Quotes by Evangelists - Page 3

We are to feed the new nature on the Word of God constantly, and we are to starve the old nature, which craves the world and the flesh. We are told to “make not provision for the flesh” [Romans 13:14 KJV].
Billy Graham
Greed is an unreasonable or all-absorbing desire to acquire things or wealth. One test of greed is that it is never satisfied. Greed is repeatedly condemned in the Bible.
Billy Graham
Once for all God made complete and perfect provision for the cure of man’s sins; without the blood of Christ, it is indeed a fatal disease.
Billy Graham
There is always the exceptional child, but the average tells us that the child is largely what the home has made him.
Billy Graham
I have never met a person who didn’t have problems of some kind. This is why we need one another’s encouragement.
Billy Graham
Salvation is a gift. Godliness is the pursuit.
Beth Moore
Make it your goal to become more like Christ by refusing to let sin have its way, and pursuing instead that which is pure and good in the sight of God.
Billy Graham
God is love” means that He tries constantlyto block your route to destruction.
Billy Graham
Trees endure the hot sun and rainstorms by sending their roots down deeper. The adversity they face is eventually the source of great stability. The harshness of the elements surrounding them causes them to seek another source of life. They will one day come to the place that even the greatest of windstorms cannot affect their ability to produce fruit.
John Bevere
Instead of giving God His rightful place at the center of our lives, we have substituted the “god” of Self. Only Christ can change our hearts—and through us begin to change our world.
Billy Graham
There is nothing which indicates the inspiration of the Scriptures more than the factual and faithful record of men and their failures . . .These records are for our warning and instruction. They show us how sinful man needs God.
Billy Graham
I have found in my travels that those who keep heaven in view remain serene and cheerful in the darkest day. Forward-looking Christians remain optimistic and joyful, knowing that Christ someday will rule.
Billy Graham
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.
Dwight L. Moody
Some [young people] are taking pills called “heaven or hell” drugs, because you’re liable to experience either one.
Billy Graham
We are never to do anything of which we are not perfectly clear and certain. If you have a doubt about that particular thing that is bothering you, as to whether it is worldly or not, the best policy is “don’t do it.
Billy Graham
If we do not love one another we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.
Dwight L. Moody
The Bible teaches that man can undergo a radical spiritual and moral change that is brought about by God Himself.
Billy Graham
We cannot be satisfied with our goodness after beholding the holiness of God.
Billy Graham
Drunkenness is not a new vice. Its ravages have always been a scourge on the human race . . .Alcohol is a killer, a murderer.
Billy Graham
I have never known a man who received Christ and ever regretted it.
Billy Graham
In the struggle for righteousness, there is nothing more helpful than being passionately in tune with Christ through His Spirit and being passionately committed to doing His will. It has been said that in order to tune in to God’s voice, we must tune out this world’s noise.
Billy Graham
Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality of such a place.
Billy Graham
The devil’s overriding goal is to block God’s work— and if he can convince you God doesn’t really love you, or that you can’t fully trust Him, then he has blocked God’s work in your life and achieved his goal.
Billy Graham
The Bible says that as long as we are here on earth, we are strangers in a foreign land. There are enemies to be conquered before we return home. This world is not our home; our citizenship is in heaven.
Billy Graham
The sword of the Spirit—the Bible—is the weapon God has provided for us to use in this battle between truth and deception. Make it a priority to wield that sword skillfully.
Billy Graham
We must learn to live triumphantly amid the traumas and pressures we face daily.
Billy Graham
A transformed life is the greatest of all miracles. Every time a person is “born again” by repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ, the miracle of regeneration is performed.
Billy Graham
Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?
Leonard Ravenhill
Some Christians have an elastic conscience when it comes to their own foibles—and an ironbound conscience when it comes to the foibles of others.
Billy Graham
All of us are not subjected to the same weaknesses and temptations.To one, alcohol may be the temptation;to another, it may be impure thoughts and acts; to another, greed and covetousness; to another, criticism and an unloving attitude.
Billy Graham
What began as an apparently harmless pastime has ended up as a frightening, overpowering addiction or obsession.
Billy Graham
You can put a public school and university in the middle of every block of every city in America—but you will never keep America from rotting morally by mere intellectual education.
