Quotes by Evangelists - Page 11

How often do we lie simply because we are trying to build ourselves up in the eyes of others? How often do we gossip because we want to appear “in the know,”or because we are trying to make ourselves appear better than someone else? The Bible's command is clear: [“Have regard for good things in the sight of all men” (Romans 12:17 NKJV)].
Billy Graham
From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life.
Billy Graham
The Bible is God’s book of promises, and, unlike the books of men, it does not change or get out of date.
Billy Graham
With the breakdown of discipline in the home and with every source of amusement and instruction pouring poison into daily life, it is not to be wondered that the minds of people are ready to receive anything but the truth and that they are ready to believe lies and ultimately the lie.
Billy Graham
We are living in a topsy-turvy world, where all is confusion. But you may be sure that it is confusion with a plan—Satan’s plan!
Billy Graham
What stirs God most is not physical suffering but sin. All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.
Billy Graham
The Spirit goes ahead of us when we witness— preparing the way, giving us the words, and granting us courage.
Billy Graham
Sometimes it is difficult to differentiate the Christian from the man of the world. In America, for example, churchgoing has become popular, but churchgoing may not necessarily be accompanied by genuine depth in prayer and Bible study or a change in lifestyle.
Billy Graham
The Bible opens with a tragedy and ends in a triumph.
Billy Graham
There is no use trying to do Church work without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good work without love, but God's work cannot be done without love.
Dwight L. Moody
Our world today desperately hungers for hope, and yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus!
Billy Graham
The Bible teaches there is hell for every person who willingly and knowingly rejects Christ as Lord and Savior. Many passages could be quoted to support that fact.
Billy Graham
[The Lord] does go with us through our sufferings, and He awaits us as we emerge on the other side of the tunnel of testing—into the light of His glorious presence to live with Him forever!
Billy Graham
The study [of Revelation] instructs us not only about the storms to come, but how to endure and come through them with great victory.
Billy Graham
Death is not the end of the road—it is merely a gateway to eternal life beyond the grave.
Billy Graham
Evangelism is more than simply encouraging decisions for Christ. It is urging people to become disciples—followers—of Jesus Christ. As such, the evangelist has a responsibility to make growth in discipleship possible for those who come to faith under his ministry.
Billy Graham
Often our self-esteem is tied to our work. In our culture, men and women often define themselves by the jobs they hold . . . But a person’s job tells you nothing about a person’s character or value.
Billy Graham
Down through the ages man’s heart has remained unchanged. Whatever the color of his skin, whatever his cultural or ethnic background, he needs the Gospel of Christ.
Billy Graham
Learn to shut out the distractions that keep you from truly worshiping God.
Billy Graham
Life is sacred and given to us by God; for that reason we must never condone the deliberate, unnatural taking of life.
Billy Graham
How do we get our values so mixed up? We look for shortcuts to happiness. Our lust for immediate pleasure prompts us to think of evil as good.
Billy Graham
The central theme of the Bible is salvation, and the central personality of the Bible is Christ.
Billy Graham
[Angels] guide, comfort, and provide for the people of God in the midst of suffering and persecution.
Billy Graham
The devil is the god of this world and he has blinded our eyes.
Billy Graham
Instead of manipulating [people] for our own purposes, we’d help them achieve what is best for them. We’d also try to see life through their eyes. Treat others the way you would want them to treat you.
Billy Graham
Help me to work and pray Help me to live each day That all I do may say Thy kingdom come.
A.B. Simpson
In many homes and among so-called educated people—it has become fashionable to joke about the Bible and to regard it more as a dust-catcher than as the living Word of God.
Billy Graham
[God] holds in His omnipotent hand the priceless, precious, eternal gift of salvation, and He bids you to take it without money and without price.
Billy Graham
If I take care of my character my reputation will take care of itself.
D L Moody
We have not yet learned that we are more powerful on our knees than behind the most powerful weapons that can be developed.
