Quotes by Evangelists - Page 6

God’s laws for the spiritual world are found in the Bible. Whatever else there may be that tells us of God, it is more clearly told in the Bible.
Billy Graham
It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies.
Billy Graham
Dishonesty is never justified. God will never approve, and even your own conscience will rise up to condemn you sooner or later.
Billy Graham
Sin diverts some. Pleasure diverts others. Social service and “religious” activity divert others. We are told to be occupied with Jesus Christ Himself.
Billy Graham
Christ’s church is a place to grow people up in the Lord, not to enhance our leisure time.
Billy Graham
We can hold nothing back [from God]. He must control and dominate us [wholly]. It is a surrender without any conditions attached. This surrender is a definite and conscious act on our part in obedience to the Word of God.
Billy Graham
We have been told by God that if we sin against Him and break His commandments, He will bring judgment upon the world. It is my responsibility and my duty as a minister of the Gospel to [warn] people. This is the message I must deliver.
Billy Graham
Christ never told his disciples that they would get an Academy Award for their performances, but He did tell them to expect to have troubles.
Billy Graham
God’s love did not begin at the cross. It began in eternity before the world was established, before the time clock of civilization began to move.
Billy Graham
We preach Christ crucified. The cross is the focal point in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. It was no afterthought or emergency measure with God. Christ was “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” [Revelation 3:8 KJV].
Billy Graham
The world by its advertisements, its conversation, and its philosophy is engaged in a gigantic brainwashing task . . . The Christian is beset by secular and worldly propaganda.
Billy Graham
The blood of Christ justifies and saves us . . .The word justification means “just as if you had never sinned.
Billy Graham
Speak about the love of God and faces light up, but speak of God as a Judge, and our attitudes change.
Billy Graham
There is not a day that we do not have a chance to choose between the devil’s clever promises and God’s sure Word.
Billy Graham
Because [the Holy Spirit] is a spirit, [He] isn’t limited by time or space. He can be everywhere at once. He is in the midst of the largest galaxy—and the smallest atom.
Billy Graham
Learn from your disappointments and failures and with God’s help seek to overcome them. Ask yourself, could I have done anything to prevent this? Were my hopes and dreams unrealistic, or were my motives wrong?Is there a new path God wants me to explore?
Billy Graham
Satan exalted himself above God and endeavored to get man to doubt the reliability of God’s Word.
Billy Graham
God takes the weak and makes them strong. He takes the vile and makes them clean. He takes the worthless and makes them worthwhile. He takes the sinful and makes them sinless.
Billy Graham
God did not ordain that the church should drift aimlessly in the seas of uncertainty without compass, captain, or crew.
Billy Graham
As I close my eyes in prayer, let me see the faces of those who need to know You, beloved Savior.
Billy Graham
Nothing will help us grow spiritually more than spending time alone with God every day, reading His Word and praying. Time alone with God is essential to our spiritual welfare.
Billy Graham
It is the presence of sin that prevents man from being truly happy.
Billy Graham
Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn’t in you. Church can become a drab thing and the Bible an irksome Book if the Holy Spirit does not illuminate your soul with His indwelling presence.
Billy Graham
As Christians we have a responsibility toward the poor, the oppressed, the downtrodden, and the many innocent people around the world who are caught in wars, natural disasters, and situations beyond their control.
Billy Graham
Some people resist the idea of a choice of any sort. They don’t want to be called “narrow.” But Jesus taught that there are two roads, and you have to choose which road you will take.
Billy Graham
Though [Jesus’] words were profound, they were plain. His words were weighty, yet they shone with a luster and simplicity of statement that staggered His enemies.
Billy Graham
There are no new sins—only new sinners. There are no new crimes—only new criminals, No new evils—only new evildoers. No new pleasures—only new pleasure seekers. We must distinguish between wholesome, God-ordained pleasure and sinful, worldly pleasure.
Billy Graham
Scripture makes it clear that our first love is always to be for our Lord.
Billy Graham
When Jesus was tempted, He didn’t debate the devil. He quoted Scripture: “It is written . . . It is written . . . It is written” (Matthew 4:4–10 NKJV). And each time the devil was defeated.
