Billy Graham Quotes

The focus on self has led our society into a fascination with pleasure, emotional and sexual stimulation, and “personal fulfillment.” America’s compulsion for “maximum personhood” is evidenced everywhere.

~ Billy Graham

Are you disappointed with society? If you are,I challenge you to take the first step. I challenge you to look at yourself.

~ Billy Graham

Today we see social evil, terrorism, and gross immorality throughout the world. Someone has said, “A wrong deed is right if the majority of people declare it not to be wrong.”By this principle we can see our standards shiftingfrom year to year according to the popular vote!This new permissiveness is condoned by intelligent men and women,many of whom are found in the churches.

~ Billy Graham

Our ministries are strengthened, sometimes more than we realize, by our devotional life.

~ Billy Graham

We must learn to let the Word of God feed us and strengthen us in our faith in God its author, Christ its message, and the Holy Spirit its teacher.

~ Billy Graham

Are your beliefs anchored in a faith that can withstand emotionalism, the drug culture, social and peer pressure, and material temptations? The world is seething with demonic energy. Only supreme inner strength can resist its ceaseless hassling.

~ Billy Graham

We shouldn’t think about ourselves and how weak we are. Instead, we should think about God and how strong He is.

~ Billy Graham

God will give us the strength and resources we need to live through any situation in life that He ordains.

~ 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 is in control. He may not take away trials or make detours for us, but He strengthens us through them.

~ Billy Graham

Grief can kill a person emotionally and physically. If not counteracted with God’s strength and power, our personal weakness may debilitate us.

~ Billy Graham

A muscle becomes weak if it is not used. To become strong, a muscle must push against something.

~ Billy Graham

Why do we need to pray? Because the Christian life is a journey, and we need God’s strength and guidance along the way.

~ Billy Graham

How can you keep your mind from wandering when you pray? Remember what you are doing: talking to God. If you had the opportunity to talk with the president, I doubt if your mind would wander. [We] have the privilege of talking to someone far greater: the King of kings!

~ Billy Graham

Prayer is not our using of God, it more often puts us in the position where God can use us.

~ Billy Graham

God welcomes our prayers. He is much more concerned about our hearts than our eloquence.

~ Billy Graham

A friend of mine defines prayer as “a declaration of dependence.

~ 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

Pray because Christ died to give us access to the Father. Pray because God is worthy of our praise. Pray because we need His forgiveness, cleansing, guidance, and protection. Pray because others need our prayers.

~ Billy Graham

Nothing can replace a daily time spent alone with God in prayer. We can also be in an attitude of prayer throughout the day—sitting in a car or at our desks, working in the kitchen, even talking with someone on the phone.

~ Billy Graham

Prayer is speaking to God— but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.

~ Billy Graham

Be sure that your motive in praying is to glorify God.

~ Billy Graham

Jesus demonstrated the importance of prayer by His own example. His whole ministry was saturated with prayer.

~ Billy Graham

We have not yet learned that we are more powerful on our knees than behind the most powerful weapons that can be developed.

~ Billy Graham

A life taught in the Scriptures, and tuned in to God in prayer, produces an outflowing of grace and power.

~ Billy Graham

God urges us to bring our concerns to Him—not just petitions about our own needs, but also intercessions for others. [The apostle] Paul said . . . “Brothers, pray for us” [1 Thessalonians 5:25 NIV].

~ Billy Graham

Often, we try to tell God what we want Him to do—but ask Him to help you guard against this, and to seek His will instead of your own. Pray and ask God to guide you.

~ Billy Graham

[God] says to pray for our enemies. How many of us have ever spent time praying for our enemies?

~ Billy Graham

A survey reported that the majority of the seminaries [in the United States] had no classes on prayer. That really shouldn’t surprise us when we consider how many local churches offer classes on gardening and the “Art of Conversation” instead of the study of God’s Word and prayer.

~ Billy Graham

Prayer is our lifeline to God.

~ Billy Graham

Prayer is not an option but a necessity.

~ Billy Graham

Prayer is the most powerful weapon we have in our spiritual arsenal to stand against the world’s greatest enemy, the one who presents himself as an angel of light [2 Corinthians 11:14].

~ Billy Graham

The best way to pray is to open the Bible and pray Scripture back to the Lord, claiming His promises and asking that He strengthen and guide [us] in obeying His Word.

~ Billy Graham

Prayer shouldn’t be a burden but a privilege—God wants our fellowship.

~ Billy Graham

Prayer is the companion of Bible study.

~ Billy Graham

I listened to a discussion of religious leaders on how to communicate the Gospel. Not once did I hear them mention prayer. And yet I know of scores of churches that win many converts each year by prayer alone.

~ Billy Graham

Prayer by itself is like a diet without protein! Prayer is important to our spiritual growth— but of even greater importance is God’s Word, the Bible.

~ Billy Graham

Long after you and I are gone, God will still be at work—and many of the things we prayed for will finally come to pass.

~ Billy Graham

That “the Spirit Himself intercedes” indicates that it is actually God pleading, praying, and mourning through us.

~ Billy Graham

Nothing will drive us to our knees quicker than trouble.

~ Billy Graham