Quotes by Evangelists - Page 31

The Gospel shows people their wounds and bestows on them love. It shows them their bondage and supplies the hammerto knock away their chains. It shows them their nakedness and provides them the garments of purity. It shows them their poverty and pours into their lives the wealth of heaven. It shows them their sins and points them to the Savior.
Billy Graham
Some of the most radiant Christians I have ever met were “wheelchair” saints. May God give you grace to “triumph in affliction.
Billy Graham
Many people say they do not fear death, but the process of dying. It’s not the destination, but the trip that they dread.
Billy Graham
Don’t waste your life on things that have no eternal value.
Billy Graham
I look upon it as a lost day when I have not had a good time over the Word of God.
Billy Graham
Conscience is the detective that watches the direction of our steps and decries every conscious transgression.
Billy Graham
Jesus, by example, tells us that every true leader should be a helper, a servant, or even a bondslave. This is a command, not a suggestion, and applies with special force to leaders.
Billy Graham
The secret strength of a nation is found in the faith that abides in the hearts and homes of the country.
Billy Graham
Death for the Christian is the doorway to heaven’s glory. Because of Christ’s resurrection we can joyously say with Paul, “Where, O death, is your victory?” [1 Corinthians 15:55 NIV].
Billy Graham
We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.It’s called sin.
Billy Graham
Satan is the illusive manipulator. He prances and dances and drinks in the adulation of his worshippers as he glimmers and shimmers, displaying all that glitters and all that attracts the shallowness of man.
Billy Graham
Anxiety and fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow.
Billy Graham
If you know Christ, you don’t need to beg for the Holy Spirit to come into your life; He is already there—whether you “feel” His presence or not. Don’t confuse the Holy Spirit with an emotional feeling or a particular type of spiritual experience.
Billy Graham
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord.
Luke
When we use the word “sin,” we usually think of our misdeeds—actions or habits we know are wrong. But those are specific sins, and they are the result of sin, the deeper spiritual disease that infects our souls. Sin is the cause; sins are the effect.Sin is the tree; sins are the fruit. Sin is the disease; sins are the symptoms.
Billy Graham
Pleasures are the things that appeal to our flesh and to our lust. But joy is something else. Joy runs deep.
Billy Graham
It is a time for soul-searching, a time to see if our anchor holds.
Billy Graham
[The Bible] has survived attack of every kind. Neither barbaric vandalism nor civilized scholarship has touched it. Neither the burning of fire nor the laughter of skepticism has accomplished its annihilation. Through the many dark ages of man, its glorious promises have survived unchanged.
Billy Graham
Do young people have the moral stamina to carry through in case of economic depression? . . . The real tests of the [younger] generations have not yet come, but they are on their way!
Billy Graham
We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.
Beth Moore
God speaks to us through our conscience. This may be a “still small voice” that will not let us go until we do what we know is right . . .we must never silence that inner voice—[but] check what we think it is saying against the Scriptures.
Billy Graham
The Bible teaches that whether we are saved or lost, there is conscious and everlasting existence of the soul and personality.
Billy Graham
Being a Christian does not exempt us from tough training, which may mean suffering. If the training were easy, we would not be prepared for the tough days ahead.
Billy Graham
It is strange that the world accepts enthusiasm in every realm but the spiritual.
Billy Graham
Prayer is speaking to God— but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.
Billy Graham
Our magazine covers frequently feature the immoral, the perverted, the psychologically sick. Sin is “in.” People don’t like to be told they are sinners.
Billy Graham
Our lives speak loudly to those around us, especially the children in our home.
Billy Graham
God is the Ruler of His mighty creation. There is no reason to despair, because He holds in His hands the whole world, while His Spirit is able to fill the void in man’s heart.
Billy Graham
Our emotions can lie to us, and we need to counter our emotions with truth.
Billy Graham
A muscle becomes weak if it is not used. To become strong, a muscle must push against something.
Billy Graham
One can approach the Bible with a cold, rationalistic attitude, or one can do so with reverence and the desire to hear God speak.
