Quotes by Evangelists - Page 26

The end will come with the return of Jesus Christ . . .That is why a Christian can be an optimist. That is why a Christian can smile in the midst of all that is happening . . .We know what the end will be: the triumph of the Lord Jesus Christ!
Billy Graham
There is no room for God’s Word in our culture, where our children are without reverence for God or faith in the Bible. There is no room for our Lord’s creed of purity and self-denial when the media sends forth a constant barrage of profanity and indecency and materialism.
Billy Graham
The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.
Joyce Meyer
All young people sin, and sin produces discord, repellent vibrations which rifle the concert of life until the strings are gutless and flat. The kicks soon lead to kickbacks.
Billy Graham
The heart of the Christian Gospel with its incarnation and atonement is in the cross and the resurrection. Jesus was born to die.
Billy Graham
A professor at the University of Michigan said to me: “As soon as we create life in a test tube, we won’t need God anymore.” I answered: “This happened once before when man ruled God out and proposed the Tower of Babel. It ended in frustration, confusion, and judgment.
Billy Graham
What could make a man stands taller than a newborn son?
Beth Moore
God does communicate with those who are willing to obey Him. He penetrates the dark silence with free, life-giving discoveries in nature, the human conscience, Scripture, and the Person of Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
We must learn to let the Word of God feed us and strengthen us in our faith in God its author, Christ its message, and the Holy Spirit its teacher.
Billy Graham
Christianity cannot expect the world to live the truths of the Gospel until it has the life that the Gospel provides in Christ. We Christians ought to be light and salt in the society in which we live.
Billy Graham
It is a source of encouragement that many homosexuals report being transformed through the power of the Gospel.
Billy Graham
Nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.
Billy Graham
Today is a brand new beginning for me!
Joyce Meyer
We have to be tuned to God. We will never be free from discouragement and despondency until we know and walk with the very fountainhead of joy.
Billy Graham
Until the Good News of Jesus Christ burst onto the human scene,the word love was understood mostly in terms of seeking one’s own advantage. Loving the unlovely was incomprehensible A loving God reaching down to sinful humans was unthinkable.
Billy Graham
Tell me what you think about money, and I will tell you what you think about God, for these two are closely related. A man’s heart is closer to his wallet than anything else.
Billy Graham
Have you ever seen a person who was receiving a blood transfusion? The blood was precious, life-giving, and certainly not repulsive. The blood of Christ may seem to be a grim and repulsive subject . . .[but] the blood of Christ is precious.
Billy Graham
You can't just know about God. You have to KNOW God!
Carman Licciardello
Man suppresses the truth, mixes it with error, and develops the religions of the world.
Billy Graham
You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.
Billy Graham
Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory
Joyce Meyer
Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age?
Billy Graham
Christians are expected to carry the marks of the Lord Jesus, not adapt to the fashionable counterculture driven by marketing traps.
Billy Graham
We will be judged according to the secret motives and the character of our work. If we have done our work for selfish motives or personal gain, even if the results looked noble to our friends and family, God knows our hearts.
Billy Graham
We have at our fingertips every pleasure that man is capable of enjoying, and man has abused every gift God ever gave him.
Billy Graham
Only because Jesus is God and we have confessed Him as Savior and Lord, can He bestow and we receive these benefits, this blessed assurance and hope (see Romans 10:9).
Billy Graham
If you are not careful you will find yourself actually in the employ of the devil. He is powerful, slick, crafty, wily, and subtle.
Billy Graham
Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have a job leading worship.
Billy Graham
Sinners, pray to a merciful God for forgiveness.
Billy Graham
Are you disappointed with society? If you are,I challenge you to take the first step. I challenge you to look at yourself.
Billy Graham
The strain of Christian service can result in sickness . . . I have known Christian workers who have risked their lives and health in serving the Lord.
Billy Graham
Our job in life is not to be successful, but to be faithful.
Billy Graham
[Jesus] asked [His followers] to count the cost carefully, lest they should turn back when they met with suffering and privation. He told His followers that the world would hate them.
Billy Graham
Living the Christian life means striving for holiness.
Billy Graham
It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person.
R.A. Torrey
We are only stewards of the world’s resources. They are not ours; they are God’s. When we find our security in Him, we can then give generously from what He has entrusted to us. This is our Christian duty.
Billy Graham
It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore but a supreme delight.
Gordon Lindsay
A Christian’s citizenship may be in heaven, but he has obligations as a citizen of earth. Both living with Christ and going to be with Him in death are greatly to be desired.
Billy Graham
Man can live about forty days without food about three days without water about eight minutes without air ... but only for one second without hope.
Hal Lindsey
We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are.
Joyce Meyer
Christians, saints of God, pray that the dew of heaven may fall on earth’s dry thirsty ground, and that righteousness may cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
Billy Graham
Among young people . . . drinking is for getting drunk. And many go on to become alcoholics.
Billy Graham
Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.
Billy Sunday
The underlying principle of all Satan’s tactics is deception. He is a crafty and clever camouflager.
Billy Graham
Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!
Billy Graham
Reading the Bible has a purifying effect upon the heart and mind. As you read, the Holy Spirit will enlighten the passages for you.
Billy Graham
We can possess nothing—no property and no person . . . It is God who owns everything, and we are but stewards of His property during the brief time we are on earth.
Billy Graham
Nowhere do the Scriptures tell us to seek results, nor do the Scriptures rebuke evangelists if the results are meager.
Billy Graham
The very ones whose social pressure cause you to compromise will despise you for it. They probably respect your convictions,and many of them wish they had the moral stamina to stand alone.May the Lord give you added courage to be a witness for Him,even in a hard place.
Billy Graham
A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution.
Billy Graham
[Our] minds are molded in many different ways— often in ways we are not aware of at the time. I am convinced that many things—the films we watch, the television we see, the music we listen to, the books we read—have a great effect on us.
Billy Graham
There is a great counterfeiter who adapts himself to every culture, even deceiving true believers at times. He doesn’t charge on the scene clothed in red and wearing a hideous mask but charms his way as an “angel of light.” This is how Satan operates.
Billy Graham
Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I’m really looking forward to that.
Billy Graham
Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.
Billy Graham
In heaven . . . the “communication gap” will be closed.
Billy Graham
The Bible says more about hell than about heaven.
Billy Graham
There is legitimate pleasure, which is not wrong, but we are not to become so preoccupied with its activities that it takes the place of God.
Billy Graham
Bitterness is anger gone sour, an attitude of deep discontent that poisons our souls and destroys our peace.
Billy Graham
Nothing seems to satisfy. Not politics, not education, not material goods. Some who refuse to turn their hearts toward God have created the New Age movement, with all of its aberrations. This is actually not new but only the latest attempt by man to place something other than Christ inside himself in a futile attempt to satisfy spiritual longings.
Billy Graham
Wow! you might actually have to act like a Christian sometimes!
Joyce Meyer