Billy Graham Quotes

Every graveyard and every cemetery testify that the Bible is true.

~ Billy Graham

Make the Bible part of your daily life, and ask God to engrave its truths on your soul.

~ Billy Graham

The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.

~ Billy Graham

Discover the Bible for yourself.

~ Billy Graham

If I stick to the Bible and preach the principles and the teachings of the Bible, and quote the Bible, it has an impact of its own.

~ Billy Graham

We can trust the Bible because it points us to the most important events in human history: the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

~ Billy Graham

From one end of the Bible to the other, God assures us that He will never go back on His promises.

~ Billy Graham

Come back to the Bible. Begin to read it. Study it and God will speak to you and change you—and through you perhaps history can be changed.

~ Billy Graham

The Bible is actually a library of books—some long, some short—written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one, however, was [the] Author: the Spirit of God.

~ Billy Graham

We have so many battles going on in America today that we should be a people of prayer. Our government needs prayer. Our leaders need prayer. Our schools need prayer. Our youth need our prayers. Our families need our prayers.

~ Billy Graham

America’s Declaration of Independence speaks of “the pursuit of happiness,” but nowhere in the Bible are we told to pursue this. Happiness is elusive, and we don’t find it by seeking it.

~ Billy Graham

Just as America has grown and prospered within the framework of our Constitution, so Christianity has flourished and spread according to the laws set forth in the Bible.

~ Billy Graham

[God] alone is perfect. Even His anger is righteous, because it is directed solely against evil.

~ Billy Graham

Every destructive emotion bears its own harvest, but anger’s fruit is the most bitter of all.

~ Billy Graham

Can we overcome our anger, instead of constantly being overcome by it? Yes—with God’s help. Peter’s anger was channeled into boldness for Christ. Paul’s anger against Christians was replaced with a burning passion to spread the Gospel. Is this your goal?

~ Billy Graham

Anger flees when the Spirit’s fruit fills our hearts.

~ Billy Graham

On the cross Christ took upon Himself every sin we’ve ever committed—including anger.

~ Billy Graham

If you have been harboring anger or bitterness or jealousy in your heart toward someone—a parent, an ex-spouse, a boss—hand it over to Christ, and ask Him to help you let it go.

~ Billy Graham

There are many irritations in life. They become prime opportunities for Satan to lead us into evil passion. Keep anger clear of bitterness, spite, or hatred.

~ Billy Graham

Anger makes us lash out at others, destroying relationships and revealing our true nature. The history of the human race is largely the history of its anger.

~ Billy Graham

Bitterness is anger gone sour, an attitude of deep discontent that poisons our souls and destroys our peace.

~ Billy Graham

We get angry when others hurt us, both by what they say and what they do. We get angry when we don’t get our own way or our plans and dreams are frustrated. Anger may arise in an instant, erupting like a volcano and raining destruction on everyone in sight. Often, anger simmers just below the surface, sometimes for a lifetime. Like a corrosive acid, this kind of anger eats away at our bodies and souls, yet we may not even be aware of its presence.

~ Billy Graham

Don’t let the acids of bitterness eat away inside. Learn the secret of trusting Christ in every circumstance.

~ Billy Graham

America has probably been the most successful experiment in history. The American Dream was a glorious attempt. It was built on a religious foundation. Its earliest concepts came from Holy Scripture.

~ Billy Graham

Don’t let hatred control you, no matter what others do that causes [anger]. You would only become guilty of the same sin that afflicts them, and nothing would be solved.

~ Billy Graham

When someone hurts us, our natural instinct is to strike back—but when we do, we not only destroy any possibility of reconciliation, but we also allow anger and hate to control us.

~ Billy Graham

You can put a public school and university in the middle of every block of every city in America—but you will never keep America from rotting morally by mere intellectual education.

~ Billy Graham

I believe America has gone a long way down the wrong road. If we ever needed God’s help, it is now.

~ Billy Graham

God honored and blessed America as few nations in history. However, in recent years the nation has been moving away from its religious heritage.

~ Billy Graham

We must face honestly the toll that anger and bitterness take on our lives. They are our enemies! The Bible says, “An angry person stirs up dissension, and a hot-tempered one commits many sins.

~ Billy Graham

America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest variety and greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can’t even entertain themselves.

~ Billy Graham

A terrifying spiritual and moral tide of evil has already loosed us from our spiritual moorings. Monstrous new ideas that could easily destroy our freedoms are rushing into the vacuum.

~ Billy Graham

Nations rise, they flourish for a time, and then they decline. Eventually every empire comes to an end; not even the greatest can last forever.

~ Billy Graham

There is no doubt that nations come to an end when they have ceased to fulfill the function that God meant for them.

~ Billy Graham

The secret strength of a nation is found in the faith that abides in the hearts and homes of the country.

~ Billy Graham

We talk out of both corners of our mouth at once. We say we are a Christian nation, but much of our literature, our social practices, our deep interests are not Christian at all. They are totally secular.

~ Billy Graham

Spiritually, we have wandered far from the faith of our fathers . . . no nation which relegates the Bible to the background, which disregards the love of God and flouts the claims of the Man of Galilee, can long survive.

~ Billy Graham

No form of government has been able to establish righteousness, justice, and peace, the three elements without which we can never have continued national prosperity or international peace.

~ Billy Graham

Our government is certainly going to fall like a rope of sand if unsupported by the moral fabric of God’s Word. The moral structure in our country grew from Judeo-Christian roots. When those values are applied, they produce moral fruits. But if that structure disappears, the moral sentiment that shapes our nation’s goals will disappear with it.

~ Billy Graham

We face dangers every day of which we are not even aware. Often God intervenes on our behalf through the use of His angels.

~ Billy Graham