Billy Graham
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.
Billy Graham
Before Satan there was no sin, and before sin there was no pain.
Billy Graham
One of the worst things we can do is allow our children to grow up thinking they don’t need to keep any rules. A spoiled child becomes a spoiled adult.
Billy Graham
Let [Christ] transform your life so that you will have a glow on your face, a spring in your step, and joy in your soul.
Billy Graham
What you are as a single person, you will be as a married person, only to a greater degree. Any negative character trait will be intensified in a marriage relationship, because you will feel free to let your guard down -- that person has committed himself to you and you no longer have to worry about scaring him off.
Josh McDowell
The Bible is a living Book and can be trusted for its advice and direction and knowledge of God.
Billy Graham
There may have been a time when pride was the very center of your life. You had ambitious thoughts of yourself, your powers, desires, and aims; but now that will begin to change . . . you have been born again.
Billy Graham
The Bible is the Word of God: supernatural in origin, eternal in duration, inexpressible in valor, infinite in scope, regenerative in power, infallible in authority, universal in interest, personal in application, inspired in totality. Read it through, write it down, pray it in, work it out, and then pass it on. Truly it is the Word of God. It brings into man the personality of God; it changes the man until he becomes the epistle of God. It transforms his mind, changes his character, takes him on from grace to grace, and gives him an inheritance in the Spirit. God comes in, dwells in, walks in, talks through, and sups with him.
Smith Wigglesworth
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Billy Graham
I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.
Billy Graham
Heaven is full of answers for which nobody ever bothered to ask.
Billy Graham
The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing circumstances and the most bitter environment. It is the kind of happiness that grins when things go wrong and smiles through the tears. The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will deeply root inside us and give us inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need of no outward stimulas.
Billy Graham
Becoming “new” in Christ is a wonderful beginning, but it isn’t the end of pain or problems in our lives. It is the beginning of our facing up to them. Being a Christian involves a lifetime of hard work, dedicated study, and difficult decisions.
Billy Graham
Many homes are on the rocks today because God has been left out of the domestic picture. With the clash of personalities in a domestic pattern, there must be an integrating force, and the living God is that Force!
Billy Graham
Apart from religious influence, the family is the most important unit of society.
Billy Graham
Man boasts of his nobility, his ideals, and his progress. Man’s goal is imitation, not redemption.
Billy Graham
The fiercest storm is taking place in some of our churches—the unbelief and disobedience of God’s Word.
Billy Graham
God and God’s Word are inseparable.
Billy Graham
Before asking God’s forgiveness there is something important you must do. You must repent, that is, turn from the behavior and lifestyle that [leads to sin].
Billy Graham
What does repentance mean? It means to change—to change your mind, change the way that you’re living—and to determine that with God’s help you will live for Christ.
Billy Graham
Many people turn to alcohol to try to drown the [cries] and longings of the soul. Others attempt to quiet the longings of their souls in other ways. Nothing but God ever completely satisfies, because the soul is made for God.
Billy Graham
There's One Person above all others who desires an extraordinary life for you. He is a Father who delights, like any good father, in the achievements and happiness of His children. His name is God! And nothing will please Him more than seeing you reach your highest potential.
John Bevere
The word church as applied to the Christian society was first used by Jesus Himself when He told Peter, “Upon this rock I will build my church” [Matthew 16:18]. He is the foundation of all Christian experience.
Billy Graham
A life without God is like a boat without an anchor.
Billy Graham
It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.
Billy Graham
O God! There are many things in [the Bible] I do not understand . . . I am going to accept this as Thy Word—by faith! I’m going to allow faith to go beyond my intellectual questions and doubts, and I will believe this to be Your inspired Word.
Billy Graham
If we are at peace with this world, it may be because we have sold out to it and compromised with it.
Billy Graham
Getting to know God and being able to call on Him is the most important step in storing up for the storms.
Billy Graham
If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!
Leonard Ravenhill