“The Bible teaches that history began in the Middle East, and someday history will end in the Middle East.”
— Billy Graham
“Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.”
“I am convinced that these heavenly beings exist and that they provide unseen aid on our behalf.”
“In heaven I’ll wish with all my heart that I could reclaim a thousandth part of the time I’ve let slip through my fingers, that I could call back those countless conversations which could have glorified my Lord-but didn’t.”
“I have never been quite sure who controls the weather. Although we always prayed for clear skies, I have had to preach in all kinds of storms.”
“I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.”
“God’s hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good.”
“Prayer is speaking to God – but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.”
“We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.”
“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.”
“Those are decisions only the Lord will make. I believe the love of God is absolute. He said he gave his son for the whole world, and I think he loves everybody regardless of what label they have.”
“World travel and getting to know clergy of all denominations has helped mold me into an ecumenical being. We’re separated by theology and, in some instances, culture and race, but all that means nothing to me any more.”
“I think we should love sinners, and welcome them, and open our arms to them, and then we don’t totally accept them into our fellowship as believers and as Christians until they have repented their sins and changed their way of living.”
“If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.”
“If your faith isn’t rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.”
“I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly. Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine. Like a shot of adrenaline, it floods the spirit with vitality.”
“Wherever the Gospel is preached, no matter how crudely, there are bound to be results.”
“For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world.”
“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.”
“I have never targeted Muslims. I have never targeted Jews. I believe that we should declare the fact that God loves you, God’s willing to forgive you, God can change you, and Christ and his kingdom is open to anybody who repents and by faith receives him as lord and savior.”
“Don’t apologize for who you are and what you’ve done in the past. Be who you are and do what you do.”
“On a specific day marked on the earth’s calendar, and in a specific place on the earth’s map, the Son of God came to the planet. It was love.”
“It takes suffering to widen the soul.”
“God’s hand never slips.”
“I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.”
“Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God’s Word.”
“No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you.”
“All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.”
“What makes us Christians shrug our shoulders when we ought to be flexing our muscles? What makes us apathetic in a day when there are loads to lift, a world to be won and captives to be set free? Why are so many bored when the times demand action?”
“It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.”
“I’m glad to know that we do have political leaders that believe in God, and that has been true from the days of George Washington.”
“We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.”
“There are many things that I don’t understand.”
“Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.”
“I’m thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn’t still be here if it weren’t for them.”
“Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.”
“I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.”
“The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end – and that Heaven exists – is because we were created in the image of God.”
“Faith is loved and honored by God more than any other single thing.”
“I only know that when Jesus is with a person, that one can endure the deepest suffering and somehow emerge a better and stronger Christian because of it.”
“It’s a paradise that we are going to go into, because to be in the presence of God itself will be a paradise.”
“Serve God and live; serve these other gods and died.”
“A calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.”
“I’d grown up in a Presbyterian church, but I really didn’t know Christ personally in my heart. I knew him, but I didn’t know him. And there’s a difference between an intellectual faith and a personal, heart faith in which I opened my heart to him and let him rule my life.”
“There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul.”
“Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it will be like.”
“All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.”
“God has not promised to bless my thoughts, but He has promised to bless His Word.”
“Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is watching, and His angels are interested spectators too.”
“Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that person was kind to him or her.”
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