Billy Graham
God does not want an apartment in our house. He claims our entire home from attic to cellar.
Billy Graham
Life is a glorious opportunity if it is used to condition us for eternity.
Billy Graham
If you don’t take your stand for Christ, you will be on the wrong side, and someday when it is too late, you’ll cry out, “I’ve taken the wrong stand!” You’ll be in the devil’s trap! You can’t lick the devil.
Billy Graham
Man has not changed. Man still rejects the testimony of the Scripture.
Billy Graham
Jesus was born with the cross darkening His pathway . . . From the cradle to the cross, [Jesus’] purpose was to die.
Billy Graham
No matter where we are, God is as close as a prayer. He is our support and our strength. He will help us make our way up again from whatever depths we have fallen.
Billy Graham
If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.
Leonard Ravenhill
Fear cannot stay in the same house as Jesus Christ.
Jack Coe
The promoters of change offer a grand vision of world unity. While the globalists and international affairs specialists continue their chant for “peace, peace,” we are reminded that the Bible says that there can be no lasting peace until Christ returns. So the world remains restless and uncertain.
Billy Graham
When the church begins to entertain the flock and respond to the cult of self—it is diminished to a mere community center.
Billy Graham
Exercise and proper eating habits are very important, since the Bible says that the body is God’s holy temple, but I don’t think that superbodies equate with committed Christian discipleship. Some of the greatest saints I’ve known have been those with physical infirmities.
Billy Graham
Some of the most heart-breaking letters I receive are from people who tell how alcohol or drugs have ravaged their lives and destroyed their families.
Billy Graham
The greatest vision of sin that a person canever receive is to look at the cross.
Billy Graham
Pray always pray when sickness wastes thy frame Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.
A.B. Simpson
There are too many professed Christians who never get “wrought up” about anything; they never get indignant with injustice, with corruption in high places, or with the godless traffics which barter away the souls and bodies of people.
Billy Graham
Someone has said, “Prayer is the highest use to which speech can be put.
Billy Graham
If we truly love Christ, we will want to please and honor Him by the way we live. Even the thought of hurting Him or bringing disgrace to His name will be abhorrent to us.
Billy Graham
The greatest way to witness is through the life you live. Let the radiance of your Christian life be such that it will make [others] ask questions about your [faith].
Billy Graham
Blessing is bowing down to receive the expressions of divine favor that in the inner recesses of the human heart and mind make life worth the bother.
Beth Moore
No one is exempt from the touch of tragedy: neither the Christian nor the non-Christian; neither the rich nor the poor; neither the leader or the commoner. Crossing all racial, social, political, and economic barriers, suffering reaches out to unite mankind.
Billy Graham
God does not discipline us to subdue us but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness. In His wisdom, He knows that an uncontrolled life is an unhappy life, so He puts reins on our wayward souls that they may be directed into the paths of righteousness.
Billy Graham
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Billy Graham
Once you have been to the cross, you will never be the same.
Billy Graham
Be attractive and winsome, but do not compromise your convictions for the sake of popularity.
Billy Graham
We must face honestly the toll that anger and bitterness take on our lives. They are our enemies! The Bible says, “An angry person stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered one commits many sins.
Billy Graham
Christianity is not primarily a matter of externals, nevertheless it does find expression in conversation, habits, recreation, emphasis, and ambitions to be noted in our daily life.
Billy Graham
The Bible clearly says that faithfulness and persecution often go hand in hand.
Billy Graham
What I find disturbing in America is the consuming desire for leisure, convenience, and fun. It seems we, as a nation, have traded God for gadgets. We have traded eternal truth for momentary self-gratification—worshipping false gods of materialism and humanism instead of the Creator of all things.
Billy Graham
Life can grow sweeter and more rewarding as we grow older if we possess the presence of Christ. Sunsets are always glorious. It is Christ who adds colors, glory, and beauty to man’s sunsets.
Billy Graham
Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God’s eyes is faithfulness to His calling.
Billy Graham
Take the helm and sail your own ship. Don't just get into the boat with nobody at the helm and merely hope that the waves of life take you somewhere good.
Joyce Meyer