Quotes by Billy Graham

If the other person would just do things my way, we could get along,” one says, when the other person is probably thinking the same about us—that leads to conflict. Our deepest problems are within ourselves.

Man boasts of his nobility, his ideals, and his progress. Man’s goal is imitation, not redemption.

Man persists in waywardness. If one institution fails [he says], try another—anything but God’s plan.

Some of the most miserable people I have ever met have been people who are very popular with the public, but down inside are empty and miserable.

Proclaiming “the whole will of God” should be the goal—and the joy—of every church and every preacher.

Our souls have a disease. It causes all the troubles and difficulties in the world. It causes all the troubles, confusions, and disillusionments in your own life. The name of the disease is . . . sin.

We spend all our time and energy pampering our bodies and minds, but if we ignore our souls, we will end up spiritually starved and malnourished.

Take care of your soul—your inner self—by feeding on the Word of God and letting His Spirit transform you from within.

Christ taught that in the sight of God one soul is worth the entire materialistic world! In God’s sight the individual is all-important. When Christ calls a man to follow Him, He calls him “out” from the “group.” Christ can fill the vacuums. He can restore your personal identity. He can become the truth to your generation.

Nothing can calm our souls more or better prepare us for life’s challenges than time spent alone with God.

You should no more allow sinful imaginations to accumulate in your mind and soul than you would let garbage collect in your living room.

I have not known of too many people who found Christ on their deathbeds. When we come to Christ in our youth, a life is saved. When we come in old age, a soul is salvaged and life eternal is assured; but the opportunity to live a life for Christ has been lost.

Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?

We spend enormous amounts of time and money on fad diets, expensive exercise machines, and health clubs. For many people, these things only demonstrate their preoccupation with the physical side of life . . . but even more important is taking care of our souls.

Partial education throughout the world is far worse than none at all if we educate the mind but not the soul.

Unless the soul is fed and exercised daily, it becomes weak and shriveled. It remains discontented, confused, restless.

God requires something of us. We must confess our spiritual poverty, renounce our sins, and turn by faith to His Son, Jesus Christ. When we do that, we are born again. He gives us a new nature. He puts a little bit of heaven down in our souls.

The Bible teaches that whether we are saved or lost, there is conscious and everlasting existence of the soul and personality.

May we all storm the gates of heaven for the souls of the anguished, that in their greatest time of need they will hear the gentle voice of God’s Spirit calling them to repentance.

The Bible teaches that you are an immortal soul. Your soul is eternal and will live forever . . . the real you—the part of you that thinks, feels, dreams, aspires; the ego, the personality—will never die . . . your soul will live forever in one of two places—heaven or hell.