Top 500 Billy Graham Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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

303. “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

304. “Become grounded in the Bible. As Christians, we have only one authority, one compass: the Word of God.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

306. “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

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

— Billy Graham

308. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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313. “If your faith isn’t rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.”

— Billy Graham

314. “In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.”

— Billy Graham

315. “Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.”

— Billy Graham

316. “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

317. “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

318. “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

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

— Billy Graham

320. “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

321. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

326. “The cross is the only way of salvation. And the cross gives a new purpose to life.”

— Billy Graham

327. “I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

329. “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

330. “The church is blending into the community by embracing what the world enjoys and, in turn, bringing inside the church the world’s ideas and interests.”

— Billy Graham

331. “Becoming a Christian takes only a single step; being a Christian means walking with Christ the rest of your life.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

333. “I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them and I do.”

— Billy Graham

334. “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

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

— Billy Graham

336. “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

337. “Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and his will first in everything you do.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

340. “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

341. “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

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

— Billy Graham

343. “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

344. “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

345. “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

346. “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

347. “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

348. “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

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

— Billy Graham

350. “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