Top 500 Billy Graham Quotes (2023 Update)
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401. “There is no scriptural basis for segregation. The ground at the foot of the cross is level, and it touches my heart when I see whites standing shoulder to shoulder with blacks at the cross.”

— Billy Graham

402. “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

403. “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

404. “There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.”

— Billy Graham

405. “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

406. “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

407. “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

408. “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

409. “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

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

— Billy Graham

411. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

416. “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

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

419. “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

420. “Anxiety and fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow.”

— Billy Graham

421. “The light of God’s presence in our lives is a purifying flame that will draw us near to Him.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

424. “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

425. “Ruth and I are happily incompatible.”

— Billy Graham

426. “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.”

— Billy Graham

427. “God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.”

— Billy Graham

428. “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

429. “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

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

— Billy Graham

431. “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

432. “Angels belong to a uniquely different dimension of creation which we, limited to the natural order, can scarcely comprehend.”

— Billy Graham

433. “I am convinced that when a man sincerely searches for God with all his heart, God will reveal Himself in some way.”

— Billy Graham

434. “Man cannot control himself, and if he will not be controlled by Jesus Christ, then he will be controlled by Satan.”

— Billy Graham

435. “God’s hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good.”

— Billy Graham

436. “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.”

— Billy Graham

437. “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

438. “Faith that saves has one distinguishing quality: saving faith is a faith that produces obedience; it is a faith that brings about a way of life.”

— Billy Graham

439. “Exercise and proper eating habits are very important, since the Bible says that the body is God’s holy temple, but I don’t think that superbodies equate with committed Christian discipleship. Some of the greatest saints I’ve known have been those with physical infirmities.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

441. “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.”

— Billy Graham

442. “I remember the first sermon I ever preached. I had four sermons. I preached them, all four in ten minutes. And that was the beginning, in a place called Bostwick, Florida, in northern Florida, in a little tiny church, and on a cold night, about 40 people. And I was so nervous.”

— Billy Graham

443. “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

444. “Some believe strongly that each Christian may have his own guardian angel assigned to watch over him or her.”

— Billy Graham

445. “Our Father and our God, my finite mind cannot fathom Your infinite nature. My physical body cannot comprehend Your spiritual being. And my ever-changing mind cannot grasp Your never-changing ways. Still, I believe You are all these things. Help me to believe even more through Jesus, through whom I pray. Amen.”

— Billy Graham

446. “I am convinced that these heavenly beings exist and that they provide unseen aid on our behalf.”

— Billy Graham

447. “I’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.”

— Billy Graham

448. “Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.”

— Billy Graham

449. “Serve God and live; serve these other gods and died.”

— Billy Graham

450. “Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.”

— Billy Graham