Billy Graham Quotes

Christians, pray for an outpouring of God’s Spirit upon a willful, evil, unrepentant world.

~ Billy Graham

We aren’t only called to become Christians, we are also called to be Christians.

~ Billy Graham

As Christians we are constantly bombarded with attitudes and values which are contrary to biblical teaching.

~ Billy Graham

The faithful Christian steward acknowledges that God owns all he has, and it is his responsibility to manage and dispose of his possessions in a way that is acceptable to the Lord.

~ Billy Graham

I fear that so often we Christians give the idea that the truth is fiction by the way we live and by the lack of dedication to the teachings of our Lord.

~ Billy Graham

Don’t be a half-Christian. There are too many of such in the world. The world has a profound respect for people who are sincere in their faith.

~ Billy Graham

Too many so-called Christians are like the little chameleon which adapts its coloration to that of its surroundings. Even a critical world is quick to recognize a real Christian and just as quick to detect a counterfeit.

~ Billy Graham

Would Christ feel comfortable in an environment where men and women are consuming alcoholic beverages, gambling away their money, and engaging in conversation that is often filled with the baser things of life? It is a relevant question. As a Christian, Christ lives in you and you carry Him wherever you go. The Bible tells us to “come out from them and be separate” [2 Corinthians 6:17 NIV].

~ Billy Graham

For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world.

~ Billy Graham

There are too many professed Christians who never get “wrought up” about anything; they never get indignant with injustice, with corruption in high places, or with the godless traffics which barter away the souls and bodies of people.

~ Billy Graham

The Christian is not to be disturbed by thechaos, violence, strife, bloodshed, and threat of war that fill the pages of our daily newspapers. We know that these things are the consequences of man’s sin and greed. Every day as I read my newspaper I say: “The Bible is true.

~ Billy Graham

Christianity is a Gospel of crisis. It proclaims unmistakably that this world’s days are numbered.

~ Billy Graham

It is a tragic fact that the vast majority of Christians today are living a sub-normal Christian life.

~ Billy Graham

The greatest need in the world today is for fully committed Christians.

~ Billy Graham

It’s tough to be a Christian in our world. We need to be willing to take on Jesus’ unpopularity and the scorn that is often heaped on Him.

~ Billy Graham

There are Christians who have never really learned the biblical truth of separation: separation from unclean thoughts and unclean habits.

~ Billy Graham

Millions of professing Christians are only just that—“professing.” They have never possessed Christ. They live lives characterized by the flesh.

~ Billy Graham

Christianity is not an accretion, it is not something added. It is a new total outlook which is satisfied with nothing less than penetration to the furthest corners of the mind and the understanding.

~ Billy Graham

We have made Christianity too easy.

~ Billy Graham

Our generation has become well versed in Christian terminology but is remiss in the actual practice of Christ’s principles and teachings. Hence, our greatest need today is not more Christianity but more true Christians.

~ Billy Graham

All of Christianity is based on a person—Jesus Christ. Christ Himself is the embodiment of the Gospel.

~ Billy Graham

Christianity cannot expect the world to live the truths of the Gospel until it has the life that the Gospel provides in Christ. We Christians ought to be light and salt in the society in which we live.

~ Billy Graham

Christianity increases the scope and area of our lives.

~ Billy Graham

Christianity is not a spectator sport, it’s something in which we become totally involved.

~ Billy Graham

Affliction may be for our edification and Christian development.

~ Billy Graham

In some churches and religious television programs, we see an effort to make Christianity popular and always positive. This may be a comfortable cushion for those who find the hard facts too difficult.

~ Billy Graham

Christianity has its roots in the deep, firm soil of history. Jesus’ incarnation—God invading human history with His presence in the form of man—is on the record. Every time you write the date, you attest to the fact that God entered human history.

~ Billy Graham

I believe there is an obedience to the Gospel, there is a self-denial and a bearing of the cross, if you are to be a follower of Christ. Being a Christian is a serious business.

~ Billy Graham

If it is Christian, it will be Bible-centered.

~ Billy Graham

Christianity has no shrines to visit, no dusty remains to venerate, no tombs at which to worship.

~ Billy Graham

Only the Christian faith claims that its Leader died and rose again and is alive at this moment. Many gravestones carry the inscription, “Here lies . . . ,” but on Christ’s tomb are emblazoned the words, “He is not here.

~ Billy Graham

Christians should be a foreign influence, a minority group in a pagan world.

~ Billy Graham

The secret of the power of Christianity is not in its ethics. It is not in Christian ideas or philosophy . . .the secret of Christianity is found . . . in the Lord Jesus Christ.

~ Billy Graham

If we have our eyes upon ourselves, our problems, and our pain, we cannot lift our eyes upward. A child looks up when he’s walking with his father, and the same should be true for the Christian.

~ Billy Graham

What makes us Christians shrug our shoulders when we ought to be flexing our muscles? What makes us apathetic in a day when there are loads to lift, a world to be won, and captives to be set free? Why are so many bored, when the times demand action? Christ told us that in the last days there would be an insipid attitude toward life.

~ Billy Graham

To a sinner, a righteous person is an oddity and an abnormality. A Christian’s goodness is a rebuke to the wicked; his being right-side up is a reflection upon the worldling’s inverted position.

~ Billy Graham

Ninety-five percent of the difficulties you will experience as a Christian can be traced to a lack of Bible study and reading.

~ Billy Graham

God says it is our duty as Christians to take care of widows and orphans and to help the poor within the Christian society . . .And Jesus said, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me” Matthew 25:40 KJV].

~ Billy Graham

We must have a virile, dynamic, aggressive Christian who lives Christ seven days a week, who is ready to die, if necessary, for his faith.

~ Billy Graham

We can never live this [Christian] life on the highest plane unless we are continually growing and moving forward. You should be closer to God today in heart, soul, and body than at any other time so far in your life.

~ Billy Graham