Quotes from Billy Graham

'Hope and change' has become a cliche in our nation, and it is daunting to think that any American could hope for change from what God has blessed.

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.

Commitment to great causes makes great men.

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.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon our shoulder and this brief message will be given: "Come home.

... the same hand that made trees and fields and flowers, the seas and hills, the clouds and sky, has been making a home for us called heaven.

At great cost to Himself, God has made it possible for each of us to live with Him eternally. Those who reject God's offer of a heavenly home will be assigned to hell.

The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest. If the home deteriorates, civilization will crumble and fall.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Our world is constantly changing but the needs of our hearts remain the same, and so does God's power to transform our lives and give us hope for the future.

The greatest need in the world at this moment is the transformation of human nature.

Death wasn't part of God's original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy - the last enemy to be destroyed.

The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.

Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

Our faith becomes stronger as we express it; a growing faith is a sharing faith

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.

We go on in our pleasures thinking they're going to last forever.

I'm the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour.

I know God is in charge. Not me, I'm nothing. I wouldn't be anything except for the power of the spirit of God.

Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift-the gift that liberates souls from sin's power.

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.'

We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.