Quotes by Evangelists - Page 36

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.
Joyce Meyer
I long to see [Jesus] face to face, to hear His voice and touch Him. In the day I go to be with Him, there will be no unfulfilled longings or disappointments. He will welcome me into His mansion, answer my questions, and teach me the wisdom of the ages.
Billy Graham
When we preach or teach the Scriptures, we open the door for the Holy Spirit to do His work. God has not promised to bless oratory or clever preaching. He has promised to bless His Word.
Billy Graham
Movie and television stars lay down the law offashions, manners, speech, and even moral behavior. It has been proven that a movie or a television program can brainwash.
Billy Graham
We have so many battles going on in America today that we should be a people of prayer. Our government needs prayer. Our leaders need prayer. Our schools need prayer. Our youth need our prayers. Our families need our prayers.
Billy Graham
The secret of the power of Christianity is not in its ethics. It is not in Christian ideas or philosophy . . .the secret of Christianity is found . . . in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
(On being in a position of leadership) Even if it's your dog, you've got authority over somebody. Start treating him better.
Joyce Meyer
The Bible is God’s love letter to us.
Billy Graham
Never has there been a time when men tried so desperately to have fun as they do today.
Billy Graham
The same Book that tells us over and over again of God’s love warns us constantly of the devil who would come between us and God, the devil who is ever waiting to ensnare men’s souls.
Billy Graham
We can never live this [Christian] life on the highest plane unless we are continually growing and moving forward. You should be closer to God today in heart, soul, and body than at any other time so far in your life.
Billy Graham
Sometimes when I open my Bible to read, a verse leaps off the page and I know God is speaking to me. Sometimes I read and nothing seems to be illuminated. Sometimes I pray and have the keen sense that He is listening to every word and will answer me. Sometimes when I pray, I have no awareness that He's anywhere around. Sometimes when I go to church or draw aside for some quiet reflection, I have the overwhelming sense that Jesus is right beside me. At other times in the exact same settings, I have no conscious awareness of His presence at all. And I know by each experience — as I read my Bible and pray and work and worship — that He is teaching me to live by FAITH, not by my feelings.
Anne Graham Lotz
When I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, I found the secret of life!
Billy Graham
I have never met anyone who spent time in daily prayer, and in the study of the Word of God, and was strong in faith, who was ever discouraged for very long.
Billy Graham
Some people spend so much time worrying about what might happen that they never enjoy what is happening [now] . . . Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Billy Graham
Thousands of people have entered churches without discovering a vital experience with Jesus Christ. The substitutes have been handed them in the guise of religious rituals, good works, community effort, or social reform . . .none of which can gain a person a right relationship with God.
Billy Graham
The whole world ought to know the story of the Bible.
Billy Graham
Children do need the guidance of their parents, and we guide them more by the example we set than by any other way. We need to be firm and sane and fair and consistent—and, above all, we need to discipline in a spirit of love.
Billy Graham
Pain has many faces . . .the unseen part of man is often the victim of the most debilitating of pains . . . a man can endure excruciating physical pain, and yet he can be felled by one unkind word.
Billy Graham
The Bible teaches that life does not end at the cemetery. There is a future life.
Billy Graham
I may wish to return to my home in England, and I stand in New York, but ever since I was born I have been bound to this earth by a law that I have never been able to break--the law of gravity. I am told, however, that there is another law, a higher law, the law of aero-dynamics, and if only I will be willing to commit myself in total trust to this new law, then this new law will set me free from the old law. By faith I step into the plane, I sit back in the rest of faith, and as those mighty engines roar into life, I discover that the new law of aero-dynamics sets me free from the law of gravity.
W. Ian Thomas
Man’s nature and destiny are revealed in the Scriptures.
Billy Graham
There are thousands of people who have had some form of emotional experience that they refer to as conversion but who have never been truly converted to Christ. Christ demands a change in the way you live—and if your life does not conform to your experience, then you have every reason to doubt your experience!
Billy Graham
The church should not be pampered but rather prepare for, and expect, persecution—for it is Christ’s body on earth.
Billy Graham
If we are to have real faith, we must study the Word of God and discover what is promised. Then, we must simply believe the promises of God. Trying to believe something that you want to believe is not faith. Believing what God says in His Word is faith.
R.A. Torrey
The devil and his demons really do believe in God—and why wouldn’t they? They understand that they are engaged in a cosmic battle of titanic proportions, and they know they are up against the Creator of the universe—a truth that makes them shudder. There are no atheists in hell!
Billy Graham
He who cares for the sparrows and numbers the hairs of our head, cannot possibly fail us.
Hannah Whitall Smith
When comfort and ease and pleasure are put ahead of duty and conviction, progress is always set back.
Billy Graham
To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high.
Billy Graham
I look forward to seeing Christ and bowing before Him in praise and gratitude for all He has done for us, and for using me on this earth by His grace—just as I am.
