Billy Graham Quotes

The Bible teaches that there will be a famine of the Word of God in the last days . . . spiritual starvation leads to spiritual death.

~ Billy Graham

Confrontation is the special business of young people. They confront their parents, peers, society, law enforcement officers, and themselves, but primarily they confront God.

~ Billy Graham

What is the most difficult word for young people to pronounce? It’s the word no. When we say no [to what is against God], He will help us to stand by it. He will give us courage.

~ Billy Graham

I am in favor of hanging the Ten Commandments in every schoolroom in the country so young people can know the difference between right and wrong. They don’t know the difference and we’re seeing the evidence of that all around us every day.

~ Billy Graham

I come in contact with mixed-up people, young men and women caught in the anguish of their own unpreparedness, intellectuals who have been seduced by false science, and rich men held in the grip of insecurity. They have no commitment to any goal. They lack an anchorage for their real self. And I long to take every one of them by the hand and lead them into the presence of the One who said, “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” [Matthew 11:28 KJV].

~ Billy Graham

It is strange that the world accepts enthusiasm in every realm but the spiritual.

~ Billy Graham

We don’t live in an ideal world, but in a world dominated by sinful, selfish desires.

~ Billy Graham

Much of the world believes little or nothing. People are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, emptiness, and meaninglessness have gripped much of the world—and even the church . . . By contrast, our Pilgrim forebears stand as shining examples of men who were narrow but deep, certain of what they believed, unswerving in their loyalty, and passionately dedicated to the God they trusted, and for whom they would willingly have died.

~ Billy Graham

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

~ Billy Graham

Too many times we are concerned with how much, instead of how little, like this [world] we can become.

~ Billy Graham

The saddest words I can ever imagine would be to hear the Lord say, “I never knew you. Away from Me” [Matthew 7:23 NIV].

~ Billy Graham

It often takes a tragedy to open our hearts, minds, and wills to the truth of God’s Word.

~ Billy Graham

While those around you are filling their minds with the bad news about man in their daily papers, steep yourself in the good news about God in His precious Word!

~ Billy Graham

Don’t argue with [a professor], but test everything he says in the light of God’s Word.

~ Billy Graham

We need to fortify ourselves with the Word of God.

~ Billy Graham

I look upon it as a lost day when I have not had a good time over the Word of God.

~ Billy Graham

Some, who doubt that the Bible is the true Word of God, doubt it because they are unwilling to ascribe to God anything they cannot themselves achieve.

~ Billy Graham

[God the Spirit] will never lead you contrary to the Word of God. I hear people saying, “The Lord led me to do this . . .” I am always a little suspicious unless what the Lord has said is in keeping with His Word.

~ Billy Graham

Your spiritual life needs food . . . where do you find [this]? In the Bible, the Word of God. The Bible reveals Christ, who is the Bread of Life for your hungry soul, and the Water of Life for your thirsty heart.

~ Billy Graham

God has not promised to bless my thoughts, but He has promised to bless His Word.

~ Billy Graham

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God’s Word.

~ Billy Graham

As Christians, we have only one authority, one compass: the Word of God.

~ Billy Graham

Nothing will help us grow spiritually more than spending time alone with God every day, reading His Word and praying. Time alone with God is essential to our spiritual welfare.

~ Billy Graham

God’s Word not only gives authority to one’s ministry, it provides a solid foundation for one’s life.

~ Billy Graham

The Old Testament may not seem relevant to us today—but it is, because it is part of God’s Holy Word, and He has much to teach us through its pages.

~ Billy Graham

Through the written Word we discover the Living Word—Jesus Christ.

~ Billy Graham

God never leads us to do anything that is contrary to His Word. But the opposite is also true: God always leads us to do everything that is in agreement with His Word.

~ Billy Graham

The Word of God hidden in the heart is a stubborn voice to suppress.

~ Billy Graham

Who can tell us how to get along with each other better than God? Where can we turn for wisdom better than God’s Word, the Bible?

~ Billy Graham

O God! There are many things in [the Bible] I do not understand . . . I am going to accept this as Thy Word—by faith! I’m going to allow faith to go beyond my intellectual questions and doubts, and I will believe this to be Your inspired Word.

~ Billy Graham

A computer . . . has no worth unless it is programmed . . . The believer has tremendous potential, but that potential cannot be used until he is programmed with the Word of God.

~ Billy Graham

The Spirit of God takes the Word of God and makes the child of God.

~ Billy Graham

When I quote Scripture, I know I am quoting the very Word of God.

~ Billy Graham

Scientific discoveries (not theories) are found more and more to fit into the record God has given us in His Word.

~ Billy Graham

The fact that God is infinite makes the study of His Word a lifetime occupation.

~ Billy Graham

Oh that we would hunger to be filled with the Word of God; for there is no greater armor, no greater strength, no greater assurance that He is with us, and in us, when we go forth in battle equipped and nourished by His instruction and determined to stand firm on His promises.

~ Billy Graham

God and God’s Word are inseparable.

~ Billy Graham

I have never known a man who received Christ and ever regretted it.

~ Billy Graham

Compared to when I was a boy, we now live in reverse. The people are locked up in their homes at night and criminals are outside on the loose! When I was young, the criminals were locked up and the people were free to move about. That time has passed for many cities.

~ Billy Graham

The central theme of the universe is the purpose and destiny of every individual. Every person is important in God’s eyes.

~ Billy Graham