Quotes from Billy Graham

In Christ alone there is deliverance from man's tortured thoughts and freedom from the sordid habits which are destroying so many people. Why does the Bible so clearly denounce drunkenness? Because it is an enemy of human life. Anything that is against a person's welfare, God is against.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16KJV).

Salvation is not just repairing the original self. It is a new self created of God in righteousness and true holiness.

What is your story? Be ready to share it when the Lord gives you the opportunity.

Almost nothing is as complex as the human personality, and no simple formula will ever cover every situation or every relationship.

Prayer and Bible study are inseparably linked. Effective prayer is born out of the prompting of God's Spirit as we read His Word.

Don't waste your life on things that have no eternal value.

If we in the church want a cause to fight, let's fight sin. Let's reveal its hideousness. Let's show that Jeremiah was correct when e said: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked" [Jeremiah 17:9 NKJV].

Once God leads you to make a decision, don't draw back. Instead, trust His leading, and believe He goes before you—because He does.

Affliction may be for our edification and Christian development.

The Bible teaches that Satan is the author of sin. Sin is the reason we have afflictions, including death. All of our problems and our suffering are a result of man's rebellion against God. But God has provided a rescue in His Son.

God] holds in His omnipotent hand the priceless, precious, eternal gift of salvation, and He bids you to take it without money and without price.

In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.

Our culture puts feelings first, but true love isn't based on feelings. That is why there are so many divorces today. When the early romantic feelings in a marriage do not remain constant . . .many people believe divorce is the answer.

People are little creatures with big capacities, finite beings with infinite desires, deserving nothing but demanding all. God made people with this huge capacity and desire in order that He might come in and completely satisfy that desire.

Worldliness is an inner attitude that puts self at the center of life instead of God.

Put whatever burden you are carrying into His hands— because He loves you, and nothing is too hard for Him.

In order to get to heaven, Jesus said that you must be converted. I didn't say it—Jesus said it!

The most important decision you will ever make is the decision you make about eternity.

Do not seek solace in alcohol. Alcohol obscures good judgment and leaves you unable to think clearly or understand what God is trying to say to you.

The Bible is the textbook of revelation. In God's great classroom there are three textbooks—one called nature, one called conscience, and one named Scripture. In the written textbook of revelation—the Bible—God speaks through words.

In some churches and religious television programs, we see an effort to make Christianity popular and always positive. This may be a comfortable cushion for those who find the hard facts too difficult.

One of the most important things God wants to teach us from the Old Testament is how not to live.

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. MATTHEW 19:24