Billy Graham Quotes

The Bible warns us against greed and selfishness, it does encourage frugality and thrift.

~ Billy Graham

The Bible sees greed as a form of idolatry, because a greedy person worships things instead of God. Greed and envy have their roots in selfishness.

~ Billy Graham

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

~ Billy Graham

Everything that we see about us that we count is our possessions only comprises a loan from God, and it is when we lose sight of this all-pervading truth that we become greedy and covetous.

~ Billy Graham

Life is not a matter of dollars and cents, houses and lands, earning capacity and financial achievement. Greed must not be allowed to make man the slave of wealth.

~ Billy Graham

What is the authority in your life? Is it your selfishness? Your lust? Your greed? Or have you turned it all over to God and said, “Lord, You are going to be my authority”? When you are under authority, you are then able to assume authority.

~ Billy Graham

We have seen the results of unrestrained greed, corruption, and manipulation on Wall Street, financial mismanagement in the halls of government, fraud and perversion at the highest levels of both church and state. Many people sense the possibility of an even greater unraveling in the world. We are constantly confronted by the realities of new problems in this age of crisis.

~ Billy Graham

It is not wrong to want to work and earn a decent living; in fact, God has given work to us. But this legitimate desire can very easily cross the line into greed—especially in our materialistic society.

~ Billy Graham

Greed is an unreasonable or all-absorbing desire to acquire things or wealth. One test of greed is that it is never satisfied. Greed is repeatedly condemned in the Bible.

~ Billy Graham

We need to be on guard against greed . . . above all we need to make sure our lives are centered in Christ and not things.

~ Billy Graham

Exercise and proper eating habits are very important, since the Bible says that the body is God’s holy temple, but I don’t think that superbodies equate with committed Christian discipleship. Some of the greatest saints I’ve known have been those with physical infirmities.

~ Billy Graham

Let us always remember that Christ calls men and women not only to trust Him as Savior, but also to follow Him as Lord. That call to discipleship must be part of our message if we are to be faithful to Him.

~ Billy Graham

To be a disciple is to be committed to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and committed to following Him every day. To be a disciple is also to be disciplined in our bodies, minds, and souls.

~ Billy Graham

Our minds must be set always to seek the will of the Lord. Following the progressive discipline revealed through the Bible will result in a walk of obedience to God.

~ Billy Graham

God does not discipline us to subdue us but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness. In His wisdom, He knows that an uncontrolled life is an unhappy life, so He puts reins on our wayward souls that they may be directed into the paths of righteousness.

~ Billy Graham

It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language. The most common word in the Gospels for a Christian is disciple.

~ Billy Graham

Christ never told his disciples that they would get an Academy Award for their performances, but He did tell them to expect to have troubles.

~ Billy Graham

Jesus Christ spoke frankly to His disciples concerning the future . . .In unmistakable language He told them that discipleship means a life of self-denial, and the bearing of a cross.

~ Billy Graham

Many Christians want the benefits of their belief, but they hesitate at the cost of discipleship.

~ Billy Graham

To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high.

~ Billy Graham

We are commissioned to make disciples, to bring them into the same direct relationship with Christ as those who left their nets and their fishing boats to become “fishers of men.

~ Billy Graham

An evangelist is like a newscaster on television or a journalist writing for a newspaper . . . except that the evangelist’s mission is to tell the Good News that never changes.

~ Billy Graham

During all my years as an evangelist,my message has always been the Gospel of Christ.It is not a Western religion, nor is it a message of one culture or political system . , .it is a message of life and hope for all the world.

~ Billy Graham

God called me many years ago to be an evangelist, and I have never regretted His leading. I love the crusades, meeting people from every country and culture all over the world. My life has been blessed by friends from every land, and challenges from every corner.

~ Billy Graham

Itinerant evangelists are the most important ambassadors and messengers on earth. They are a mighty army, spreading out across the world with a vision to reach their own people for Christ.

~ Billy Graham

Some evangelists spend too much time thinking and even planning about how to achieve visible results. This is an easy trap to fall into.

~ Billy Graham

Nowhere do the Scriptures tell us to seek results, nor do the Scriptures rebuke evangelists if the results are meager.

~ Billy Graham

The evangelist cannot bring conviction of sin, righteousness, or judgment; that is the Spirit’s work. They cannot convert anyone; that is the Spirit’s work.

~ Billy Graham

The Bible opens with a tragedy and ends in a triumph.

~ Billy Graham

The Bible is God’s love letter to us.

~ Billy Graham

The whole world ought to know the story of the Bible.

~ Billy Graham

When you are told that science has disproved the Bible, ask specifically where such is the case. True science and a true understanding of the Bible are never at variance.

~ Billy Graham

The Bible is a living Book and can be trusted for its advice and direction and knowledge of God.

~ Billy Graham

[God] speaks from heaven through the Bible, His written Word. This is why I use the phrase “the Bible says.” I would not have the authority to say what I do in sermons unless it was based upon the Word of God.

~ Billy Graham

We should read the Bible expectantly, systematically, and obediently . . .The Bible can change our lives as we read it and obey its teachings every day.

~ Billy Graham

God has spoken to us through a Book: the Bible.

~ Billy Graham

No book ever takes the place of the Bible. It is its own best commentary.

~ Billy Graham

Most of us do not understand nuclear fission, but we accept it . . . Why is it so easy to accept manmade miracles and so difficult to accept the miracles of the Bible?

~ Billy Graham

The Bible is God’s gift to us. It came from God, and it points us to God.

~ Billy Graham

The Bible is a guidebook, leading men [and women] to God in a personal faith. Like a map or guidebook, it will show you the way, but you must take it one step at a time.

~ Billy Graham