Quotes by Billy Graham

We don’t live in an ideal world, but in a world dominated by sinful, selfish desires.

Much of the world believes little or nothing. People are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, emptiness, and meaninglessness have gripped much of the world—and even the church . . . By contrast, our Pilgrim forebears stand as shining examples of men who were narrow but deep, certain of what they believed, unswerving in their loyalty, and passionately dedicated to the God they trusted, and for whom they would willingly have died.

Worldliness is an inner attitude that puts self at the center of life instead of God.

Too many times we are concerned with how much, instead of how little, like this [world] we can become.

The saddest words I can ever imagine would be to hear the Lord say, “I never knew you. Away from Me” [Matthew 7:23 NIV].

It often takes a tragedy to open our hearts, minds, and wills to the truth of God’s Word.

While those around you are filling their minds with the bad news about man in their daily papers, steep yourself in the good news about God in His precious Word!

Don’t argue with [a professor], but test everything he says in the light of God’s Word.

We need to fortify ourselves with the Word of God.

I look upon it as a lost day when I have not had a good time over the Word of God.

Some, who doubt that the Bible is the true Word of God, doubt it because they are unwilling to ascribe to God anything they cannot themselves achieve.

[God the Spirit] will never lead you contrary to the Word of God. I hear people saying, “The Lord led me to do this . . .” I am always a little suspicious unless what the Lord has said is in keeping with His Word.

Your spiritual life needs food . . . where do you find [this]? In the Bible, the Word of God. The Bible reveals Christ, who is the Bread of Life for your hungry soul, and the Water of Life for your thirsty heart.

God has not promised to bless my thoughts, but He has promised to bless His Word.

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God’s Word.

As Christians, we have only one authority, one compass: the Word of God.

Nothing will help us grow spiritually more than spending time alone with God every day, reading His Word and praying. Time alone with God is essential to our spiritual welfare.

The Old Testament may not seem relevant to us today—but it is, because it is part of God’s Holy Word, and He has much to teach us through its pages.

Through the written Word we discover the Living Word—Jesus Christ.

God never leads us to do anything that is contrary to His Word. But the opposite is also true: God always leads us to do everything that is in agreement with His Word.