Quotes by Billy Graham

Even in the darkest moment, before death snatches man’s last breath, God is willing to save a lost soul.

It is a time for soul-searching, a time to see if our anchor holds.

The soul actually demands as much attention as the body . . . the soul was made for God, and without God it is restless and in secret torment.

The searchlight of [God’s] Spirit will probe the inner depths of your soul and reveal things that you think you have already yielded, but you have not.

The Bible teaches whether we are saved or lost, there is an everlasting existence of the soul.

Hardship is not our choice; but if we face it bravely, it can toughen the fiber of our souls.

Our soul is that part of our being which possesses intelligence, conscience, and memory—the real personality. Your body will die, but your soul lives on. And that soul has a “sixth sense”—the ability to believe, to have faith.

Our souls set us apart from every other living creature, and that makes us unique. It also makes us fully human.

Let [Christ] transform your life so that you will have a glow on your face, a spring in your step, and joy in your soul.

Where do we get the notion that our idea of success and God’s are the same? You have written a book; you are a clever manager and promoter; you are a talented artist; you are independently wealthy; you have achieved fame and fortune. Without the gifts of intelligence, imagination, personality, and physical energy—which are all endowed by God—where would you be?

Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God’s eyes is faithfulness to His calling.

Regardless of our cleverness, our achievements, and our gadgets, we are spiritual paupers without God.

Preach with authority. The authority for us is the Word of God. Preach with simplicity . . . Preach with urgency . . . heaven and hell are at stake. Preach for a decision.

Thousands of pastors, Sunday school teachers, and Christian workers are powerless because they do not make the Word the source of their preaching or teaching.

Nowhere in Mark 16:15—“Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” [KJV] — nor in any similar Scripture did Christ command us to go only into the Western or capitalist world. Nowhere did He say to exclude the Communist world.

I have had the privilege of preaching the Gospel on every continent in most of the countries of the world, and I have found that when I present the simple message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, with authority, quoting from the very Word of God—He takes that message and drives it supernaturally into the human heart.

When I preach—no matter where it is in the world—I can always count on five areas of human need that afflict all peoples. Emptiness, loneliness, guilt, fear of death, deep-seated insecurity.

God’s strength is made perfect in weakness. The weaker I became, the more powerful became the preaching.

Preachers are not salesmen, for they have nothing to sell. They are bearers of Good News.

I’m not a great preacher, and I don’t claim to be a great preacher . . . I’m an ordinary preacher, just communicating the Gospel in the best way I know how.