Billy Graham Quotes

It is a time for soul-searching, a time to see if our anchor holds.

~ Billy Graham

The soul actually demands as much attention as the body . . . the soul was made for God, and without God it is restless and in secret torment.

~ Billy Graham

The searchlight of [God’s] Spirit will probe the inner depths of your soul and reveal things that you think you have already yielded, but you have not.

~ Billy Graham

The Bible teaches whether we are saved or lost, there is an everlasting existence of the soul.

~ Billy Graham

Hardship is not our choice; but if we face it bravely, it can toughen the fiber of our souls.

~ Billy Graham

Our soul is that part of our being which possesses intelligence, conscience, and memory—the real personality. Your body will die, but your soul lives on. And that soul has a “sixth sense”—the ability to believe, to have faith.

~ Billy Graham

Our souls set us apart from every other living creature, and that makes us unique. It also makes us fully human.

~ Billy Graham

Let [Christ] transform your life so that you will have a glow on your face, a spring in your step, and joy in your soul.

~ Billy Graham

Where do we get the notion that our idea of success and God’s are the same? You have written a book; you are a clever manager and promoter; you are a talented artist; you are independently wealthy; you have achieved fame and fortune. Without the gifts of intelligence, imagination, personality, and physical energy—which are all endowed by God—where would you be?

~ Billy Graham

Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God’s eyes is faithfulness to His calling.

~ Billy Graham

Regardless of our cleverness, our achievements, and our gadgets, we are spiritual paupers without God.

~ Billy Graham

Preach with authority. The authority for us is the Word of God. Preach with simplicity . . . Preach with urgency . . . heaven and hell are at stake. Preach for a decision.

~ Billy Graham

Thousands of pastors, Sunday school teachers, and Christian workers are powerless because they do not make the Word the source of their preaching or teaching.

~ Billy Graham

Nowhere in Mark 16:15—“Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” [KJV] — nor in any similar Scripture did Christ command us to go only into the Western or capitalist world. Nowhere did He say to exclude the Communist world.

~ Billy Graham

I have had the privilege of preaching the Gospel on every continent in most of the countries of the world, and I have found that when I present the simple message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, with authority, quoting from the very Word of God—He takes that message and drives it supernaturally into the human heart.

~ Billy Graham

When I preach—no matter where it is in the world—I can always count on five areas of human need that afflict all peoples. Emptiness, loneliness, guilt, fear of death, deep-seated insecurity.

~ Billy Graham

God’s strength is made perfect in weakness. The weaker I became, the more powerful became the preaching.

~ Billy Graham

Preachers are not salesmen, for they have nothing to sell. They are bearers of Good News.

~ Billy Graham

I’m not a great preacher, and I don’t claim to be a great preacher . . . I’m an ordinary preacher, just communicating the Gospel in the best way I know how.

~ Billy Graham

We preach Christ crucified. The cross is the focal point in the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. It was no afterthought or emergency measure with God. Christ was “the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world” [Revelation 3:8 KJV].

~ Billy Graham

Oh God, if You want me to preach, I will do it.

~ Billy Graham

As the people came to a desert place to hear John the Baptist proclaim, “Thus saith the Lord,” so [man] in his confusions, frustrations, and bewilderment will come to hear the minister who preaches with authority.

~ Billy Graham

I preach a Gospel not of despair but of hope for the individual, hope for society, and hope for the world.

~ Billy Graham

I am counting totally and completely on the Lord Jesus Christ, and not on Billy Graham. I am not going to heaven because I’ve read the Bible, nor because I’ve preached to a lot of people. I’m going to heaven because of what Christ did.

~ Billy Graham

I know that many of the things I have said from the Scriptures have offended some, but I cannot afford to tone down the message. As Paul said in 1 Corinthians 9:17, “I have a stewardship entrusted to me” (nasb), and that is to preach the pure and simple Gospel in whatever culture I am in.

~ Billy Graham

Many churches have their eyes on the culture instead of on Christ. Many pastors preach on common unity instead of calling the community to repent.

~ Billy Graham

When we preach or teach the Scriptures, we open the door for the Holy Spirit to do His work. God has not promised to bless oratory or clever preaching. He has promised to bless His Word.

~ Billy Graham

I must ask myself, “Billy Graham, are you prepared to meet the Master at any moment?” Yes, I am—but not because I have preached or tried to help people, but solely because I am trusting Christ as my Lord and Savior. Stop right now and ask yourself that question.

~ Billy Graham

Effective preaching must be biblical preaching, whether it is the exposition of a single word in the Bible, a text, or a chapter. The Word is what the Spirit uses.

~ Billy Graham

How marvelous it was to stand in a place like the Soviet Union and talk about the coming kingdom and to tell them that Communism will not win. I told them capitalism would not win either, it’s the kingdom of God that is going to win.

~ Billy Graham

Double-mindedness means the faculty of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind and accepting both of them. We talk out of both corners of our mouths at once.

~ Billy Graham

My visits to Hungary over the past twelve years absolutely fixed my conviction that God’s Holy Spirit was releasing a spiritual force in that part of the world that was bound to challenge the atheistic philosophy that had dominated nations in that region for decades.

~ Billy Graham

Only God knows when the alarm will sound, ending the work and ministry of evangelism as we have known it.

~ Billy Graham

I’ve never seen such a hunger in people for spiritual things . . .People realize the past is gone, the future is uncertain, and the present seems to be hopeless. As a result, many [in Moscow] were open to God.

~ Billy Graham

My visit to Auschwitz will certainly be one of the most unforgettable events of my life. It is a blot on the whole human race. It was the invention of minds so depraved and demonic that they defy any rational explanation. It reminds us of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

~ Billy Graham

I wept more in Korea than in all the past several years put together. These experiences changed my life. I could never be quite the same again . . . I felt sadder, older. I felt as though I had gone in a boy and come out a man.

~ Billy Graham

Nations and civilizations rise, flourish for a time, and then decay. Eventually each comes to an end. This, because of sin, is the decree of history and the way of life on this planet.

~ Billy Graham

Each of us has a tongue and a voice. These instruments of speech can be used destructively or employed constructively.

~ Billy Graham

Some of the most healing words in any language are, “I’m sorry. Will you forgive me?” How much more we need that confession to our Father in heaven.

~ Billy Graham

Our daily conversation when we meet each other, whether it be in the office or on the campus or in the shop, should be concerned with the things of God.

~ Billy Graham