Billy Graham
Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.
Billy Sunday
Pure hearts will be Christlike. It is God’s desire that we be conformed to the image of His Son.
Billy Graham
[We] are not here by chance or by accident; God put us on this journey called life. We came from Him, and our greatest joy will come from giving ourselves back to Him and learning to walk with Him every day until we return to Him.
Billy Graham
Salvation is an act of God. It is initiated by God, wrought by God, and sustained by God.
Billy Graham
As for the world system of evil, we are to be separated from it. This then is our problem: to associate with and love those who are involved in the world without being contaminated, influenced, or swayed by them. This distinction can be achieved only by a close walk with Christ, by constant prayer, and by seeking the Holy Spirit’s leadership every hour of the day. We are in the world, but the world is not to be in us.
Billy Graham
In America we have an idolatry called the “adulation of youth.” Apparently distressed by their inability to communicate with the younger generation, many adults simply imitate it.
Billy Graham
At the return of Christ the resurrection of believers will take place. It will take the unbelieving world by surprise.
Billy Graham
The human conscience is reliable only when it is guided by the Holy Spirit.
Billy Graham
Sin is serious—so serious it sent Jesus Christ to the cross. Flee from [sin] and stay close to Christ.
Billy Graham
Sickness is deep within the soul of our society—and that has always been God’s exclusive territory.
Billy Graham
We glorify God by living lives that honor Him.
Billy Graham
I was very timid, and bound as with chains in a man-fearing spirit. When I arose to testify I trembled like a leaf, and began to make excuses - O God, send someone else! Then the Lord in a vision caused me to see the bottomless pit open in all its horror and woe. There was weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. It was surrounded by a great multitude of people who seemed unconscious of their danger, and without a moments warning they would tumble into this awful place. I was above the people on a narrow plank-walk, which wound up toward heaven; and I was exhorting and pleading with the people to come upon the plank and escape that awful place. Several started.There was a beautiful bright light above me, and I was encouraging them to follow that light and they would go straight to heaven."In all these trials God was preparing me and opening the way for the great battle against the enemy of souls and now the great desire of my heart was to work for Jesus. I longed to win a star for the Savior's crown.
Maria Woodworth-Etter
Our world today is looking for men and women with integrity, for communicators who back up their ministry with their lives. Our preaching emerges out of what we are. We are called to be a holy people—separated from the moral evils of the world.
Billy Graham
Some people seem to put the devil on a par with God. Actually, Satan is a fallen angel.
Billy Graham
Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.
Billy Graham
Better die an old maid, sister, than marry the wrong man.
Billy Sunday
If the human race would turn from its evil ways and return to God, putting behind its sins of disobedience, idolatry, pride, greed, and belligerence, and all the various aberrations that lead to war, the possibility of peace exists.
Billy Graham
Some years ago I was invited to be on a television talk show with one of the most famous personalities in America. Afterward she took me aside and told of the emptiness in her life. “My beauty is gone,” she said, “I am getting old, I’m living on alcohol, and I have nothing to live for.
Billy Graham
Sin is rebellion against God.
Billy Graham
Church is not for pretenders and performers. Church is a place for pastors to preach principles of the faith in order to prepare believers to face the storms of life on the stage of an unbelieving world.
Billy Graham
Go is the first part of the word Gospel.It should be the watchword of every true follower of Christ.It should be emblazoned on the banners of the church.
Billy Graham
Be willing to be sneered at than to be approved, counting the cross of Christ greater riches than all the treasures of Washington, London, Paris, or Moscow.
Billy Graham
Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.
Dawson Trotman
Men and women do make decisions wherever the Gospel is proclaimed; whether publicly or privately, some say yes, some say no, and some procrastinate. No one ever hears the Gospel proclaimed without making some kind of decision!
Billy Graham
All transgressions begin with sinful thinking . . . guard against the pictures of lewdness and sensuality that Satan flashes upon the screen of your imagination, select with care the books you read, choose discerningly the kind of entertainment youattend, the kind of associates with whom you mingle, and the kind of environment in which you place yourself.
Billy Graham
I missed the joy of seeing our children grow and change. I thank God for watching over them during those years.
Billy Graham
The Antichrist . . . will be the embodiment of evil, and will have great power to deceive those who choose to follow him.
Billy Graham
Today the idea of the shed blood of Christ is becoming old-fashioned and out of date in a lot of preaching. It is in the Bible. It is the very heart of Christianity.
Billy Graham
Sooner or later we must leave our dream world and face up to the facts of God, sin, and judgment. The Bible says, “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God” [Romans 3:23 NIV].
Billy Graham
Repentance is mentioned seventy times in the New Testament . . . the Bible says God commands repentance . . . it is a command . . .God says, “Repent! Or perish!
Billy Graham