Top 500 Billy Graham Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

303. “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

304. “Heaven will be the perfection we’ve always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.”

— Billy Graham

305. “God is concerned about everything that concerns us – without exception.”

— Billy Graham

306. “The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.”

— Billy Graham

307. “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

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

— Billy Graham

309. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

314. “Because of the brevity of life, the Bible warns that we should be prepared to meet God at all times.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

316. “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

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

— Billy Graham

318. “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

319. “If I had to do it all over again, I would speak less and study more.”

— Billy Graham

320. “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

321. “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

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

— Billy Graham

323. “We in America should be grateful to God for the blessing he has given us.”

— Billy Graham

324. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

327. “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

328. “As long as Satan is loose in the world and our hearts are dominated by his evil passions, it will never be easy or popular to be a follower of Christ.”

— Billy Graham

329. “When the “evil day” comes, we do not have to be dependent upon the circumstances around us, but rather on the resources of God!”

— Billy Graham

330. “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

331. “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

332. “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

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

— Billy Graham

334. “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

335. “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

336. “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

337. “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

338. “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

339. “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

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

— Billy Graham

341. “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

342. “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

343. “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

344. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

348. “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

349. “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

350. “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