Quotes by Evangelists - Page 25

God has given me a lifeboat and said... 'Moody save all you can
Dwight L. Moody
Evil is real—but so is God’s power and love.
Billy Graham
It is far easier to live an excellent life among your friends, when you are putting your best foot forward and are conscious of public opinion, than it is to live for Christ in your home.
Billy Graham
The only place we can find a clear, i unmistakable message is in the Word of God [the Bible].
Billy Graham
Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.
Joyce Meyer
From one end of the Bible to the other, God assures us that He will never go back on His promises.
Billy Graham
The Bible . . . is the only Book that offers man a redemption and points the way out of his dilemmas. It is our one sure guide in an unsure world.
Billy Graham
We have a mandate to speak out against “the sin that so easily entangles” [Hebrews 12:1 NIV]; for though we are not of the world, we are still in it.
Billy Graham
God has prescribed the remedy for the spiritual sickness of the human race. The solution is personal faith and commitment to Jesus Christ . . .if we deliberately refuse it, we must suffer the horrible consequences.
Billy Graham
The Christian is not to be disturbed by thechaos, violence, strife, bloodshed, and threat of war that fill the pages of our daily newspapers. We know that these things are the consequences of man’s sin and greed. Every day as I read my newspaper I say: “The Bible is true.
Billy Graham
Listen, I'm against sin. I'll kick it as long as I've got a foot, I'll fight it as long as I've got a fist, I've butt it as long as I've got a head, and I'll bite it as long as I've got a tooth. And when I'm old, fistless, footless, and toothless, I'll gum it till I go home to glory and it goes home to perdition.
Billy Sunday
I am convinced that when a man sincerely searches for God with all his heart, God will reveal Himself in some way.
Billy Graham
I’m afraid many young people today have very romantic ideas about marriage—ideas that do not necessarily reflect the truth . . .Romantic feelings alone are not enough when the problems and strains come—as they inevitably do.
Billy Graham
Religion can be anything! But true Christianity is God coming to man in a personal relationship.
Billy Graham
The Holy Spirit can rejuvenate a tired Christian, captivate an indifferent believer, and empower a dry church.
Billy Graham
Most of us know about God, but that is quite different from knowing God.
Billy Graham
If we who have the Holy Spirit living and working within us falter and fail, what hope is there for the rest of the world?
Billy Graham
If we don’t know who we are, we’ll never know how we ought to live.
Billy Graham
When our faith becomes nothing more than a series of rules and regulations, joy flees and our love for Christ grows cold.
Billy Graham
The Bible is to be our basis of authority. We must “by faith” accept [Jesus] as the Son of the living God. This sounds narrow and intolerant, and in a sense it is!
Billy Graham
Our popular music talks constantly about love, and yet divorce rates skyrocket.
Billy Graham
Science is learning to control everything but man.
Billy Graham
What you do with Christ here and now decides where you shall spend eternity.
Billy Graham
Any work done by a follower of Christ to the glory of God is “gold, silver, precious stones.” But if any follower of Christ works with any self-interest or personal ambition involved, it will be “wood, hay, and stubble” and will be burned.
Billy Graham
Jesus does not allow us to be neutral about Him. Jesus demands that we decide about Him.
Billy Graham
There will come a time when people hungering for the truth will seek it where it is supposedly disseminated, such as books and churches, but they will not hear the Word of the Lord. Instead of receiving a message to satisfy their spiritual longings, they will hear a sermon on some current political or social problem, or a sermonette on art and literature. And so they wander from one place to another, going from hope to despair, and eventually giving up.
Billy Graham
Honesty means exactly what it says. We are honest and trustworthy in all our dealings. People can trust our word, because we refuse to lie or shade the truth.
Billy Graham
We need to be on guard against greed . . . above all we need to make sure our lives are centered in Christ and not things.
Billy Graham
Often, we try to tell God what we want Him to do—but ask Him to help you guard against this, and to seek His will instead of your own. Pray and ask God to guide you.
Billy Graham
Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.
Joyce Meyer
The church holds the key to revival. It is within our grasp.
Billy Graham
[Mankind has] allowed worldly desires and pleasures to fill the heart and mind. Whatever the sin, we need to repent and turn to Jesus Christ in faith for forgiveness and new life.
Billy Graham
Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have
Joyce Meyer
Philosophically, war is an extension of man’s struggle with sin and evil in the world.
Billy Graham
It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put [Jesus] on the cross—it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer his death.
Billy Graham
Nations rise, they flourish for a time, and then they decline. Eventually every empire comes to an end; not even the greatest can last forever.
Billy Graham
As I read the Bible, I seem to find holiness to be [Christ’s] supreme attribute.
Billy Graham
Jesus Christ opened heaven’s door for us by His death on the cross.
Billy Graham
People of the West have various forms of democracy based on a belief in God as well as on a general acceptance of moral law. However, in practice we are beginning to resemble the Marxists, who have little respect for moral law or religion.
Billy Graham
The Bible sees greed as a form of idolatry, because a greedy person worships things instead of God. Greed and envy have their roots in selfishness.
Billy Graham
The world does need changing, society needs changing, the nation needs changing, but we never will change it until we ourselves are changed.
Billy Graham
Many Christian leaders are willing to give up some of the teachings of the Bible in order to harmonize Christianity with the other religions.
Billy Graham
Christianity has no shrines to visit, no dusty remains to venerate, no tombs at which to worship.
Billy Graham
God says it is our duty as Christians to take care of widows and orphans and to help the poor within the Christian society . . .And Jesus said, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me” Matthew 25:40 KJV].
Billy Graham
Children respect discipline. They want to be guided. It gives them a sense of belonging, a sense of security.
Billy Graham
If the church is acceptable to this present ageand is not suffering reproach, then it is not the true church that our Lord founded.
Billy Graham
Christianity is not a spectator sport, it’s something in which we become totally involved.
Billy Graham
Surrendering to Christ is like signing your name to a blank check and letting the Lord put in the amount.
Billy Graham
We are to renounce the evil influence of the world, the flesh, and the devil. There can be no parleying, bargaining, compromise, or hesitation. Christ demands total loyalty.
Billy Graham
We don’t need to be crippled any longer by the disease of sin—because God has provided the cure.
Billy Graham
We were created to live a life of prayer.
Billy Graham
Make the Bible part of your daily life, and ask God to engrave its truths on your soul.
Billy Graham
The more familiar acquaintance we have with God the more do we partake of him. He that passes by the fire may have some gleams of heat, but he that stands by it has his colour changed. It is not possible that a man should have any long conference with God and be no whit affected. If we are strangers to God it is no wonder that our faces become earthy.
William Bramwell
A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.
Leonard Ravenhill
You can enjoy anything if you make up your mind to.
Joyce Meyer
Some people think that going to church on Sunday and owning a dust-covered Bible makes a person a Christian. That is not true. A Christian is one in whom Christ dwells, and the person’s life will give evidence of this.
Billy Graham
Death of the righteous . . . is not to be feared or shunned. It is the shadowed threshold to the palace of God.
Billy Graham
You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.
Billy Graham
God’s star promised peace to the whole world . . .too often man’s synthetic stars bring fear and anxiety. Our gadget-filled paradise, suspended in a hell of international insecurity, certainly does not offer us the happiness of which the last century dreamed. But there is still a star in the sky.
Billy Graham
There are those today that say we must do as others do, that we must conform to the world [to win it], that we must swim with the tide, that we must move with the crowd. But the believer should say, “No.
Billy Graham