Top 500 Billy Graham Quotes (2024 Update)
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301. “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

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

— Billy Graham

303. “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

304. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

307. “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

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

— Billy Graham

309. “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

310. “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

311. “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

312. “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

313. “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

314. “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

315. “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

316. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

322. “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

323. “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

324. “Revenge easily descends into an endless cycle of hate and violence. The Bible says never repay evil with evil.”

— Billy Graham

325. “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

326. “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

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

— Billy Graham

328. “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

329. “We have been proud and thought we were better than any other race, any other people. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to stumble into hell because of our pride.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

331. “I trust Jesus with all my tomorrows, knowing that He will solve the mystery of life beyond the grave.”

— Billy Graham

332. “If America is to survive, we must elect more God-centered men and women to public office; individuals who will seek Divine guidance in the affairs of state.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

334. “We are not cistern made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.”

— Billy Graham

335. “The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.”

— Billy Graham

336. “Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.”

— Billy Graham

337. “There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.”

— Billy Graham

338. “Living for Christ is a day-to-day going on with Him. It is a continuous dependence upon the Spirit of God. It is believing in His faithfulness.”

— Billy Graham

339. “I have so many gay friends, and we remain friends.”

— Billy Graham

340. “The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need on no outward stimulus.”

— Billy Graham

341. “The Christian should stand out like a sparkling diamond.”

— Billy Graham

342. “No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could’ve done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it’s best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.”

— Billy Graham

343. “Even our pets can become idols.”

— Billy Graham

344. “Those who have a true love of freedom will do everything in their power to keep the freedom that they have.”

— Billy Graham

345. “The Bible says we must choose two ways of life.”

— Billy Graham

346. “Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

348. “The problems of peace are greater than the problems of war.”

— Billy Graham

349. “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

350. “Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven – while Shea would still have a job leading worship.”

— Billy Graham