Quotes by Evangelists - Page 5

God—the Bible’s Author—loves you and wants you to be His child through faith in Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
Being pure in conduct also includes honesty and integrity in dealing with our fellowmen. A Christian should be known in his neighborhood or place of business as an honest person.
Billy Graham
Preaching the whole council of God involves man’s environment and physical being as well as his soul. There is no doubt that the church is in danger of getting off the main track and getting lost.
Billy Graham
Thousands of pastors, Sunday school teachers, and Christian workers are powerless because they do not make the Word the source of their preaching or teaching.
Billy Graham
Today we have more knowledge than at any other time in history. In seconds our laptops or PCs can call up information about a topic that would have taken years to collect. Young people graduate with more knowledge than ever before—but in spite of their knowledge, they are confused, bewildered, frustrated, and without moral moorings.
Billy Graham
The apostle Paul urges Christians everywhere in all ages to be nonconformists as far as the world system is concerned. We are not to conform. A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept themoral standards of this world.
Billy Graham
The greatest need in the world is the transformation of human nature. We need a new heart that will not have lust and greed and hate in it. We need a heart filled with love and peace and joy, and that is why Jesus came into the world.
Billy Graham
Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality.
Billy Graham
You will never know the peace with God, peace of conscience, peace of mind, and peace of soul until you stand at the foot of the cross and identify yourself with Christ by faith . . . this is peace with God.
Billy Graham
I am not where I need to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.
Joyce Meyer
When disappointment or tragedy or suffering strikes, we have a decision to make: Will we turn away from God, or will we turn toward Him? Which road will we take? One road leads to doubt, anger, bitterness, fear, hopelessness, and despair.The other leads to hope, comfort, peace, strength, and joy.
Billy Graham
It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men believed it . . .The fact always precedes the faith.
Billy Graham
You can’t change the past. But with God’s help you can change the future. No matter what your life has been like so far, God wants to put your feet on a new path . . . a better path . . . His path.
Billy Graham
Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.
Billy Graham
One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper was not hostile; he was not opposed to them, but his inn was crowded; his hands were full; his mind was preoccupied. This§ is the answer that millions are giving today. Like a Bethlehem innkeeper, they cannot find room for Christ. All the accommodations in their hearts are already taken up by other crowding interests. Their response is not atheism. It is not defiance. It is preoccupation and the feeling of being able to get on reasonably well without Christianity.
Billy Graham
Truth is easier for a child to handle than evasiveness.
Billy Graham
The knowledge of God’s Word without love is a destructive force because it puffs us up with pride and legalism.
John Bevere
One of the ironies of human nature is that it often has a way of rejecting the best and accepting the worst.
Billy Graham
Drinking and other forms of body-wrecking pleasures are signs of weakness rather than manliness. It takes a better man to live a clean life—free from the stimulants, depressants, and drugs—than to be artificially [stimulated].
Billy Graham
Although Jesus Christ was Himself the Creative Deity, by whom all things were made, as man He humbled Himself--set aside His divine prerogatives and walked this earth as man -- a perfect demonstration of what God intended man to be--the whole personality yielded to and occupied by God for Himself.
W. Ian Thomas
Sin, like a deadly cancer, has invaded every area of our lives: our bodies, our minds, our emotions, our wills—everything.
Billy Graham
With them I gladly shared my all and learned the great truth that where God guides He provides.
Frank N. D. Buchman
Anger and bitterness—whatever the cause—only end up hurting us. Turn that anger over to Christ.
Billy Graham
No matter how we may rationalize the practice [of homosexuality] . . . Romans 1 makes it clearly the product of a reprobate mind . . .I am not exonerating all heterosexual activity . . . When we come to Christ, we are called upon to repent of our sins and no longer to practice the ungodly patterns of living.
Billy Graham
One result of family failure has been the loss of dignity. No better example can be found than in the use of language. [Language has been reduced to] a four-letter word in movies, on television, in comedy routines, and in real life.
Billy Graham
The Western world’s sole objective seems to be success, status, security, self-indulgence, pleasure, and comfort.
