Billy Graham Quotes
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701. “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

702. “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

703. “My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ.”

— Billy Graham

704. “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

705. “Every human being is under construction from conception to death.”

— Billy Graham

706. “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

707. “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

708. “I have many friends that don’t claim to be followers of Christ. As far as day-to-day friendship and being together at various functions, I don’t think that there should be any difference at all.”

— Billy Graham

709. “Our World has becoime a neighbourhood without becoming a brotherhood.”

— Billy Graham

710. “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

711. “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

712. “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

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

— Billy Graham

714. “The most prominent place in hell is reserved for those who are neutral on the great issues of life.”

— Billy Graham

715. “For me, the best time to pray is the very moment a tense situation or an unspiritual attitude overtakes me. God the Holy Spirit is always there, ready to help me gain victory in the spiritual battles I face-big or small.”

— Billy Graham

716. “The Beatles are a passing phase, symptoms of the confusion about us.”

— Billy Graham

717. “Pope John Paul II was unquestionably the most influential voice for morality and peace in the world during the last 100 years.”

— Billy Graham

718. “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

719. “I look forward to seeing Christ and bowing down before Him in praise and gratitude for all He has done for us, and for using me on this earth by His grace-just as I am.”

— Billy Graham

720. “When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite ‘thank you,’ it is the recognition of dependence.”

— Billy Graham

721. “Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.”

— Billy Graham

722. “If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.”

— Billy Graham

723. “Ruth and I are happily incompatible.”

— Billy Graham

724. “The thing that I remember the most in my childhood was the love of family and the discipline in the family. My father and mother both were disciplinarians, and they didn’t mind using the rod. Maybe because I was the oldest child I always felt I got much more of it than anybody else.”

— Billy Graham

725. “God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.”

— Billy Graham

726. “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

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

— Billy Graham

728. “The greatest miracle of the Bible is that the prophets of Israel could keep a religion as clean as a hounds tooth amid all the corruption and idolatry of the nations surrounding them.”

— Billy Graham

729. “The word ‘romance,’ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

731. “The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.”

— Billy Graham

732. “Be careful before leaving someone in a sorrowing situation. Say a word of prayer with them and share even a brief word of encouragement from the Scriptures.”

— Billy Graham

733. “The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

735. “The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I’m here.”

— Billy Graham

736. “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

737. “No nation is ever taller than when on its knees...”

— Billy Graham

738. “Think about the holes children make when they dig in the sand on the seashore. When the waves come in, the holes are swallowed up by the ocean. Similarly, when we know Christ, our physical death is overwhelmed by the love and grace of God. Death is swallowed up in the victory of Christ.”

— Billy Graham

739. “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

740. “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

741. “The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.”

— Billy Graham

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742. “God’s hand never slips.”

— Billy Graham

743. “It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put Jesus on the cross – it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer His death.”

— Billy Graham

744. “Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I’m really looking forward to that.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

746. “I don’t have many sad days.”

— Billy Graham

747. “The Bible teaches that history began in the Middle East, and someday history will end in the Middle East.”

— Billy Graham

748. “Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.”

— Billy Graham

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749. “The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.”

— Billy Graham

750. “All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.”

— Billy Graham