Top 35 Franklin Graham Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Jesus is Lord! That is not negotiable.”

— Franklin Graham

2. “Prayer is our essential lifeline to God’s throne and heart.”

— Franklin Graham

3. “No matter what storm you face, you need to know God loves you. He has not abandoned you.”

— Franklin Graham

4. “Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.”

— Franklin Graham

5. “Islam is an evil and wicked religion.”

— Franklin Graham

6. “There is not a single thing that Jesus cannot change, control, and conquer because he is the living Lord.”

— Franklin Graham

7. “It was Christ who willingly went to the cross, and it was our sins that took him there.”

— Franklin Graham

8. “This search for happiness can knock us out of sync with God. As the life of Jesus makes clear, keeping in sync with God is about obedience. Any other pursuit will get in the way.”

— Franklin Graham

9. “I don’t believe our country will last the way we know it much longer unless there’s a change. And we just continue this moral decline going down, and the only hope, I believe, is God. We just hope and pray that maybe he’ll hear our prayers and give us some godly leadership.”

— Franklin Graham

10. “God’s word is the same, yesterday and today and a million years from now.”

— Franklin Graham

11. “At a time when our country is waging two wars, approval ratings for Congress are at historic lows, unemployment is at a 70-year high and financial institutions have collapsed around us, I can’t imagine anyone seriously opposing a National Day of Prayer.”

— Franklin Graham

12. “We must not forget that it wasn’t the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn’t the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world.”

— Franklin Graham

13. “We often become mentally and spiritually barren because we’re so busy.”

— Franklin Graham

14. “You have to look at what a person does with his life. Anyone can say that hes a Christian, but you look at how they live.”

— Franklin Graham

15. “And in eternity, faith is the only currency that counts.”

— Franklin Graham

16. “No judge can stop us from praying for our country and I pray that on May 6, millions of Americans will join me in praying for our President, all of our elected leaders, and even for this unjust judge and all those who rule from the bench – that God would guide them and give them wisdom.”

— Franklin Graham

17. “When we realize and embrace the Lord’s will for us, we will love to do it. We won’t want to do anything else. It’s a passion.”

— Franklin Graham

18. “We certainly love the Muslim people. But that is not the faith of this country. And that is not the religion that built this nation. The people of the Christian faith and the Jewish faith are the ones who built America, and it is not Islam.”

— Franklin Graham

19. “I just believe as a Christian, we are to show love; we are to show compassion to people, not to point the finger, not to do this, but to do this – to love them, to welcome them, to embrace them.”

— Franklin Graham

20. “Abortion continues to be a scourge against this country.”

— Franklin Graham

21. “I don’t want people to think that I’m there politicking for this person or that person. We’re not doing that. This is a campaign for God. We need to get godly men and women to run for office, and we need to get the godly men and women out to vote.”

— Franklin Graham

22. “True followers of Christ emulate Christ – true followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.”

— Franklin Graham

23. “America is infatuated with this false understanding of tolerance. To be truly tolerant is not to give every idea equal standing or to compromise the truth in the interest of keeping the peace and making everyone happy.”

— Franklin Graham

24. “Most Christians would not recognize Mormonism as part of the Christian faith.”

— Franklin Graham

25. “He came to give His life for the sins of mankind, not to take life. Mohammad on the contrary was a warrior and killed many innocent people. True followers of Christ emulate Christ-true followers of Mohammed emulate Mohammed.”

— Franklin Graham

26. “Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God’s forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul.”

— Franklin Graham

27. “Jesus Christ paid the price for our eternal salvation through the shedding of His blood on Calvary’s cross for all men – equally.”

— Franklin Graham

28. “Every shoebox offers an opportunity to share the Good News of the Savior with a hurting child.”

— Franklin Graham

29. “As we enter this election year, let’s not forget the most important decision anyone can make-choosing Christ.”

— Franklin Graham

30. “I’ve been called to the slums of the streets and the ditches of the world.”

— Franklin Graham

31. “I don’t want people to think that I’m standing on the steps of the capitals.”

— Franklin Graham

32. “Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations.”

— Franklin Graham

33. “We can all humbly say in the sincerity of faith, “I am loved; I am called; I am secure.””

— Franklin Graham

34. “Just being the son of Billy Graham won’t get me into heaven.”

— Franklin Graham

35. “Well, I’ve never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.”

— Franklin Graham

36. “They are never going to invite you back, so you might as well open your mouth and unload both barrels of that gun. Say what you got to say.”

— Franklin Graham

37. “Evangelistic preaching is what Daddy does, I never thought I would.”

— Franklin Graham

38. “There was one thing I was never going to do – no way: preach at a crusade!”

— Franklin Graham