Billy Graham Quotes

One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.

~ Billy Graham

This self-confident generation has produced more alcoholics, more drug addicts, more criminals, more wars, more broken homes, more assaults, more embezzlements, more murders, and more suicides . . .it is time all of us . . . begin to take stock of our failures, blunders, and costly mistakes. It is about time that we place less confidence in ourselves and more trust and faith in God.

~ Billy Graham

Escapism seems to be the order of the day . . .Escape with drugs or alcohol, and the bitterness of living will be blurred . . .We can’t escape from God.

~ Billy Graham

Researchers have found that peer pressure exerted within a clique has caused every one of its members to experiment with drugs, to engage in murderous gang fights, to steal autos, and to violate the seventh commandment.

~ Billy Graham

Liquor is not necessary either for health or for so-called gracious living . . .It is the cause of untold sorrow, suffering, and material loss, not to mention the spiritual implications of drinking.

~ Billy Graham

Drunkenness. This Greek word means overindulgence in alcohol. Alcohol may be used for medicine, but it can also become a terrible drug. The way it is used in our world is probably one of the great evils of our day. It is a self-inflicted impediment that springs from “a man taking a drink, a drink taking a drink, and drink taking the man.”Distilled liquors as we have them today were unknown in Bible times.12

~ Billy Graham

In Houston, Texas, a man was born again in one of our meetings. He owned a liquor store. The next morning he had a sign on the front of his door saying, “Out of business.

~ Billy Graham

Drinking has become one of the most serious social problems. It is basically the result of an attempt to escape from the responsibilities and realities of life.

~ Billy Graham

A senator once confided to me that the greatest need in Washington was the elimination of the cocktail party. He said: “It consumes so much of our time that we don’t have time for matters of state.

~ Billy Graham

Volumes could be written on the problem of [drug] addiction. Millions of barbiturates are swallowed every night to help the nation sleep. Millions of tranquilizers keep us calm during the day. Millions of pep pills wake us up in the morning. The Bible warns that these flights from reality bring no lasting satisfaction.

~ Billy Graham

The Greek word used in the New Testament to designate a sorcerer or a person who practiced occult magic is “pharmakeus,” or one who mixed drugs and used them to induce spells . . .Such practices are included in the list of “acts of the sinful nature” in Galatians 5:19–21 that God will judge.

~ Billy Graham

One of the bonuses of being a Christian is the glorious hope that extends out beyond the grave into the glory of God’s tomorrow.

~ Billy Graham

We are so caught up with the affairs of this life we give little attention to eternity.

~ Billy Graham

What you do with Christ here and now decides where you shall spend eternity.

~ Billy Graham

We glorify Christ when we live for God—trusting, loving, and obeying Him.

~ Billy Graham

When one bears suffering faithfully, God is glorified and honored.

~ Billy Graham

What greater glory can we anticipate than to stand before the throne of God, to humble ourselves before His great and incomparable majesty.

~ Billy Graham

Prayer serves a dual purpose, the blessing of man and the glory of God.

~ Billy Graham

Our voices, our service, and our abilities are to be employed, primarily, for the glory of God.

~ Billy Graham

One of the joys of heaven . . . will be discovering the hidden ways that God in His sovereignty acted in our lives on earth to protect and guide us [that we might] bring glory to His name, in spite of our frailty.

~ Billy Graham

Our dress, our posture, our actions should all be for the honor and glory of Christ. Much of our talk as Christians is secular, not spiritual. It is easy to fall into the conversational conformity of the world and spend an evening discussing politics, new cars, and the latest entertainment. We often forget that we are to edify one another with holy conversation and that our conversation should be on heavenly, and not exclusively on earthly things.

~ Billy Graham

We glorify God by living lives that honor Him.

~ Billy Graham

Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.

~ Billy Graham

Most people are living for today with barely a thought of eternity.

~ Billy Graham

How do we prepare for that last day? Before we embark on our final trip, have we left an earthly home in a state of chaos or a condition of order?

~ Billy Graham

[Multitudes] have never been born again. They will go into eternity lost—while thinking they are saved because they belong to the church, or were baptized.

~ Billy Graham

A Christian funeral should be a coronation ceremony, a statement to the world about eternal life.

~ Billy Graham

Where will we spend eternity—with God in that place of endless joy the Bible calls heaven, or apart from Him in that place of endless despair the Bible calls hell?

~ Billy Graham

Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

~ Billy Graham

God can use the fear that grips the hearts of men today to point them to eternal truths—the truth of God’s eternal judgment, and the truth of His eternal love.

~ Billy Graham

Jesus taught that there is an eternal destiny for each individual—either heaven or hell (John 5:25–29). The eternal destiny of each individual depends on a decision made in this life (Luke 16:19–31)—to be followed by a life of obedience.

~ Billy Graham

Christians should seek after holiness—without which no man shall see the Lord. Let us seek ardently the kind of life that reflects the beauty of Jesus and marks us as being what saints ought to be!

~ Billy Graham

What stirs God most is not physical suffering but sin. All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.

~ Billy Graham

As I read the Bible, I seem to find holiness to be [Christ’s] supreme attribute.

~ Billy Graham

If you belong to Jesus Christ, you are called to live a life of purity and holiness. God wants your mind to be shaped by Him so that your thoughts and goals reflect Christ.

~ Billy Graham

Don’t take the holiness of God lightly, for it is the very essence of His character.

~ Billy Graham

Compassion is not complete in itself, but must be accompanied by inflexible justice and wrath against sin and a desire for holiness.

~ Billy Graham

We do not fail to enjoy the fruit of the Spirit because we live in a sea of corruption, we fail to do so because the sea of corruption is in us.

~ Billy Graham

Disappointment and failure are not signs that God has forsaken you or stopped loving you. The devil wants you to believe God no longer loves you, but it isn’t true. God’s love for us never fails.

~ Billy Graham

[While] disappointment and failure aren’t identical, they often occur together, and both can hold us back from God’s best for our lives.

~ Billy Graham