Billy Graham
We have made Christianity too easy.
Billy Graham
Can the sin of one or a few cause suffering for many? The answer, of course, is yes, for no sin is isolated in the life of the sinner. It spreads like poison gas into every available crevice.
Billy Graham
Even in the darkest moment, before death snatches man’s last breath, God is willing to save a lost soul.
Billy Graham
One of the Christian’s responsibilities in following Christ is to have a new attitude toward work. So many young people want Christ without responsibility . . . whatever work a Christian does . . . he should do his best.
Billy Graham
If God did not reveal himself with word-by-wordprecision, then He has placed the revelation oftruth into the incompetent hands of fallen man.That would prove hopelessly imbecilic. He whorevealed Himself with exactness in “natural” creationchose the precise words, sentences and paragraphs to compile one Book in which we have His perfect Word.
Ron Susek
Persecution, whether it is physical, social, or mental, is one of the worst types of pain, but those who persecute us are to be the objects of our prayers.
Billy Graham
The mind is the devil’s favorite avenue of attack.
Billy Graham
Worldliness doesn’t fall like an avalanche upon a person and sweep him or her away. It is the steady drip, drip, drip of the water that wears away the stone. The world is exerting a steady pressure on us every day. Most of us would go down under it, if it weren’t for the Holy Spirit who lives inside us, and holds us up, and keeps us.
Billy Graham
There is less teaching about sin, and very little warning of judgment.
Billy Graham
[While] disappointment and failure aren’t identical, they often occur together, and both can hold us back from God’s best for our lives.
Billy Graham
There are thousands of lonely people who carry heavy and difficult burdens of grief, anxiety, pain, and disappointment; but the loneliest of all is one whose life is steeped in sin.
Billy Graham
Home was a refuge for me, a place I could truly relax.
Billy Graham
When Christ’s love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run.
Billy Graham
Sin is a revolt against God.
Billy Graham
We can’t flee from temptation in our own strength—but God will give us the strength we need, if we’ll only seek it. A friend of mine says, “When the devil knocks, I just send Jesus to the door!
Billy Graham
The world is not a permanent home, it is only a temporary dwelling.
Billy Graham
I get many letters every day from people who got married because they wanted their own selfish needs satisfied, and have only later come to realize that this does not work.
Billy Graham
The Charter of the United Nations said in its preamble: “We the people determined to save succeeding generations from war . . .” Can the United Nations save the world from war? The answer is No! It was conceived and created by statesmen who knew little of the significance of the biblical concept of history and the nature of man. When the perspective is wrong, the whole viewpoint will be wrong.
Billy Graham
Prayer is not just asking. It is listening for God’s orders.
Billy Graham
Faith makes all things possible. Love makes them easy.
Dwight L. Moody
Death for [a Christian] is no accident. With God there are no accidents, no tragedies, and no catastrophes as far as His children are concerned.
Billy Graham
God can take anything that happens to us—even bad things—and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person—if we will let Him.
Billy Graham
Often it takes that “knife in our heart” to drive us to Him. Our faith, our very lives, depend on God, and when we enter the valley of grief, we need His help or we will never climb another mountain.
Billy Graham
If we are going to touch the people of our communities, we too must know their sorrows, feel for them in their temptations, stand with them in their heartbreaks. Jesus Christ entered into the arena of our troubles, and He wept with them that wept and rejoiced with them that rejoiced.
Billy Graham
Be very sure that you do not deliberately place yourself in a position to be tempted.
Billy Graham
When you pick up the cross of unpopularity, wherever you may be, you will find God’s grace is there, more than sufficient to meet your every need.
Billy Graham
Part of the human makeup which distinguishes man from other creatures is his ability to reason and make moral decisions. Man is a free moral agent.
Billy Graham
The most important events in human history were the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks. You're telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.
Charles W. Colson
Every graveyard and every cemetery testify that the Bible is true.
Billy Graham