Quotes by Billy Graham

Many of the wicked are receiving their wages now. Many Christians who may not be succeeding according to the world’s standards now, will reap great rewards in heaven.

The Western world’s sole objective seems to be success, status, security, self-indulgence, pleasure, and comfort.

Success or failure cannot be measured by any human standard.

God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.

God can take anything that happens to us—even bad things—and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person—if we will let Him.

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

Our personalities, our intelligence, and our capabilities are gifts from [God’s] own bountiful hand. If we divert their use for our own profit, we become guilty of selfishness.

Almost nothing is as complex as the human personality, and no simple formula will ever cover every situation or every relationship.

People are little creatures with big capacities, finite beings with infinite desires, deserving nothing but demanding all. God made people with this huge capacity and desire in order that He might come in and completely satisfy that desire.

A true servant of God is someone who helps another succeed.

I am becoming aware of the truth that people change people as much as ideas change people.The power of personality is strong . . . often personality is greater than the idea.

The Bible says that God sees two classes of men. He sees the saved and the lost, those who are going to heaven and those who are going to hell.

Lying is one of the worst of all sins and can be committed by a thought, word, or deed. Anything that is intended to deceive another person is lying.

As men and women seek to find independence from God, they have lost a sense of purpose in life. The worth of human personality is often equated with what we do for a living. However, a person’s occupation, community standing, or bank account is not what is important in God’s eyes.

Tell me why the gardener trims and prunes his rosebushes, sometimes cutting away productive branches, and I will tell you why God’s people are afflicted. God’s hand never slips.

All around you are people who need Christ: your family, your neighbors, people you work with or go to school with every day. Are you praying for them, asking God to open the door of their hearts to His truth?

Someday all of us will give account of the way we have used the gifts God has given. The person to whom much has been given will find much required of him.

I have never met a person who didn’t have problems of some kind. This is why we need one another’s encouragement.

In our desire to achieve success quickly it is easy to get our values mixed up and call evil good and good evil.

Instead of manipulating [people] for our own purposes, we’d help them achieve what is best for them. We’d also try to see life through their eyes. Treat others the way you would want them to treat you.