Quotes by Billy Graham

Nothing in our lives takes God by surprise.

God is not a bargaining God. You cannot barter with Him. You must do business with Him on His own terms.

If we read the Bible as carefully and as regularly as we read the daily papers, we would be as familiar with and as well informed about God as we are about our favorite player’s batting average during baseball season!

We have a conception that God is a haphazard God with no set of rules of life and salvation. Ask the astronomer if God is a haphazard God. He will tell you that every star moves with precision in its celestial path.

If you have been trying to limit God—stop it! Don’t try to confine Him or His works to any single place or sphere. You wouldn’t try to limit the ocean.

Getting to know God and being able to call on Him is the most important step in storing up for the storms.

God began by revelation to build a bridge between Himself and people.

To live the life of God we must have the nature of God.

Your yearning for God must supersede all other desires. It must be like a gnawing hunger and a burning thirst.

Remember that “where God guides, He provides. Where He leads, He supplies all needs.

Has God designated any one person here on earth to speak with final authority about Him? No—the one Man who could do that lived two thousand years ago, and we crucified Him!

God says that we can learn a great deal about Him just by observing nature. Because He has spoken through His universe, all men are without excuse for not believing in Him. This is why the Psalmist said: “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God” [Psalm 14:1 KJV].

If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God’s mercy.

If we believe in what God made and what God said, we will believe in the One whom God sent.

We must practice the Presence of God. Jesus said, “Lo, I am with you always” [Matthew 28:20]. Remember, Christ is always near us.

There are those who say that all roads lead to God. But Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” [John 14:6 KJV].

God holds every man accountable for his rejection of Christ.

Every law that God has given has been for man’s benefit. If man breaks it, he is not only rebelling against God; he is hurting himself.

God is able to do what we can’t do.

God has revealed Himself in the Book called the Bible.