Billy Graham
If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.
Joyce Meyer
Modern Western culture has become a mixture of paganism and Christianity. We are a blend of both. We talk of God, but we often act as though we are atheists.
Billy Graham
I urge new converts to take plenty of time in Bible study and prayer before getting on a public platform to testify.
Billy Graham
It is vitally important for local church leaders to keep in touch with the spiritual state of their members, to discuss their level of biblical knowledge, and to teach them how to study God’s Word and pray.
Billy Graham
God gave the Bible to us because He wants us to know Him and love Him and serve Him. Most of all, He gave it to us so we can become more like Christ.
Billy Graham
If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.It is in the close similarity between good and evil, right and wrong, that the danger lies.
Billy Graham
Today . . . when Satan worship is increasing at an alarming rate, we had better be aware of him, his origin, his aims, his abilities, and his limitations.
Billy Graham
Patience is the transcendent radiance of a loving and tender heart which, in its dealings with those around it, looks kindly and graciously upon them.
Billy Graham
[The] inability to comprehend fully the mysteries of God does not in any way curtail the Christian faith. On the contrary, it enhances our belief. We do not understand the intricate pattern of the stars in their courses, but we know that He who created them does, and that just as surely as He guides them, He is charting a safe course for us.
Billy Graham
No matter what you do, 10% of the population will not like you.
Joyce Meyer
Pride is the archenemy of ministry.
Beth Moore
The world is heading for another major crisis that is being called, even by the secular world, “Armageddon.
Billy Graham
We are accountable to [God] for the way we use our time.
Billy Graham
It is easy for Christians to allow themselves to be squeezed into the world’s mold . . . When nonbelievers see nothing different in the lifestyle of believers, they wonder if our profession of faith is sincere.
Billy Graham
Success stories may be great motivational material for sales seminars, but we are not always successful.
Billy Graham
We insult God by speaking to Him with our lips while our hearts are far from Him.
Billy Graham
When we are filled with the Spirit of God, obeying God, in His will and quoting Scripture, Satan will be defeated.
Billy Graham
God loves us the way we are but He loves us too much to leave us that way.
Leighton Ford
We see that humanism has become for many a polite name for a vocal, aggressive, influential crusade against religion in the name of social and moral advance. There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan’s first temptation of Adam and Eve: “Ye shall be as gods” [Genesis 3:5 KJV].
Billy Graham
I have heard the hollow, shallow laughter of the world. I have heard the genuine laughter of the beaming young Christian. I know there is a difference.
Billy Graham
The closer you are to God, the farther you are from the devil.
Billy Graham
What makes Christians different from everyone else is that God Himself lives within them by His Holy Spirit. When we come to Christ and give our lives to Him, God actually takes up residence within us.
Billy Graham
As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time unless he eats, so is with the inner man. What is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God-not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe. No, we must consider what we read, ponder over it, and apply it to our hearts.
George Müller
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
Billy Graham
[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.
Joyce Meyer
The church in America has been deeply infiltrated by the “world,” and in the process it is beginning to copy and resemble the world in many of its activities.
Billy Graham
Science, they say, can tap the brain of man and alter his desires. But the Bible, which has withstood the ravages of time . . . says that we are possessed of a sinful, fallen nature which wars against us.
Billy Graham
If the other person would just do things my way, we could get along,” one says, when the other person is probably thinking the same about us—that leads to conflict. Our deepest problems are within ourselves.
Billy Graham
Some of the most healing words in any language are, “I’m sorry. Will you forgive me?” How much more we need that confession to our Father in heaven.
Billy Graham
The devil has successfully fooled many churches, convincing them to follow the world. Biblical standards have been compromised by convenient social theories.
Billy Graham
God’s goal isn’t just to remove the bad things in our lives; He wants to replace them with good things. His plan is to remake us from within, by His Holy Spirit.
Billy Graham
Even though Paul knew farewells were inevitable, he still formed deep relationships.
Beth Moore
My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death.
Billy Graham
I have yet to see Satan overcome a truly joyful Christian.
Billy Graham