Quotes by Evangelists - Page 2

[Today] there is less emphasis on redemption by the blood of Christ.
Billy Graham
Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one ever bothered to ask!
Billy Graham
I fear that so often we Christians give the idea that the truth is fiction by the way we live and by the lack of dedication to the teachings of our Lord.
Billy Graham
Rebellion, waywardness, lack of discipline, confusion, and conflict prevent happy relationships within the home. But God is interested in your family, your marriage, your children. He shows us the ideals and the goals for the family.
Billy Graham
No clergyman however brilliant, no evangelist no matter how eloquent or compelling, can bring about the revival we need. Only the Holy Spirit can do this.
Billy Graham
Every manifestation of evil is the result of basic sin—sin that has remained unchanged since the moment it first entered the human race.
Billy Graham
In character-building and in living the Christian life, concentration is important. The [person] who has a general interest in everything usually isn’t too good at anything.
Billy Graham
Sometimes . . . we grow homesick for heaven. Many times in the midst of the sin, suffering, and sorrow of this life there is a tug at our soul. That is homesickness coupled with anticipation.
Billy Graham
God says that we can learn a great deal about Him just by observing nature. Because He has spoken through His universe, all men are without excuse for not believing in Him. This is why the Psalmist said: “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God” [Psalm 14:1 KJV].
Billy Graham
As humans we have two great spiritual needs. The first is forgiveness, which God has made possible by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins. Our second need, however, is for goodness, which God also made possible by sending the Holy Spirit to dwell within us.
Billy Graham
A godlikeness of character is the Christian’s proper heritage in this earthly walk.
Billy Graham
In Christ alone there is deliverance from man’s tortured thoughts and freedom from the sordid habits which are destroying so many people. Why does the Bible so clearly denounce drunkenness? Because it is an enemy of human life. Anything that is against a person’s welfare, God is against.
Billy Graham
Don’t let the acids of bitterness eat away inside. Learn the secret of trusting Christ in every circumstance.
Billy Graham
Discouragement is the opposite of faith. It is Satan’s device to thwart the work of God in your life.
Billy Graham
Grief comes with many losses. Whatever its cause, grief will come to all of us.
Billy Graham
If we believe in what God made and what God said, we will believe in the One whom God sent.
Billy Graham
Christians ought to have a different approach to business. As believers, we should view work as both service and a form of worship.
Charles W. Colson
To take up your cross means to associate yourself with Christ and to share His rejection. It means you take a stand for Christ even though people make fun of you, persecute you—or even kill you!
Billy Graham
We have tried to enthrone the false gods of money, fame, and human intelligence; but however we try, the end is always the same: “It is appointed unto men once to die” [Hebrews 9:27 KJV].
Billy Graham
I know that many of the things I have said from the Scriptures have offended some, but I cannot afford to tone down the message. As Paul said in 1 Corinthians 9:17, “I have a stewardship entrusted to me” (nasb), and that is to preach the pure and simple Gospel in whatever culture I am in.
Billy Graham
Faith isn’t pretending our problems don’t exist, nor is it simply blind optimism. Faith points us beyond our problems to the hope we have in Christ.
Billy Graham
Without Him our daily routine would become tiresome and tedious, a drudgery rather than a joy.
Billy Graham
Jesus demonstrated the importance of prayer by His own example. His whole ministry was saturated with prayer.
Billy Graham
The blood of Christ purchased the church.
Billy Graham
[The Holy Spirit] will remain with every believer right to the end. This thought has encouraged me a thousand times in these dark days when satanic forces are at work.
Billy Graham
Don’t rebel, but give God the opportunity to change your life and help you over the problems of youth, for they are many.
Billy Graham
One of the devil’s methods is to attack everyone . . . He knows that the Word of God is powerful, and he will try to keep you from it.
Billy Graham
was i leaving a life that, if snuffed out in a plane crash, would leave a sweet aroma representative of what matters most?
Andrew Palau
Daniel and his companions were tempted to forsake their godly heritage but they refused. They even faced a fiery furnace rather than compromise.
Billy Graham
There are many who sit in some churches week after week, year after year, without hearing the whole Gospel and knowing what it is to be born again. They hear a gospel which is incomplete, and consequently not good news at all.
