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Motivational Billy Graham Quotes And Sayings

Billy Graham Quotes:- Billy Graham (November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018) was an American evangelist, a prominent evangelical Christian figure, and an ordained Southern Baptist minister who became well-known internationally in the late 1940s. One of his biographers has placed him “among the most influential Christian leaders” of the 20th century.

Inspirational Billy Graham Quotes

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
Billy Graham

Inspirational Billy Graham Quotes

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
Billy Graham

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
Billy Graham

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.
Billy Graham

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
Billy Graham

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Billy Graham

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’
Billy Graham


The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
Billy Graham

It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.
Billy Graham

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
Billy Graham

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.
Billy Graham

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
Billy Graham

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
Billy Graham

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.
Billy Graham

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.
Billy Graham

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.
Billy Graham

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
Billy Graham

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.
Billy Graham

I don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.
Billy Graham

There are many things that I don’t understand.
Billy Graham

Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
Billy Graham

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.
Billy Graham

Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians.
Billy Graham

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.
Billy Graham

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.
Billy Graham

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
Billy Graham

It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.
Billy Graham

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.
Billy Graham

I can’t explain 9/11, except the evil of man.
Billy Graham

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.
Billy Graham

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
Billy Graham

I’m thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn’t still be here if it weren’t for them.
Billy Graham

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.
Billy Graham

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
Billy Graham

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.
Billy Graham

I’m not an analyzer. I’ve got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don’t analyze people.
Billy Graham

I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‘Lord, remember me.’
Billy Graham

Once you’ve lost your privacy, you realize you’ve lost an extremely valuable thing.
Billy Graham

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.
Billy Graham

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.
Billy Graham

I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.
Billy Graham

People have a negative impression of New York that I don’t think is quite fair.
Billy Graham

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.
Billy Graham

It’s no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.
Billy Graham

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.
Billy Graham

We’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.
Billy Graham

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.
Billy Graham

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.
Billy Graham

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.
Billy Graham

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.
Billy Graham

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.
Billy Graham

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.
Billy Graham

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.
Billy Graham

‘Suffering should not make us bitter people,’ my mother once said, ‘it should make us better comforters.’ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.
Billy Graham

There’s a great deal to say in the Bible about the signs we’re to watch for, and when these signs all converge at one place we can be sure that we’re close to the end of the age.
Billy Graham

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.
Billy Graham

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.
Billy Graham

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham

I first met Bev Shea while in Chicago when he was on Moody Radio. As a young man starting my ministry, I asked Bev if he would join me. He said yes, and for over 60 years we had the privilege of ministering together across the country and around the world.
Billy Graham

Oral Roberts was a man of God and a great friend in ministry. I loved him as a brother.
Billy Graham

It was a privilege to pray with Governor Romney – for his family and our country.
Billy Graham

I’ve been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ.
Billy Graham

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.
Billy Graham

We go on in our pleasures thinking they’re going to last forever.
Billy Graham

The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.
Billy Graham

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.
Billy Graham

I found that this Parkinson’s does slow you down, whether you want to slow down or not.
Billy Graham

Evangelicals can’t be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.
Billy Graham

Don’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.
Billy Graham

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.
Billy Graham

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.
Billy Graham

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.
Billy Graham

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.
Billy Graham

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.
Billy Graham

When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.
Billy Graham

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.
Billy Graham

Famous Billy Graham Quotes

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
Billy Graham

The Bible says today is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation… But there will come a time when it will be too late for you.
Billy Graham

I am not going to Heaven because I have preached to great crowds or read the Bible many times. I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‘Lord, remember me.’
Billy Graham

Evangelism is when the Gospel, which is good news, is preached or presented to all people.
Billy Graham

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.
Billy Graham

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.
Billy Graham

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.
Billy Graham

We have an idea that we Americans are God’s chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God’s blessed. I tell you that God doesn’t love us any more than He does the Russians.
Billy Graham

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‘Is there any hope for the future?’ My answer is the same, ‘Yes, through Jesus Christ.’
Billy Graham

Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God’s word.
Billy Graham