Quotes by Evangelists - Page 19

It is strange that men will prepare for everything except death. We prepare for education. We prepare for business. We prepare for our careers. We prepare for marriage. We prepare for old age. We prepare for everything except the moment we are to die.
Billy Graham
Death reduces all men to the same rank. It strips the rich of his millions and the poor man of his rags . . .Death knows no age limits, no partiality. It is a thing that all men fear.
Billy Graham
One of the primary goals in life should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.
Billy Graham
No matter how much you exercise, no matter how many vitamins or health foods you eat, no matter how low your cholesterol, you will still die—someday. If you knew the moment and manner of your death in advance, would you order your life differently?
Billy Graham
Death for [a Christian] is no accident. With God there are no accidents, no tragedies, and no catastrophes as far as His children are concerned.
Billy Graham
When we all reach the end of our earthly journey, we will have just begun.
Billy Graham
Though the Christian has no immunity from death and no claim to perpetual life on this planet, death is to him a friend rather than a foe, the beginning rather than the end, another step on the pathway to heaven rather than a leap into a dark unknown.
Billy Graham
The word decease literally means “exodus” or “going out.” The imagery is that of the children of Israel leaving Egypt and their former life of bondage, slavery, and hardship for the Promised Land. So death to the Christian is an exodus from the limitations, the burdens, and the bondage of this life.
Billy Graham
From the moment a child is born, the death process, and the fight against it, begins.
Billy Graham
Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project.
Billy Graham
Christ did not die by accident. He died voluntarily in our place.
Billy Graham
Someday this life will end, but for the Christian death also marks a beginning—the beginning of a new life with God that will last forever.
Billy Graham
I’m not afraid to die, for I know the joys of heaven are waiting. My greatest desire is to live today in anticipation of tomorrow and be ready to be welcomed into His home for all eternity. Will you be making the journey with me?
Billy Graham
Death carries with it a certain dread. It [is] the enemy, the great, mysterious monster that makes people quake with fear.
Billy Graham
Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon your shoulder and this brief message will be given: “Come home.
Billy Graham
Death of the righteous . . . is not to be feared or shunned. It is the shadowed threshold to the palace of God.
Billy Graham
Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it! I shall be more alive than I am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God.
Billy Graham
We now have the advantage of a few years more of life, but death is still standing at the end of the road.
Billy Graham
Delighting in the Lord alters the desires.
Billy Graham
Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.
Billy Graham
Most of us know about God, but that is quite different from knowing God.
Billy Graham
The wheels of [God’s] mercy and justice move quietly and silently, but they do move.
Billy Graham
God is not bound by a body, yet He is a Person. He feels, He thinks, He loves, He forgives, He sympathizes with the problems and sorrows that we face.
Billy Graham
If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.
Billy Graham
God can be everywhere at once, heeding the prayers of all who call out in the name of Christ; performing the mighty miracles that keep the stars in their places, and the plants bursting up through the earth, and the fish swimming in the sea. There is no limit to God. There is no limit to His wisdom. There is no limit to His power. There is no limit to His love. There is no limit to His mercy.
Billy Graham
Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn’t in you. Church can become a drab thing and the Bible an irksome Book if the Holy Spirit does not illuminate your soul with His indwelling presence.
Billy Graham
At this crucial point in world history, everyone should be seeking an answer to the question, “What is God like?” Everyone should ask it, and everyone should make very sure of the answer . . . The Bible says, “. . . God has shown it to them” [Romans 1:19 NKJV].
Billy Graham
Nothing in our lives takes God by surprise.
Billy Graham
God is not a bargaining God. You cannot barter with Him. You must do business with Him on His own terms.
Billy Graham
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!
Billy Graham
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.
Billy Graham
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.
Billy Graham
Getting to know God and being able to call on Him is the most important step in storing up for the storms.
Billy Graham
God began by revelation to build a bridge between Himself and people.
Billy Graham
To live the life of God we must have the nature of God.
Billy Graham
Your yearning for God must supersede all other desires. It must be like a gnawing hunger and a burning thirst.
Billy Graham
Remember that “where God guides, He provides. Where He leads, He supplies all needs.
Billy Graham
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!
Billy Graham
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].
Billy Graham
If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God’s mercy.
Billy Graham
If we believe in what God made and what God said, we will believe in the One whom God sent.
Billy Graham
We must practice the Presence of God. Jesus said, “Lo, I am with you always” [Matthew 28:20]. Remember, Christ is always near us.
Billy Graham
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].
Billy Graham
God holds every man accountable for his rejection of Christ.
Billy Graham
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.
Billy Graham
God is able to do what we can’t do.
Billy Graham
God has revealed Himself in the Book called the Bible.
Billy Graham
Man would have remained forever lost if God in His infinite mercy had not sent His Son to earth to bridge this gulf.
Billy Graham
People do not come to hear what I have to say—they want to know what God has to say.
Billy Graham
For centuries mankind has been on an incredible journey, taking him across every generation and through every conceivable experience in his search for God.
Billy Graham
Many people say they do not fear death, but the process of dying. It’s not the destination, but the trip that they dread.
Billy Graham
The word departure literally means to pull up anchor and set sail. Everything that happens prior to death is a preparation for the final voyage. Death marks the beginning, not the end. It is our journey to God.
Billy Graham
Death for the Christian is the doorway to heaven’s glory. Because of Christ’s resurrection we can joyously say with Paul, “Where, O death, is your victory?” [1 Corinthians 15:55 NIV].
Billy Graham
Jesus Christ was the Master Realist when He urged men to prepare for death, which was certain to come. Do not worry, said the Lord Jesus, about the death of the body, but rather concern yourself with the eternal death of the soul.
Billy Graham
Death is not the end of the road—it is merely a gateway to eternal life beyond the grave.
Billy Graham
For the Christian, death can be faced realistically and with victory, because he knows “that neither death nor life . . . shall be able to separate us from the love of God” [Romans 8:38–39 NKJV].
Billy Graham
Throughout our culture we have been led to the idea that we accept death as the end of life on earth . . .Time bound as we are and goal oriented to achievements in our lifetime, we find it strange to anticipate heaven.
Billy Graham
Sooner or later, we are going to face death; should we be making preparations while we are living?
Billy Graham
When God speaks to us, He should have our full attention.
Billy Graham
God has paid the greatest debt you will ever incur, and once you understand the incredible sacrifice He has made just for you, you will feel compelled to turn to God and to accept Jesus Christ into your heart.
Billy Graham