“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.”
— Billy Graham
“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.”
“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.”
“While our world is shaking and crumbling, we need to realize that one thing will never change, and that is God. He is the same today as he was ten million years ago, and will be the same ten million years from today.”
“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.”
“Some of the greatest spiritual revivals in the past occurred just when the situation seemed to be the darkest. In the history of our own nation, for example, countless thousands turned to Christ during the darkest days of the Civil War, setting the stage for national reconciliation later on.”
“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?”
“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 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.”
“Those who have a true love of freedom will do everything in their power to keep the freedom that they have.”
“If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.”
“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.”
“Prayer is speaking to God – but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.”
“If your faith isn’t rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.”
“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 have the problems of, I must confess, old age.”
“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.”
“Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God’s 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.”
“I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and women God has raised up through the centuries to build Christ’s church and take the Gospel everywhere.”
“For a married couple to expect perfection for each other is unrealistic.”
“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.”
“Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Don’t apologize for who you are and what you’ve done in the past. Be who you are and do what you do.”
“There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul.”
“All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.”
“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.”
“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.”
“All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.”
“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.”
“Some believe strongly that each Christian may have his own guardian angel assigned to watch over him or her.”
“The end of the world begins the moment you die.”
“It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.”
“I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.”
“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.”
“Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish.”
“The Bible teaches that faith is the only approach that we have to God. No man has sins forgiven, no man goes to heaven, no man has assurance of peace and happiness, until he has faith in Jesus Christ.”
“Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.”
“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.”
“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.”
“People have a negative impression of New York that I don’t think is quite fair.”
“Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.”
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