Quotes by Evangelists - Page 18

Not everyone Jesus tried to turn back from the brink of destruction responded—nor will they with us.
Billy Graham
You should no more allow sinful imaginations to accumulate in your mind and soul than you would let garbage collect in your living room.
Billy Graham
When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.
Billy Graham
Pray for wisdom to deal with whatever is worrying you. Pray that God will act to change the circumstances according to His will. He doesn’t always do what we want Him to—but He knows what’s best for us, and He can be trusted.
Billy Graham
We have arrived at the point where we are flippant about God. We tell jokes about Him. God’s name is used so often in profanity in the entertainment world that sometimes it is embarrassing to watch television.
Billy Graham
Prayer is more than a plea, it is a place where we must spend time if we are to learn its power.
Billy Graham
As the Constitution is the highest law of the land [in America], so the Bible is the highest law of God. For it is in the Bible that God sets forth His spiritual laws. It is in the Bible that God makes His enduring promises. It is in the Bible that God reveals the plan of redemption for the human race.
Billy Graham
Because of the brevity of life, the Bible warns that we should be prepared to meet God at all times.
Billy Graham
We live in a hostile world that constantly seeks to pull us away from God.
Billy Graham
An evangelist is like a newscaster on television or a journalist writing for a newspaper . . . except that the evangelist’s mission is to tell the Good News that never changes.
Billy Graham
God does not patch up the old life,or make certain repairs on the old life;He gives a new life, through the new birth.
Kathryn Kuhlman
Christ came into the world to save sinners, not good people, and your unworthiness is your greatest claim for His salvation.
Hannah Whitall Smith
It is unfair to attribute virtues beyond a person’s true character.
Billy Graham
Delighting in the Lord alters the desires.
Billy Graham
The essence of sin is self-will—placing ourselves at the center of our lives instead of Christ.
Billy Graham
The mourning of inadequacy is a weeping that catches the attention of God . . .The happiest day of my life was when I realized that my own ability, my own goodness, my own morality was insufficient in the sight of God; and I publicly and openly acknowledged my need of Christ.
Billy Graham
We’re heading for a world showdown, a worldwide confrontation. If we think we can solve our problems without God, then we’re living in a fool’s paradise.
Billy Graham
Prayer is powerful, but if our prayers are aimless, meaningless, and mingled with doubt, they will be of little hope to us.
Billy Graham
When you are unsure whether or not something is wrong, ask yourself these questions: Does this glorify God? Can I offer a prayer of thanksgiving for it? Does it draw me closer to Christ, or does it make me preoccupied with this world? Will it harm my health or hurt me in some other way? Will it cause someone else to stumble spiritually or morally? I have never forgotten what a wise Christian said to me many years ago: “When in doubt—don’t!
Billy Graham
Researchers have found that peer pressure exerted within a clique has caused every one of its members to experiment with drugs, to engage in murderous gang fights, to steal autos, and to violate the seventh commandment.
Billy Graham
Only Christ can meet the deepest needs of our world and our hearts. Christ alone can bring lasting peace—peace with God, peace among men and nations, and peace within our hearts. He transcends the political and social boundaries of our world.
Billy Graham
Throughout the world today there are people who are enduring cruelties and persecution because of their Christian faith. We must pray for them, and for ourselves, so that in our own dying hour God will give us grace to endure until the end, anticipating the certainty of His glory to come.
Billy Graham
If a brokenhearted mother could sing, I could not remain silent.
Beth Moore
Obedience is the master key to effectual prayer.
Billy Graham
The Christian life isn’t a playground but a battlefield.
Billy Graham
The best way to pray is to open the Bible and pray Scripture back to the Lord, claiming His promises and asking that He strengthen and guide [us] in obeying His Word.
Billy Graham
[As a young man] I sought thrills! I found them in Christ. I looked for something that would bring perfect joy! I found it in Christ. I looked for something that would bring pleasure and that would satisfy the deepest longing of my heart! I found it in Christ. And my life has never been the same.
Billy Graham
Every area of our lives is to be under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. And that means the searchlight of God’s Word must penetrate every corner of our lives.
