Billy Graham Quotes

If we are living according to what we believe, we may be falsely accused.

~ Billy Graham

Make it your goal to become more like Christ by refusing to let sin have its way, and pursuing instead that which is pure and good in the sight of God.

~ Billy Graham

We often seek to please ourselves first, instead of God. What is interesting is that when we seek to please God first, very often we discover that we end up far more pleased than we did when we put ourselves first.

~ Billy Graham

I am engaged in spiritual warfare every day. I must never let down my guard—I must keep armed.

~ Billy Graham

Being” is far more important than “doing.” When we are what we should be inside, we will bring forth fruit.

~ Billy Graham

Submission . . . involves getting rid of everything which hinders God’s control over our lives.

~ Billy Graham

Whatever is unlike Christ in conduct, speech, or disposition grieves the Spirit of grace.

~ Billy Graham

To be Spirit-filled is to be controlled or dominated by the Spirit’s presence and power.

~ Billy Graham

The lives of many reflect the practices and standards of this present world . . . they are more interested in imitating the world system dominated by Satan than in imitating Christ.

~ Billy Graham

When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God.

~ Billy Graham

We have been told by God that if we sin against Him and break His commandments, He will bring judgment upon the world. It is my responsibility and my duty as a minister of the Gospel to [warn] people. This is the message I must deliver.

~ Billy Graham

Denying the existence of God cannot make Him go away any more than denying the existence of the Internal Revenue Service can make the tax man vanish. Many people who imagine a god of their own choosing will be horrified when they stand before the true God of heaven.

~ Billy Graham

Extremes should be avoided.

~ Billy Graham

[Our] minds are molded in many different ways— often in ways we are not aware of at the time. I am convinced that many things—the films we watch, the television we see, the music we listen to, the books we read—have a great effect on us.

~ Billy Graham

The more we yield to pressure, the more easily we will yield next time.

~ Billy Graham

Delighting in the Lord alters the desires.

~ Billy Graham

Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.

~ Billy Graham

Most of us know about God, but that is quite different from knowing God.

~ Billy Graham

The wheels of [God’s] mercy and justice move quietly and silently, but they do move.

~ Billy Graham

God is not bound by a body, yet He is a Person. He feels, He thinks, He loves, He forgives, He sympathizes with the problems and sorrows that we face.

~ Billy Graham

If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.

~ Billy Graham

God can be everywhere at once, heeding the prayers of all who call out in the name of Christ; performing the mighty miracles that keep the stars in their places, and the plants bursting up through the earth, and the fish swimming in the sea. There is no limit to God. There is no limit to His wisdom. There is no limit to His power. There is no limit to His love. There is no limit to His mercy.

~ Billy Graham

Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn’t in you. Church can become a drab thing and the Bible an irksome Book if the Holy Spirit does not illuminate your soul with His indwelling presence.

~ Billy Graham

At this crucial point in world history, everyone should be seeking an answer to the question, “What is God like?” Everyone should ask it, and everyone should make very sure of the answer . . . The Bible says, “. . . God has shown it to them” [Romans 1:19 NKJV].

~ Billy Graham

Nothing in our lives takes God by surprise.

~ Billy Graham

God is not a bargaining God. You cannot barter with Him. You must do business with Him on His own terms.

~ Billy Graham

If we read the Bible as carefully and as regularly as we read the daily papers, we would be as familiar with and as well informed about God as we are about our favorite player’s batting average during baseball season!

~ Billy Graham

We have a conception that God is a haphazard God with no set of rules of life and salvation. Ask the astronomer if God is a haphazard God. He will tell you that every star moves with precision in its celestial path.

~ Billy Graham

If you have been trying to limit God—stop it! Don’t try to confine Him or His works to any single place or sphere. You wouldn’t try to limit the ocean.

~ Billy Graham

Getting to know God and being able to call on Him is the most important step in storing up for the storms.

~ Billy Graham

God began by revelation to build a bridge between Himself and people.

~ Billy Graham

To live the life of God we must have the nature of God.

~ Billy Graham

Your yearning for God must supersede all other desires. It must be like a gnawing hunger and a burning thirst.

~ Billy Graham

Remember that “where God guides, He provides. Where He leads, He supplies all needs.

~ Billy Graham

Has God designated any one person here on earth to speak with final authority about Him? No—the one Man who could do that lived two thousand years ago, and we crucified Him!

~ Billy Graham

God says that we can learn a great deal about Him just by observing nature. Because He has spoken through His universe, all men are without excuse for not believing in Him. This is why the Psalmist said: “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God” [Psalm 14:1 KJV].

~ Billy Graham

If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God’s mercy.

~ Billy Graham

If we believe in what God made and what God said, we will believe in the One whom God sent.

~ Billy Graham

We must practice the Presence of God. Jesus said, “Lo, I am with you always” [Matthew 28:20]. Remember, Christ is always near us.

~ Billy Graham

There are those who say that all roads lead to God. But Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” [John 14:6 KJV].

~ Billy Graham