billy Graham

295. “Heaven doesn’t make this life less important; it makes it more important.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

297. “Sometimes life touches one person with a bouquet and another with a thorn bush, But the first may find a wasp in the flowers, and the second may discover roses among the thorns.”

— Billy Graham

298. “While our world is shaking and crumbling, we need to realize that one thing will never change, and that is God. He is the same today as he was ten million years ago, and will be the same ten million years from today.”

— Billy Graham

299. “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

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

— Billy Graham