Quotes by Evangelists - Page 14

The Bible will always be full of things you cannot understand, as long as you will not live according to those you can understand.
Billy Sunday
Integrity means that we are trustworthy and dependable, and our character is above reproach.
Billy Graham
Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor.
Beth Moore
Christians at work in the world are the only real spiritual light in the midst of great spiritual darkness. This places a tremendous responsibility on all of us.
Billy Graham
The Scripture makes it clear that this planet would already be a literal hell on earth were it not for the presence of the Holy Spirit in the world.
Billy Graham
All of Christianity is based on a person—Jesus Christ. Christ Himself is the embodiment of the Gospel.
Billy Graham
Never forget that the resurrection of Christ is in many ways the central event of all history.
Billy Graham
I am in favor of hanging the Ten Commandments in every schoolroom in the country so young people can know the difference between right and wrong. They don’t know the difference and we’re seeing the evidence of that all around us every day.
Billy Graham
There are countless opportunities to comfort others, not only in the loss of a loved one, but also in the daily distress that so often creeps into our lives.
Billy Graham
No Christian has the right to go around wringing his hands, wondering what we are to do in the face of the present world situation. The Scripture says that in the midst of persecution, confusion, wars, and rumors of wars, we are to comfort one another with the knowledge that Jesus Christ is coming back in triumph, glory, and majesty.
Billy Graham
We fail to prevail with unconverted men because of our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.
John R. Mott
All over the world God is opening doors of opportunity, making it possible for us to take the Gospel to millions who have never heard of Christ.
Billy Graham
Our minds must be set always to seek the will of the Lord. Following the progressive discipline revealed through the Bible will result in a walk of obedience to God.
Billy Graham
Confrontation is the special business of young people. They confront their parents, peers, society, law enforcement officers, and themselves, but primarily they confront God.
Billy Graham
Some, who doubt that the Bible is the true Word of God, doubt it because they are unwilling to ascribe to God anything they cannot themselves achieve.
Billy Graham
To know the will of God is the highest of all wisdom. Living in the center of God’s will rules out all falseness of religion and puts the stamp of true sincerity upon our service to God.
Billy Graham
The Bible teaches that there will be a famine of the Word of God in the last days . . . spiritual starvation leads to spiritual death.
Billy Graham
There is no point of space, whether inside or outside the bounds of creation, where God is not present. That is why when we ask the question, “Who’s in control?” we can answer without equivocation, “God is!
Billy Graham
Success or failure cannot be measured by any human standard.
Billy Graham
The grace of God has been tested in the crucible of human experience, and has been found to be more than an equal for the problems and sins of humanity.
Billy Graham
Anger makes us lash out at others, destroying relationships and revealing our true nature. The history of the human race is largely the history of its anger.
Billy Graham
Our world needs to be touched by Christians who are Spirit-filled, Spirit-led, and Spirit-empowered.
Billy Graham
Scripture indicates that deception, false religions, and apostasy lead to war, and that war in turn leads to famine and pestilence.
Billy Graham
The way in which we react to hurts and disappointments influences the shaping of our personalities.
Billy Graham
The great flaw in the American economic system has finally been revealed: an unrealistic faith in the power of prosperity rather than in the ultimate power and benevolence of God.
Billy Graham
When her daughter was frightened of a thunderstorm, the author pointed out the verse which declares the Heavens reveal the glory of God. When another storm occurred, her daughter ran to the window. "Mommy, God's really showing off today!
Beth Moore
Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God’s Word.
Billy Graham
No church is perfect, but don’t let that discourage you. Someone has said that if you ever find one that is, it will stop being perfect the minute you join!
Billy Graham
Ask [God] to help you reflect Christ as you grow older, instead of turning sour or grumpy.
Billy Graham
[God the Spirit] will never lead you contrary to the Word of God. I hear people saying, “The Lord led me to do this . . .” I am always a little suspicious unless what the Lord has said is in keeping with His Word.
Billy Graham
Statistics indicate that the church is rapidly losing in the population explosion. There are fewer Christians per capita every day.
Billy Graham
What a blessing it is for parents to believe in their children.
Billy Graham
The vitality [of] the Bible [is] exhibited in every generation . . .Its power to transform lives is its best apologetic.
Billy Graham
Though the cross repels, it also attracts. It possesses a magnetic quality.
Billy Graham
Sin lies at the heart of chaotic world conditions as we now know them and as they have existed through the centuries.
Billy Graham
We can trust the Bible because it points us to the most important events in human history: the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
I listened to a discussion of religious leaders on how to communicate the Gospel. Not once did I hear them mention prayer. And yet I know of scores of churches that win many converts each year by prayer alone.
Billy Graham
We shouldn’t think about ourselves and how weak we are. Instead, we should think about God and how strong He is.
Billy Graham
A seminary professor I once knew told his students, “Never preach about hell without tears in your eyes.
Billy Graham
Forgiveness is one of the most beautiful words in the human vocabulary. How much pain and unhappy consequences could be avoided if we all learned the meaning of this word!
Billy Graham
Every day has exactly 1,440 minutes; can’t you find even ten of them to be with your heavenly Father? Doesn’t God deserve the best minutes of your day?
Billy Graham
In me is working a power stronger than every other power. The life that is in me is a thousand times bigger than I am outside.
Smith Wigglesworth
A baby isn’t meant to stay a baby forever, and neither is a new Christian.
Billy Graham
Jesus used the carefree attitude of the birds to underscore the fact that worrying is unnatural. I am learning in my own life, day by day, to keep my mind centered on Christ.
Billy Graham
The human race has the power right now to destroy itself. Jesus Christ is going to save us from ourselves.
Billy Graham
Men cannot help that it is their nature to respond to the lewd, the salacious, and the vile. They will have difficulty doing otherwise until they are born again.
Billy Graham
Our personalities, our intelligence, and our capabilities are gifts from [God’s] own bountiful hand. If we divert their use for our own profit, we become guilty of selfishness.
Billy Graham
The Bible nowhere teaches that the church will ultimately convert the whole world to Jesus Christ. There has never been a generation in history, nor will there ever be generation, in which the majority of the people will believe in Christ.
Billy Graham
The Bible takes the word home with all of its tender associations and sacred memories, and applies it to the hereafter and tells us that heaven is home.
Billy Graham
The Bible teaches that you have three enemies . . . the devil . . . the world . . . the flesh.
Billy Graham
[Integrity] means a person is the same on the inside as he or she claims to be on the outside. He is the same person alone in a hotel room a thousand miles from home as he is at work or in his community or with his family. A man of integrity can be trusted.
Billy Graham
If there are any tears shed in heaven, they will be over the fact that we prayed so little.
Billy Graham
Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in thesimple and beautiful things around him.
Billy Graham
Prayer shouldn’t be a burden but a privilege—God wants our fellowship.
Billy Graham
Acknowledge that there is a defect in human nature, a built-in waywardness that comes from man’s rebellion against God.
Billy Graham
It is impossible to be both selfish and happy
Joyce Meyer
As Christians we are constantly bombarded with attitudes and values which are contrary to biblical teaching.
Billy Graham
For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world.
Billy Graham
We need to know what the Bible teaches about right and wrong. Every day we are battered by messages—from the media, advertising, entertainment, celebrities, even our friends—with one underlying theme: “Live for yourself.
Billy Graham
If God gives you responsibility for aging parents, seek what is best for them, not what is most convenient for you. And keep contact with them!
Billy Graham