Billy Graham Quotes

In our day many people are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, and emptiness have gripped much of our world.

~ Billy Graham

No area of human life is so full of difficulties and heartaches as relationships. If you listed everything that upset you during the past week, I suspect most had to do with other people. People can be selfless and kind, but they can also be difficult, stubborn, ego-driven, thoughtless, mean, selfish, manipulative. But the problem is not just other people; it’s also ourselves.

~ Billy Graham

Man is not growing better! Man is not climbing upward. Instead of progress in man himself there is degeneracy—degeneracy of body, mind, and spirit. Man is going downhill.

~ Billy Graham

Success stories may be great motivational material for sales seminars, but we are not always successful.

~ Billy Graham

Time and tide and the ravages of sin take their toll on the most noble achievements of man.

~ Billy Graham

Our job in life is not to be successful, but to be faithful.

~ Billy Graham

This age is interested in success, not suffering . . . Our Lord was ridiculed, insulted, persecuted, and eventually killed. In the face of opposition, He went about “doing good.

~ Billy Graham

Many of the wicked are receiving their wages now. Many Christians who may not be succeeding according to the world’s standards now, will reap great rewards in heaven.

~ Billy Graham

The Western world’s sole objective seems to be success, status, security, self-indulgence, pleasure, and comfort.

~ Billy Graham

Success or failure cannot be measured by any human standard.

~ Billy Graham

God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.

~ Billy Graham

God can take anything that happens to us—even bad things—and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person—if we will let Him.

~ Billy Graham

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

~ Billy Graham

Our personalities, our intelligence, and our capabilities are gifts from [God’s] own bountiful hand. If we divert their use for our own profit, we become guilty of selfishness.

~ Billy Graham

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

~ Billy Graham

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.

~ Billy Graham

A true servant of God is someone who helps another succeed.

~ Billy Graham

I am becoming aware of the truth that people change people as much as ideas change people.The power of personality is strong . . . often personality is greater than the idea.

~ Billy Graham

The Bible says that God sees two classes of men. He sees the saved and the lost, those who are going to heaven and those who are going to hell.

~ Billy Graham

Lying is one of the worst of all sins and can be committed by a thought, word, or deed. Anything that is intended to deceive another person is lying.

~ Billy Graham

As men and women seek to find independence from God, they have lost a sense of purpose in life. The worth of human personality is often equated with what we do for a living. However, a person’s occupation, community standing, or bank account is not what is important in God’s eyes.

~ Billy Graham

Tell me why the gardener trims and prunes his rosebushes, sometimes cutting away productive branches, and I will tell you why God’s people are afflicted. God’s hand never slips.

~ Billy Graham

All around you are people who need Christ: your family, your neighbors, people you work with or go to school with every day. Are you praying for them, asking God to open the door of their hearts to His truth?

~ Billy Graham

Someday all of us will give account of the way we have used the gifts God has given. The person to whom much has been given will find much required of him.

~ Billy Graham

I have never met a person who didn’t have problems of some kind. This is why we need one another’s encouragement.

~ Billy Graham

In our desire to achieve success quickly it is easy to get our values mixed up and call evil good and good evil.

~ Billy Graham

Instead of manipulating [people] for our own purposes, we’d help them achieve what is best for them. We’d also try to see life through their eyes. Treat others the way you would want them to treat you.

~ Billy Graham

If the other person would just do things my way, we could get along,” one says, when the other person is probably thinking the same about us—that leads to conflict. Our deepest problems are within ourselves.

~ Billy Graham

Man boasts of his nobility, his ideals, and his progress. Man’s goal is imitation, not redemption.

~ Billy Graham

Man persists in waywardness. If one institution fails [he says], try another—anything but God’s plan.

~ Billy Graham

Some of the most miserable people I have ever met have been people who are very popular with the public, but down inside are empty and miserable.

~ Billy Graham

Proclaiming “the whole will of God” should be the goal—and the joy—of every church and every preacher.

~ Billy Graham

Our souls have a disease. It causes all the troubles and difficulties in the world. It causes all the troubles, confusions, and disillusionments in your own life. The name of the disease is . . . sin.

~ Billy Graham

We spend all our time and energy pampering our bodies and minds, but if we ignore our souls, we will end up spiritually starved and malnourished.

~ Billy Graham

Take care of your soul—your inner self—by feeding on the Word of God and letting His Spirit transform you from within.

~ Billy Graham

Christ taught that in the sight of God one soul is worth the entire materialistic world! In God’s sight the individual is all-important. When Christ calls a man to follow Him, He calls him “out” from the “group.” Christ can fill the vacuums. He can restore your personal identity. He can become the truth to your generation.

~ Billy Graham

Nothing can calm our souls more or better prepare us for life’s challenges than time spent alone with God.

~ Billy Graham

You should no more allow sinful imaginations to accumulate in your mind and soul than you would let garbage collect in your living room.

~ Billy Graham

I have not known of too many people who found Christ on their deathbeds. When we come to Christ in our youth, a life is saved. When we come in old age, a soul is salvaged and life eternal is assured; but the opportunity to live a life for Christ has been lost.

~ Billy Graham

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

~ Billy Graham