Quotes by Billy Graham

“I can tell you that God is alive because I talked to him this morning.”

“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”

“The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.”

“Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.”

“Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.”

“The word romance, according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.”

“In my travels I have found that those who keep Heaven in view remain serene and cheerful in the darkest day. If the glories of Heaven were more real to us, if we lived less for material things and more for things eternal and spiritual, we would be less easily disturbed by this present life.”

“People have become so empty that they cant even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling--that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.”

“God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.”

“The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.”

“God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.”

“It is not the bodys posture, but the hearts attitude that counts when we pray.”

“Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.”

“A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.”

It is the Holy Spirits job to convict, Gods job to judge and my job to love.

Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.

Science is learning to control everything but man.

The blessing of knowledge becomes a curse when we pervert it.

If ever a generation was bequeathed the knowledge of God, we were. Yet we are throwing away this glorious heritage on our lust and passions.

The more man learns, the less he knows.