Billy Graham
In the morning, prayer is the key that opens to usthe treasures of God’s mercies and blessings; in the evening, it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard.
Billy Graham
The devil is alive and kicking. But if you are in Christ and follow the rules of daily Bible study, prayer, and witnessing, he has no power over you.
Billy Graham
Our generation has become well versed in Christian terminology but is remiss in the actual practice of Christ’s principles and teachings. Hence, our greatest need today is not more Christianity but more true Christians.
Billy Graham
Truly, the world is in need of moral leadership . . .that teaches the difference between right and wrong and teaches us to forgive one another even as we are forgiven by our Father in heaven.
Billy Graham
Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.
Joyce Meyer
In our day many people are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, and emptiness have gripped much of our world.
Billy Graham
Satan has slaughtered, plundered, and bludgeoned his way through the centuries, manifesting himself in every false ideology, sect, and cult.
Billy Graham
Sin—plain, old-fashioned sin, the self-same sin which caused Adam’s downfall—is what we are all suffering from today, and it will do us far more harm than good to try to dress it up with a fancy, more attractive label.
Billy Graham
The Bible teaches that we have a Christian duty to help our neighbors in their time of need. We are called by God to bring the water of life for both soul and body. God created them both, and His purpose is to redeem them both.
Billy Graham
Only God knows the future and that we are to look to Him—not to the stars or the tea leaves or the lines on the palms of our hands—for our confidence in the future.
Billy Graham
The first hint of the Gospel comes from Genesis 3:15, this is the first promise of salvation.
Billy Graham
To many people, the mention of the blood of Christ is distasteful. However, on [a] visit to Mayo Clinic I noticed that at each reception desk there were pamphlets entitled A Gift of Life, urging people to donate blood.Anyone who has gone through surgery and looked up to seethe bag of blood dripping slowly into his veins,realizes with gratitude the life-giving property of blood.5
Billy Graham
Is it not arrogance or narrow-mindedness to claim that there is only one way of salvation or that the way we follow is the right way? I think not. After all, do we fault a pilot for being narrow-minded when he follows the instrument panel [while] landing in a rainstorm? No, we want him to remain narrowly focused!
Billy Graham
As a person finds God’s will for his or her life, matters of conscience can be handled with perception from the Holy Spirit.
Billy Graham
[God] wants to help you overcome the bitterness and anger that you feel, and He wants to encourage you . . . He knows that anger and depression will never help you deal with your problems—they only make them worse.
Billy Graham
We can be convicted of sin—we can pray and confess our sin—we can repent—but the real test is our willingness to obey.
Billy Graham
‎"I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Moody, save all you can.
Dwight L. Moody
Life is not a matter of dollars and cents, houses and lands, earning capacity and financial achievement. Greed must not be allowed to make man the slave of wealth.
Billy Graham
[Young people,] dress as attractively as you can. You are an aristocrat, a child of God.
Billy Graham
In some churches today and on some religious television programs, we see the attempt to make Christianity popular and pleasant. We have taken the cross away and substituted cushions.
Billy Graham
There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.
Billy Graham
When confronted with the world’s problems, we Christians say automatically: “Christianity is the answer.” But this is not true! It is the application of Christianity that is the answer.
Billy Graham
Sometimes we face “gray areas,” things that aren’t necessarily forbidden by the Bible but still may not belong in our lives.
Billy Graham
Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.
Joyce Meyer
Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.
Joyce Meyer
Double-mindedness means the faculty of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind and accepting both of them. We talk out of both corners of our mouths at once.
Billy Graham
I am counting totally and completely on the Lord Jesus Christ, and not on Billy Graham. I am not going to heaven because I’ve read the Bible, nor because I’ve preached to a lot of people. I’m going to heaven because of what Christ did.
Billy Graham
God has revealed Himself in the Book called the Bible.
Billy Graham
Money represents your time, your energy, your talents, your total personality converted into currency. We usually hold on to it tenaciously, yet it is uncertain in value and we cannot take it into the next world.
Billy Graham
The book of Revelation may be difficult and demanding to read, yet it is the only biblical book whose author promises a blessing to those who read it.
Billy Graham