Top 500 Billy Graham Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “God is concerned about everything that concerns us – without exception.”

— Billy Graham

302. “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

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

— Billy Graham

304. “If ever there was a time this country needed the intervention of God, it is now.”

— Billy Graham

305. “The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.”

— Billy Graham

306. “Don’t let past mistakes keep you from seeking God.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

308. “Commitment to great causes makes great men.”

— Billy Graham

309. “I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.”

— Billy Graham

310. “Christ demands first place. There’s no room on the throne of your heart for two gods.”

— Billy Graham

311. “We have largely lost sight of the holiness and purity of God today. This is one reason why we tolerate sin so easily.”

— Billy Graham

312. “There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul.”

— Billy Graham

313. “Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison – you can pray and know God hears!”

— Billy Graham

314. “At great cost to Himself, God has made it possible for each of us to live with Him eternally. Those who reject God’s offer of a heavenly home will be assigned to hell.”

— Billy Graham

315. “No matter what you might be going through right now, God has blessed you far more than you probably imagine-not just with material goods, but with family, with freedom and with the ability to enjoy His gifts.”

— Billy Graham

316. “The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control.”

— Billy Graham

317. “Some of the greatest values that have influenced me through the years are those that I learned as a boy growing up on the farm. I remember mostly the love in our family, but I also remember the discipline. Then there was the work; we all had to work.”

— Billy Graham

318. “Those who have suffered make the best comforters.”

— Billy Graham

319. “Fear can banish faith, but faith can banish fear.”

— Billy Graham

320. “The same Book that tells us over and over again of God’s love warns us constantly of the devil who would come between us and God, the devil who is ever waiting to ensnare men’s souls.”

— Billy Graham

321. “Learn to take sin seriously – be on guard against it and resist its tug, fight its power. But most of all learn to take the Holy Spirit seriously, calling on Him to help you overcome sin’s power and live a holy and godly life.”

— Billy Graham

322. “Tim Keller’s ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him.”

— Billy Graham

323. “Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

325. “Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.”

— Billy Graham

326. “Suffering can give us opportunities to witness. The world is a gigantic hospital; nowhere is there a greater chance to see the peace and joy of the Lord than when the journey though the valley is the darkest.”

— Billy Graham

327. “Our valleys may be filled with foes and tears; but we can lift our eyes to the hills to see God and the angels, heaven’s spectators, who support us according to God’s infinite wisdom as they prepare our welcome home.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

329. “When my time to die comes an angel will be there to comfort me. He will give me peace and joy even at that most critical hour, and usher me into the presence of God, and I will dwell with the Lord forever. Thank God for the ministry of His blessed angels.”

— Billy Graham

330. “Life is a glorious opportunity, if it is used to condition us for eternity. If we fail in this, though we succeed in everything else, our life will have been a failure.”

— Billy Graham

331. “All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.”

— Billy Graham

332. “I want people to remember me that I was faithful, faithful to the gospel, faithful to the call that God gave me. And when I get to heaven, I’m going to ask him why he called me, because I was much used to milking cows and working on the farm than I was preaching.”

— Billy Graham

333. “God will not force himself upon us against our will. If we want his love, we need to believe in him. We need to make a definite, positive act of commitment and surrender to the love of God. No one can do it for us.”

— Billy Graham

334. “I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.”

— Billy Graham

335. “The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred, confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.”

— Billy Graham

336. “Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges – battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.”

— Billy Graham

337. “Jesus used the carefree attitude of the birds to underscore the fact that worrying is unnatural. I am learning in my own life, day by day, to keep my mind centered on Christ.”

— Billy Graham

338. “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

339. “Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!”

— Billy Graham

340. “Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?”

— Billy Graham

341. “A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.”

— Billy Graham

342. “In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.”

— Billy Graham

343. “Jesus made everything so simple and we have made it so complicated. He spoke to the people in short sentences and everyday words, illustrating His messages with never-to-be forgotten stories.”

— Billy Graham

344. “We do not understand the intricate pattern of the stars in their courses, but we know that He who created them does, and that just as surely as He guides them, He is charting a safe course for us.”

— Billy Graham

345. “I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.”

— Billy Graham

346. “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

347. “There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.”

— Billy Graham

348. “There are many things that I don’t understand.”

— Billy Graham

349. “The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing of circumstances and most bitter environment.”

— Billy Graham

350. “I have a certainty about eternity that is a wonderful thing, and I thank God for giving me that certainty. I do not fear death. I may fear a little bit about the process, but not death itself, because I think the moment that my spirit leaves this body, I will be in the presence of the Lord.”

— Billy Graham