Quotes by Evangelists - Page 9

Jesus told His disciples that the “world,” meaning the world system, the political and social order organized apart from God, will despise Christians.
Billy Graham
Blood is the symbol of the life sacrificed for sin.
Billy Graham
If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God’s mercy.
Billy Graham
In our spiritual pilgrimage we see sins which mar our relationship with God, but beneath it is a commitment which seeks to move beyond to a higher life, based on wholehearted surrender to God.
Billy Graham
This is still the age of grace. God’s offer of forgiveness and a new life still stands. However, the door will one day be closed. Someday it will be too late. This is why the Bible continually warns and challenges: “Now is the accepted time” [2 Corinthians 6:2 NKJV].
Billy Graham
This “I” was made in the image of God for fellowship with God. Without God it is miserable, empty, confused, and frustrated. Without God life has no meaning; but with God at its center there is life, an inner strength and peace, a deep satisfaction, an unfading joy known only to those who know Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
The Holy Spirit gives liberty to the Christian, direction to the worker, discernment to the teacher, power to the Word, and fruit to faithful service. He reveals the things of Christ.
Billy Graham
The unbelieving world should see our testimony lived out daily because it just may point them to the Savior.
Billy Graham
Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.
Billy Graham
Ask God to give you a greater hunger for Himself and a deeper desire for His fellowship. Then be honest about whatever is keeping you from prayer, and ask God to help you deal with it.
Billy Graham
I. All the distinctive characteristics of personality are ascribed to the Holy Spirit in the Bible.
R.A. Torrey
I like the bumper sticker that reads, “Christians aren’t perfect, just forgiven.” But that does not give us license to live below God’s standard.
Billy Graham
We now have the advantage of a few years more of life, but death is still standing at the end of the road.
Billy Graham
Death reduces all men to the same rank. It strips the rich of his millions and the poor man of his rags . . .Death knows no age limits, no partiality. It is a thing that all men fear.
Billy Graham
We must be constantly aware that Satan can take any human effort and twist it to serve his own purposes.
Billy Graham
The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
Billy Sunday
Every generation has found [the Bible’s] message indispensable, and its influence on individuals and society over the centuries has been enormous.
Billy Graham
Most people yearn for one thing more than anything else: inner peace. Without it they have no lasting happiness or security.
Billy Graham
Christians need to take a stand for what is right and not let evil go unchallenged.
Billy Graham
When the Christian or the church becomes popular with the unbelieving world, something is seriously wrong. Because Christ runs counter to evil and because we are Christ-owned, we must also stand against evil.
Billy Graham
It is only the consecrated, Spirit-filled Christian who can have victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil. It is the Holy Spirit who will do the fighting for you.
Billy Graham
Christians, pray for an outpouring of God’s Spirit upon a willful, evil, unrepentant world.
Billy Graham
If we feed our spiritual lives and allow the Holy Spirit to empower us, He will have rule over us. If we starve our spiritual natures and instead feed the old, sinful nature, the flesh will dominate.
Billy Graham
I like to describe worry or anxiety as spending today trying to figure out tomorrow. Let's learn to use the time God has given us for today!
Joyce Meyer
What a beautiful name. I love to watch how it falls off the lips of those who love Him. I shudder as it falls off the lips of those who don't. Jesus.
Beth Moore
Pleasure depends on circumstances, but Christian joy is completely independent of health, money, or surroundings.
Billy Graham
I wept more in Korea than in all the past several years put together. These experiences changed my life. I could never be quite the same again . . . I felt sadder, older. I felt as though I had gone in a boy and come out a man.
Billy Graham
Do you know what nearly all the sociologists say today in their study of young people? The greatest problem facing young people today is not sex—it is boredom.
Billy Graham
God welcomes our prayers. He is much more concerned about our hearts than our eloquence.
Billy Graham
God’s holiness demands that sin be punished—but God’s love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.
Billy Graham
We live in an upside-down world, in which people hate what they should love and love what they should hate.
Billy Graham
There are Christians who have never really learned the biblical truth of separation: separation from unclean thoughts and unclean habits.