Billy Graham
The world thinks peace would come if everyone made a lot of money, but people haven’t found peace in possessions. They have thought the world would have peace if all arms were destroyed. Yet Cain killed Abel without a handgun. It is man’s heart that is the problem.
Billy Graham
The evangelist cannot bring conviction of sin, righteousness, or judgment; that is the Spirit’s work. They cannot convert anyone; that is the Spirit’s work.
Billy Graham
The wheels of [God’s] mercy and justice move quietly and silently, but they do move.
Billy Graham
The ground is level at the foot of the cross.
Billy Graham
Only God can thwart the plans of Satan and his legions.
Billy Graham
Psalms teaches us how to relate to God, and Proverbs teaches us how to relate to others.
Billy Graham
By faith I accepted Him for what He claimed to be, the Son of the Living God. That simple decision changed my life—and I have seen it change the lives of countless others across the world.
Billy Graham
Only God knows when the alarm will sound, ending the work and ministry of evangelism as we have known it.
Billy Graham
People from all walks of life are searching for answers to life’s problems. I believe the Bible has the answer to man’s deepest needs.
Billy Graham
The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.
Dwight L. Moody
Sometimes I feel so helpless and inadequate, and wonder if I have done enough to make the Gospel clear. But I also know that only the Holy Spirit can open others’ eyes to the truth.
Billy Graham
Man himself is helpless to detach himself from the gnawing guilt of a heart weighed down with the guilt of sin. But where man has failed, God has succeeded.
Billy Graham
Some of the most miserable people I have ever met have been people who are very popular with the public, but down inside are empty and miserable.
Billy Graham
[God] created us free to choose how we would live . . . but leaves us free to pursue our own ends with tragic, natural consequences.
Billy Graham
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
Astrology can never give you the answers to life’s deepest questions—especially where you will spend eternity. Commit your life to Christ. It will give you joyous confidence that your future is securely in His hands—tomorrow and forever.
Billy Graham
God longs for men to be saved. God is at work to get men to stop their downward plunge in sin.
Billy Graham
The church isn’t just a particular building or congregation but the spiritual fellowship of all who belong to Jesus Christ. If we belong to Christ, we also belong to each other.
Billy Graham
When God's goodness touches our lives, it's called "grace.
James Randall Robison
A marriage based only on physical attraction or romantic emotions is almost certainly doomed to failure right from the start.
Billy Graham
I don’t think people can live without hope. What oxygen is to the lungs, hope is to our survival in this world. And the Bible is filled with hope.
Billy Graham
Character is what a man is in the dark
Dwight L. Moody
Nations and civilizations rise, flourish for a time, and then decay. Eventually each comes to an end. This, because of sin, is the decree of history and the way of life on this planet.
Billy Graham
Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears. Topics: Prayer, MeditationI am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood. Topics: Salvation, AtonementWhen the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end. Topics: Satan, PrayerGod's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything. Topics: ScriptureDo not study commentaries, lesson helps or other books about the Bible: study the Bible itself. Do not study about the Bible, study the Bible. The Bible is the Word of God, and only the Bible is the Word of God. Topics: The BibleAll that God is, and all that God has, is at the disposal of prayer. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do everything, prayer is omnipotent.
R.A. Torrey
When our minds are on Christ, Satan has little room to maneuver.
Billy Graham
[Christians] are commanded to love our neighbors, and the first step in doing this is to show a watching world that Christ reigns within us.
Billy Graham
The Word does not change. The Dead Sea scrolls, archeology, modern science—they do not change the Bible; they confirm it.
Billy Graham
Satan is the sower of compromise—leaving a bit of God’s truth into the dirty rags of sin. Satan is the commander in deceit, Satan is the ringleader in rebellion against the faithful.Satan is the sly serpent of temptation.Satan is the false hope of security.Satan is the great pretender.Satan is the great spoiler of everything good.And Satan wants to destroy you.
Billy Graham
What a comfort it was for me to know that no matter where I was in the world, my mother was praying for me.
Billy Graham
There are those who have made their fortunes on other people’s misfortune. The Bible never promised that life would be fair.
Billy Graham
We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.
Billy Graham
Humanity wants comfort in its sorrow, light in its darkness, peace in its turmoil, rest in its weariness, and healing in its sickness and diseases: The Gospel gives all of this to us.
Billy Graham