Quotes by Evangelists - Page 35

Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God’s forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul.
Franklin Graham
A computer . . . has no worth unless it is programmed . . . The believer has tremendous potential, but that potential cannot be used until he is programmed with the Word of God.
Billy Graham
Young people are experts on leisure, water skiing, dancing, rock music, rapping, TV watching . . . by and large, chores are a thing of the past.
Billy Graham
Two thousand years ago God invited a morally corrupt world to the foot of the cross. There God held your sins and mine to the flames until every last vestige of our guilt was consumed.
Billy Graham
We shouldn’t refer to the Spirit as “it”; instead we should always refer to the Spirit as “He”—because the Holy Spirit is a Person. He speaks to us, He commands us, He intercedes for us, He hears us, He guides us.
Billy Graham
If our minds and hearts are not filled with God’s truth, something else will take His place: cynicism, occultism, false religions and philosophies, drugs—the list is endless.
Billy Graham
You can have religion but not know Christ. It’s having Christ that counts.
Billy Graham
When one bears suffering faithfully, God is glorified and honored.
Billy Graham
If you'll follow Christ's commands, you'll follow Christ straight to your calling and you'll have developed the strength, grit, and stability along the way to handle it.
Beth Moore
The blood of Christ “purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation” (Revelation 5:9 NIV).
Billy Graham
We witness in two ways: by life and by word . . . God’s purpose . . , after we have been converted is that we be witnesses to His saving grace and power. We are to be commandoes for Christ. We are to be minute-men for Him.
Billy Graham
A survey reported that the majority of the seminaries [in the United States] had no classes on prayer. That really shouldn’t surprise us when we consider how many local churches offer classes on gardening and the “Art of Conversation” instead of the study of God’s Word and prayer.
Billy Graham
Fear can banish faith, but faith can banish fear.
Billy Graham
There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.
Kirk Cameron
The resurrection is our great hope.
Billy Graham
[God] alone is perfect. Even His anger is righteous, because it is directed solely against evil.
Billy Graham
A call for national and individual repentance is urgently needed today, or judgment is certain to fall.
Billy Graham
Thousands of young couples go through with a loveless marriage because no one ever told them what genuine love is. If people today knew that kind of love, the divorce rate would be sharply reduced.
Billy Graham
Don’t take the holiness of God lightly, for it is the very essence of His character.
Billy Graham
Humility is the earmark of God's genuine servant.
Beth Moore
Guilt is not all bad. Without it there is nothing to drive a person toward self-examination and toward God for forgiveness.
Billy Graham
Salt and light speak of the influence Christians can exercise for good in society.
Billy Graham
The Bible says that God sees two classes of men. He sees the saved and the lost, those who are going to heaven and those who are going to hell.
Billy Graham
Our culture puts feelings first, but true love isn’t based on feelings. That is why there are so many divorces today. When the early romantic feelings in a marriage do not remain constant . . .many people believe divorce is the answer.
Billy Graham
Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won’t grumble. Grumble and you won’t be grateful.
Billy Graham
When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite “thank you,” it is the recognition of dependence.
Billy Graham
Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness.
Billy Graham
Sometimes it’s best to start moving in the direction you think God may want you to go, and then trust Him to lead you—closing doors He doesn’t want you to go through and opening up others.
Billy Graham
No matter what the climate is, what the troubles are, what the difficulties are, there is joy for the child of God, because joy is produced supernaturally by the Holy Spirit in us.
Billy Graham
When you are told that science has disproved the Bible, ask specifically where such is the case. True science and a true understanding of the Bible are never at variance.
Billy Graham
Pride consists not in wanting to be rich, but in wanting to be richer than your neighbor. It is not in wanting to be noticed but in wanting to be the most noticed. It is not in wanting to have things but in wanting more things than others.
Billy Graham
Throughout our culture we have been led to the idea that we accept death as the end of life on earth . . .Time bound as we are and goal oriented to achievements in our lifetime, we find it strange to anticipate heaven.
Billy Graham
To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ Who is our life.
W. Ian Thomas
Today there are more people who know the words to a television commercial than know the words in the Bible.
Billy Graham
Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is one reason we must receive Christ, for apart from His Spirit we can never be freed from the chains of selfishness, jealousy, and indifference. Will others see Christ's love in your life today?
Billy Graham
It is only the strong Christian family unit that can survive the coming world holocaust.
Billy Graham
In the face of legalized pornography, the conscience of America seems to be paralyzed. More serious than our fakery in art, literature, and pictures is the collapse of our moral standards and the blunting of our capacity as a nation for righteous indignation.
Billy Graham
The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.
Billy Graham
Our life is not of this world.
Billy Graham
There is not one verse of Scripture that indicates you can be a Christian and live any kind of a life you want to. When Christ enters into the human heart, He expects to be Lord and Master. He commands complete surrender.
Billy Graham
Have you ever said, “Well, all we can do now is pray”? . . . When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God.
Billy Graham
Spread out your petition before God and then say "Thy will not mine be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.
Dwight L. Moody
I’m not a great preacher, and I don’t claim to be a great preacher . . . I’m an ordinary preacher, just communicating the Gospel in the best way I know how.
Billy Graham
If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!
George Whitefield
We have become a nation of biblical illiterates.
Billy Graham
I was all the time tugging and carrying water. But now I have a river that carries me.
Dwight L. Moody
My wife often said that “a good marriage consists of two good forgivers.
Billy Graham
Old age has its compensations. More than ever I see each day as a gift from God. It is also a time to reflect back on God’s goodness over the years and an opportunity to assure others that God truly is faithful to His promises.
Billy Graham
The evolution theory is one of the dumbest and most dangerous religion in history of humanity.
Kent Hovind
Satan perverts everything good by mimicking and mocking the real thing.
Billy Graham
The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him
Dwight L. Moody
[Satan] has hundreds of agents writing pornographic literature and producing sex movies to pollute [the mind]. He has intellectuals in high positions teaching a hedonistic and permissive philosophy . . .They lack an anchor for their real self.
Billy Graham
The book of Job does not set out to answer the problem of suffering, but to proclaim a God so great that no answer is needed.
Billy Graham
The only sin God cannot forgive is the sin of rejecting Christ. Turn to Him in repentance and faith—and He will forgive.
Billy Graham
For centuries mankind has been on an incredible journey, taking him across every generation and through every conceivable experience in his search for God.
Billy Graham
Our chaotic, confused world has no greater need than to hear the message of good news—the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
Parents have bought into the world’s pastimes chock-full of pop culture, and it is searing the souls of our children. Parents have allowed electronic babysitters to infiltrate their homes and minds; young people’s sense of right and wrong is being choked by wild and rank weeds in a moral wasteland.
Billy Graham
Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil.
Billy Graham
The deepest problems of the human race are spiritual in nature. They are rooted in man’s refusal to seek God’s way for his life. The problem is the human heart, which God alone can change.
Billy Graham
There is a right way and a wrong way to make contact with God.
Billy Graham