Billy Graham Quotes - Page 10

The words of this Book have a way of filling in the missing pieces, of bridging the gaps, of turning the tarnished colors of our life to jewel-like brilliance. Learn to take your every problem to the Bible. Within its pages you will find the correct answer.
Billy Graham
Before you “re-think” your faith, it may be wise to examine the critics of the Bible. In the end your faith will be even stronger.
Billy Graham
Make use of this tool of communication by which God speaks to us—namely, the Bible! Read it, study it, memorize it. It will change your entire life. It is not like any other book. It is a “living” book that works its way into your heart, mind, and soul.
Billy Graham
I find something new in the Bible every time I read it . . . that can be the experience of everyone who comes to it wanting to discover more of God’s truth.
Billy Graham
The Pilgrims . . . put their ideals ahead of all material considerations. It is not surprising that the Pilgrims had little and succeeded, while we have much and are in danger of failing. No civilization can make progress unless some great principle is generously mixed into the mortar of its foundations in life.
Billy Graham
The Pilgrims had vision and hope because they lived in the dimension of eternity. Their strength of spirit was forged by a personal faith in God, by tough discipline, and by regular habits of devotion.
Billy Graham
Our nation grew strong in an era when moral standards were emphasized, and it will grow weak when we condone that which we once condemned.
Billy Graham
The nation’s image has become more like a chameleon—accepting whatever trend marketers concoct. Gone are the days of reverencing a holy God in the church or within ourselves. Yet the Bible tells us, “Happy is the man who is always reverent” (Proverbs 28:14 NKJV).
Billy Graham
What I find disturbing in America is the consuming desire for leisure, convenience, and fun. It seems we, as a nation, have traded God for gadgets. We have traded eternal truth for momentary self-gratification—worshipping false gods of materialism and humanism instead of the Creator of all things.
Billy Graham
As long as we are on this earth, we possess dual citizenship. On one hand we owe allegiance to our nation and are called to be good citizens. But we are also citizens of the kingdom of God. Our supreme loyalty is to Him.
Billy Graham
All the nations that make up the world are burdened down with riches or poverty, obesity or malnutrition, success or failure.
Billy Graham
At the bitter end of an era of liberation—women’s lib, kids’ lib, animal lib, and everything-but-ethics lib—America has apparently been liberated from its moral foundations. But for too many, the good life has become a living hell.
Billy Graham
The great flaw in the American economic system has finally been revealed: an unrealistic faith in the power of prosperity rather than in the ultimate power and benevolence of God.
Billy Graham
No matter how hard we try, words simply cannot express the horror, the shock, and the revulsion we all feel over what took place in this nation on 9/11. My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him.
Billy Graham
The blood of Christ “purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation” (Revelation 5:9 NIV).
Billy Graham
People reading the Bible for the first time are often surprised to discover how much human drama it contains. Almost every conceivable human dilemma and conflict is reflected in its pages.
Billy Graham
The Bible is the only Book in the world that predicts the future. The Bible is more modern than tomorrow morning’s newspaper.
Billy Graham
The Bible is God’s book of promises, and, unlike the books of men, it does not change or get out of date.
Billy Graham
The main “food” God has given to strengthen us is the Bible, the Word of God.
Billy Graham
Each of us has our reference point and as a Christian the reference point by which I measure my life and thought is the Bible.
Billy Graham
I don’t think people can live without hope. What oxygen is to the lungs, hope is to our survival in this world. And the Bible is filled with hope.
Billy Graham
The Bible is the constant fountain for faith, conduct, and inspiration from which we drink daily.
Billy Graham
God gave the Bible to us because He wants us to know Him and love Him and serve Him. Most of all, He gave it to us so we can become more like Christ.
Billy Graham
Some of the strongest warnings about judgment in the Bible come from the lips of Jesus.
Billy Graham
Man is precisely what the Bible says he is. Human nature is behaving exactly as the Bible said it would. The course of human events is flowing just as Christ predicted.
Billy Graham
The Bible teaches that man’s chief problem is spiritual.
Billy Graham
In the textbook of revelation, the Bible, God has spoken verbally; and this spoken word has survived every scratch of the human pen.
Billy Graham
The Bible . . . is the only Book that offers man a redemption and points the way out of his dilemmas. It is our one sure guide in an unsure world.
Billy Graham
We have become a nation of biblical illiterates.
