Billy Graham Quotes

Conscience is our wisest counselor and teacher, our most faithful and most patient friend.

~ Billy Graham

You will never know the peace with God, peace of conscience, peace of mind, and peace of soul until you stand at the foot of the cross and identify yourself with Christ by faith . . . this is peace with God.

~ Billy Graham

Christ can rid you of inner conflict. Man without God is always torn between two urges. His nature prompts him to do wrong, and his conscience urges him to do right.

~ Billy Graham

In your own mind-darkened, will-paralyzed, conscience-dulled soul, God can make the light penetrate and turn the darkness of your own life into day, if you will let Him.

~ Billy Graham

We’ve tried calling sin “errors” or mistakes” or “poor judgment,” but sin itself has stayed the same. No matter how we try to salve our conscience, we’ve known all along that men are still sinners; and the results of sin are still disease, disappointment, disillusionment, despair, and death.

~ Billy Graham

Conscience tells us in our innermost being of the presence of God and of the moral difference between good and evil; but this is a fragmentary message, in no way as distinct and comprehensive as the lessons of the Bible.

~ Billy Graham

Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilty conscience were worse than prison bars.

~ Billy Graham

Dishonesty is never justified. God will never approve, and even your own conscience will rise up to condemn you sooner or later.

~ Billy Graham

The human conscience is often beyond the grasp of a psychiatrist . . .Humans are helpless to detach themselves from the gnawing guilt of a heart bowed down with the weight of sin. But where humans have failed, God has succeeded.

~ Billy Graham

The human conscience is reliable only when it is guided by the Holy Spirit.

~ Billy Graham

Some Christians have an elastic conscience when it comes to their own foibles—and an ironbound conscience when it comes to the foibles of others.

~ Billy Graham

Sin also affects the conscience, until one becomes slow to detect the approach of sin.

~ Billy Graham

There are storms in your own life: storms oftemptation, confusion, and difficulty . . .An uneasy conscience says, “Stop before it is too late!

~ Billy Graham

As a person finds God’s will for his or her life, matters of conscience can be handled with perception from the Holy Spirit.

~ Billy Graham

From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life.

~ Billy Graham

The one and only choice by which you can be converted is your choice to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as your own personal Lord and Savior. The word “conversion” means simply “turning.

~ Billy Graham

In every true conversion the will of man comes into line with the will of God.

~ Billy Graham

True conversion will involve the mind, the affection, and the will. There have been thousands of people who have been intellectually converted to Christ . . .but they have never been really converted to Him.

~ Billy Graham

The converted person will love the good he once hated, and hate the sin he once loved.

~ Billy Graham

To be a Christian is not a pious pose. It is not a long list of restrictions. Christianity flings open the windows to the real joy of living. Those who have been truly converted to Jesus Christ know the meaning of abundant living.

~ Billy Graham

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

~ Billy Graham

There are thousands of people who have had some form of emotional experience that they refer to as conversion but who have never been truly converted to Christ. Christ demands a change in the way you live—and if your life does not conform to your experience, then you have every reason to doubt your experience!

~ Billy Graham

It is a comfort to hear the words of God in times of stress.

~ Billy Graham

God doesn’t comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

~ Billy Graham

We should go to no place that we would not go in His Presence. But He is not with us just to judge or condemn us; He is near to comfort, protect, guide, encourage, strengthen, cleanse, and help.

~ Billy Graham

There are countless opportunities to comfort others, not only in the loss of a loved one, but also in the daily distress that so often creeps into our lives.

~ Billy Graham

Because tragedy happened to you, it gives you a greater sense of oneness with others who experience tragedy. Because we have been comforted through the Word of God, we in turn may be able to comfort others.

~ Billy Graham

When we are a comfort and encouragement to others, we are sometimes surprised at how it comes back to us many times over.

~ Billy Graham

Humanity wants comfort in its sorrow, light in its darkness, peace in its turmoil, rest in its weariness, and healing in its sickness and diseases: The Gospel gives all of this to us.

~ Billy Graham

If the church is acceptable to this present ageand is not suffering reproach, then it is not the true church that our Lord founded.

~ Billy Graham

The church should not reflect pop culture but portray godly attributes. The church should not seek pleasures but seek after God.

~ Billy Graham

The church is blending into the community by embracing what the world enjoys and, in turn, bringing inside the church the world’s ideas and interests.

~ Billy Graham

Christ’s church is a place to grow people up in the Lord, not to enhance our leisure time.

~ Billy Graham

Church is not for pretenders and performers. Church is a place for pastors to preach principles of the faith in order to prepare believers to face the storms of life on the stage of an unbelieving world.

~ Billy Graham

The church is in turmoil today. The church is not to reflect the world but to be a portrait of Jesus Christ.

~ Billy Graham

No church is perfect, but don’t let that discourage you. Someone has said that if you ever find one that is, it will stop being perfect the minute you join!

~ Billy Graham

The church should not be pampered but rather prepare for, and expect, persecution—for it is Christ’s body on earth.

~ Billy Graham

We have become so tolerant and accepting of the world’s ways that it is hard for many in the church to notice the sin much less answer how it crept in. The church is to be in the world, but worldliness is not to infiltrate the church.

~ Billy Graham

When the church begins to entertain the flock and respond to the cult of self—it is diminished to a mere community center.

~ Billy Graham

The fiercest storm is taking place in some of our churches—the unbelief and disobedience of God’s Word.

~ Billy Graham