Billy Graham
If we have our eyes upon ourselves, our problems, and our pain, we cannot lift our eyes upward. A child looks up when he’s walking with his father, and the same should be true for the Christian.
Billy Graham
In order to compete with God for the dominion of the world, Satan, whom Christ called “the prince of this world,” was forced to go into the “religion” business.
Billy Graham
Nowhere in Mark 16:15—“Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” [KJV] — nor in any similar Scripture did Christ command us to go only into the Western or capitalist world. Nowhere did He say to exclude the Communist world.
Billy Graham
People reading the Bible for the first time are often surprised to discover how much human drama it contains. Almost every conceivable human dilemma and conflict is reflected in its pages.
Billy Graham
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
Leonard Ravenhill
The faithful Christian steward acknowledges that God owns all he has, and it is his responsibility to manage and dispose of his possessions in a way that is acceptable to the Lord.
Billy Graham
A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.
Bob Harrington
It is strange that men will prepare for everything except death. We prepare for education. We prepare for business. We prepare for our careers. We prepare for marriage. We prepare for old age. We prepare for everything except the moment we are to die.
Billy Graham
Patience is a fruit of the spirit that grows only under trial. It is useless to pray for patience. Well, actually I encourage you to pray for patience, but I'll tell you what you'll get TRIALS!
Joyce Meyer
God called me many years ago to be an evangelist, and I have never regretted His leading. I love the crusades, meeting people from every country and culture all over the world. My life has been blessed by friends from every land, and challenges from every corner.
Billy Graham
The mind is often an area where "people play around with sin".
Joyce Meyer
The word repentance is sadly missing today from the average pulpit. It is a very unpopular word. The first sermon Jesus ever preached was “Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” [Matthew 4:17 kjv].
Billy Graham
The Bible is primarily concerned with the story of man’s redemption as it is in Jesus Christ. If you read Scripture and miss the story of salvation, you have missed its message and its meaning.
Billy Graham
It was God’s love which knew that men were incapable of obeying His law, and it was His love which promised a Redeemer, a Savior, who would save His people from their sins.
Billy Graham
Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ.
Beth Moore
God’s strength is made perfect in weakness. The weaker I became, the more powerful became the preaching.
Billy Graham
In order to get to heaven, Jesus said that you must be converted. I didn’t say it—Jesus said it!
Billy Graham
The Bible warns that money cannot buy happiness! Money cannot buy true pleasure. Money cannot buy peace of heart. And money certainly cannot buy entrance into the kingdom of God.
Billy Graham
Your salvation is a free gift, made possible only because God planned it . . .Christ paid for it . . . and the Holy Spirit assures you of it.
Billy Graham
Christians are to be “the light of the world” [Matthew 5:14], illuminating the darkness caused by sin and giving guidance to a world that has lost its way.
Billy Graham
Too many husbands and wives enter into marriage with the idea that their spouse exists for one purpose: to make them happy.
Billy Graham
Only in heaven will we know exactly what heaven is like.
Billy Graham
We should read the Bible expectantly, systematically, and obediently . . .The Bible can change our lives as we read it and obey its teachings every day.
Billy Graham
When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God.
Billy Graham
Ruth once wrote, “Dear Journal, Never let a single day pass without saying an encouraging word to each child . . .‘More people fail for lack of encouragement,’ someone wrote, ‘than for any other reason.
Billy Graham
It is Satan’s purpose to steal the seed of truth from your heart by sending distracting thoughts . . . The difference between a Christian and a non-Christian is: though they both may have good and evil thoughts, Christ gives His followers strength to select the right rather than the wrong.
Billy Graham
For those who have already experienced the grace of Almighty God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, prayer becomes the catalyst for fellowship with the Lord of our souls, redeemed by his blood. By tapping into the channel by which we commune with the One who calls his children “friends,” we can receive his strength in our weakness; his guidance in our steps; and his mercy when we stumble along life’s path.
Franklin Graham
The cross shows the seriousness of our sin—but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.
Billy Graham