Billy Graham
When we approach the Bible as history and biography, we approach the Bible in the wrong spirit. We must read the Bible, not primarily as historians seeking information, but as men and women seeking God.
Billy Graham
The Bible is the textbook of revelation.In God’s great classroom there are three textbooks—one called nature, one called conscience, and one named Scripture. In the written textbook of revelation—the Bible—God speaks through words.
Billy Graham
Without the Bible, this world would indeed be a dark and frightening place, without signpost or beacon.
Billy Graham
Those who read the Scriptures as magnificent literature, breath-taking poetry, or history and overlook the story of salvation miss the Bible’s real meaning and message.
Billy Graham
As we cast our frightened eyes around for something that is real and true and enduring, we are turning once more to this ancient Book [the Bible] that has given consolation, comfort, and salvation to millions in the centuries past.
Billy Graham
God never leads us to do anything that is contrary to the Bible.
Billy Graham
The Bible stands as the supreme Constitution for all mankind, its laws applying equally to all who live under its domain, without exception or special interpretation.
Billy Graham
The Bible can stand the onslaught of any enemy.
Billy Graham
I have yet to discover a source of information, practical advice, and hope that compares to the wisdom found in the Bible.
Billy Graham
There is nothing which indicates the inspiration of the Scriptures more than the factual and faithful record of men and their failures . . .These records are for our warning and instruction. They show us how sinful man needs God.
Billy Graham
Just as the Bible is God’s written Word, so Jesus is God’s living Word.
Billy Graham
One can approach the Bible with a cold, rationalistic attitude, or one can do so with reverence and the desire to hear God speak.
Billy Graham
I do not understand why reading the Bible in public should make others feel uncomfortable . . . it may be such an example that serves to remind them of the Book they have neglected.
Billy Graham
The [Bible’s] message is concerned with earth dwellers, their origin, the reason for their existence, the cause of their misery, and the plan of redemption for a fallen race.
Billy Graham
We are not free to pick and choose the parts of the Bible we want to believe or obey. God has given us all of it, and we should be obedient to all of it.
Billy Graham
Psalms teaches us how to relate to God, and Proverbs teaches us how to relate to others.
Billy Graham
The Bible is our authority in everything it touches. This means the Bible is our guide to show us how to live . . . it is our instructor.
Billy Graham
The Bible has stood the test of time because it is divinely inspired by Almighty God, written in ink that cannot be erased by any man, religion,or belief system.
Billy Graham
The Word does not change. The Dead Sea scrolls, archeology, modern science—they do not change the Bible; they confirm it.
Billy Graham
Man has not changed. Man still rejects the testimony of the Scripture.
Billy Graham
Don’t take your Bible for granted! For centuries ordinary believers had no access to the Bible; Bibles had to be painstakingly copied by hand and were very expensive. The only access most people had to the Bible was by hearing it read in church. The invention of the printing press changed all that, however, and today the Bible is readily available in multiple translations and hundreds of languages around the world.
Billy Graham
Every generation has found [the Bible’s] message indispensable, and its influence on individuals and society over the centuries has been enormous.
Billy Graham
God’s laws for the spiritual world are found in the Bible. Whatever else there may be that tells us of God, it is more clearly told in the Bible.
Billy Graham
The Bible will always be the center of controversy.
Billy Graham
The only place we can find a clear, i unmistakable message is in the Word of God [the Bible].
Billy Graham
We should begin the day with the Bible, and as it comes to a close let the Word speak its wisdom to our souls. Let it be the Staff of Life upon which our spirit is nourished. Let it be the Sword of the Spirit which cuts away the evil of our lives and fashions us in His image and likeness.
Billy Graham
The central theme of the Bible is salvation, and the central personality of the Bible is Christ.
Billy Graham
The Bible is to be our basis of authority. We must “by faith” accept [Jesus] as the Son of the living God. This sounds narrow and intolerant, and in a sense it is!
Billy Graham
People from all walks of life are searching for answers to life’s problems. I believe the Bible has the answer to man’s deepest needs.
Billy Graham
God called me many years ago to be an evangelist, and I have never regretted His leading. I love the crusades, meeting people from every country and culture all over the world. My life has been blessed by friends from every land, and challenges from every corner.
Billy Graham
Itinerant evangelists are the most important ambassadors and messengers on earth. They are a mighty army, spreading out across the world with a vision to reach their own people for Christ.
Billy Graham