Billy Graham
Do others see something of Christ in your life? Do they see a “family resemblance” to Him by the way you live?
Billy Graham
How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war?
Billy Graham
I wanna be so consumed with the love of Christ that it flows into every aspect of my life.
Evangelist Jordan Wells
Ask God to reveal hypocrisy in your life—an inconsistency between what you profess and what you practice. Then ask God to bring you so close to Christ that you won’t have any desire to live an inconsistent, deceitful life.
Billy Graham
Jesus suffered more than any other person in human history.
Billy Graham
The Holy Spirit knows precisely the right timing in our lives. I always say, "Only the Holy Spirit knows when you are ready for what." In other words, the Spirit of the Lord is the only One Who knows what it will take to help you, and when you are ready to receive help.
Joyce Meyer
Someday all of us will give account of the way we have used the gifts God has given. The person to whom much has been given will find much required of him.
Billy Graham
You can trust Christ at this moment. The Bible says, “Now is the accepted time” [2 Corinthians 6:2 KJV]. Don’t put it off. Don’t say, “I’ll think about it.” Don’t say, “I’ll do it tomorrow.” Do it right now. At this moment, say yes to Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
You cannot pray for someone and hate them at the same time. Even if you are asking God to restrain their evil actions,you should also be praying that He will change their hearts. Only eternity will reveal the impact of our prayers for others.
Billy Graham
Satan is the master of the ultimate double-talk and sophistry. He calls evil good and continues to confuse men with his cleverly disguised untruths.
Billy Graham
The Bible says a great deal about entire families coming to Christ. Rahab the harlot . . . the Philippian jailer . . . and Cornelius, the Roman centurion. That could be true in your family too. You may be the one who could lead your family to Christ.
Billy Graham
Man has rejected the revelation of the Bible concerning the true and living God of his fathers, and he has substituted gods of his own making. In actuality modern man has decided to dethrone God and enthrone himself in all of his nuclear glory.
Billy Graham
I am engaged in spiritual warfare every day. I must never let down my guard—I must keep armed.
Billy Graham
God will never—never—lead you to do something that is contrary to His written Word, the Bible.
Billy Graham
I would say much of religious heresy is the result of a misunderstanding of the basic nature of God. And once we have a proper understanding of God, then usually most of the areas of our life coincide with who God is and what He desires for each one of us.
Josh McDowell
Sin pierced the very heart of God. God felt every piercing nail and spear thrust. God felt the burning sun. God felt the mocking derision and the body blows.
Billy Graham
The greatest need in the world today is for fully committed Christians.
Billy Graham
When the headlines get black and foreboding, the sale of alcohol and barbiturates rises in the country, as millions try to escape from the grim realities of [such] dangers.
Billy Graham
The Bible is intensely practical, and one of the reasons God gave it to us is so we’ll be better prepared to deal with life’s problems and temptations. All too often we respond to these in ways that don’t reflect Christ . . .when we do that, Satan is the winner and the cause of Christ suffers.
Billy Graham
It is entirely possible to be deeply sorry because of the devastation which sin has wrought in our lives—and yet not repent.
Billy Graham
Where there is truth and error there is always compromise. Within some churches there is a movement to reshape the Christian messageto make it more acceptable to man.
Billy Graham
The Bible clearly teaches that when we turn our backs on God and choose to disregard His moral laws there are inevitable consequences. Furthermore it is not God who is to blame for the consequences, but the person who has broken His law.
Billy Graham
Many of the wicked are receiving their wages now. Many Christians who may not be succeeding according to the world’s standards now, will reap great rewards in heaven.
Billy Graham
Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.
Beth Moore
Satan is masterful at using just enough of God’s truth to capture a person’s attention and then mix it with his devious potion that will lead [believers] astray.
Billy Graham
Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project.
Billy Graham
Time is running out. The seconds are ticking away toward midnight. The human race is about to take the fatal plunge . . . Is there any authority left? Is there a path we can follow? Can we find a code book that will give us the key to our dilemmas? We do have authoritative source material. It is found in the ancient and historic Book we call the Bible.
Billy Graham
America and Western Europe are on a moneymaking, pleasure-mad spree unparalleled in the history of the world. God is generally ignored or ridiculed. Church members in many cases are only halfhearted Christians. Judgment is coming.
Billy Graham