Quotes by Evangelists - Page 22

It was God’s love which knew that men were incapable of obeying His law, and it was His love which promised a Redeemer, a Savior, who would save His people from their sins.
Billy Graham
No one can grasp the love of the God of the universe without knowing His Son.
Billy Graham
Speak about the love of God and faces light up, but speak of God as a Judge, and our attitudes change.
Billy Graham
There is one thing God’s love cannot do. It cannot forgive the unrepentant sinner.
Billy Graham
Our popular music talks constantly about love, and yet divorce rates skyrocket.
Billy Graham
God is love” means that He tries constantlyto block your route to destruction.
Billy Graham
What relationships need strengthening in your life? Don’t wait for them to grow cold or bitter, but ask God to help you strengthen them by putting God’s love into action—begin today.
Billy Graham
[Christians] are commanded to love our neighbors, and the first step in doing this is to show a watching world that Christ reigns within us.
Billy Graham
Agape love is selfless love . . . the love God wants us to have isn’t just an emotion but a conscious act of the will—a deliberate decision on our part to put others ahead of ourselves. This is the kind of love God has for us.
Billy Graham
Until the Good News of Jesus Christ burst onto the human scene,the word love was understood mostly in terms of seeking one’s own advantage. Loving the unlovely was incomprehensible A loving God reaching down to sinful humans was unthinkable.
Billy Graham
Scripture makes it clear that our first love is always to be for our Lord.
Billy Graham
When you truly love someone, you want to please and honor them by the way you act. How you treat someone shows whether or not you really care about them.
Billy Graham
If we truly love Christ, we will want to please and honor Him by the way we live. Even the thought of hurting Him or bringing disgrace to His name will be abhorrent to us.
Billy Graham
True love is an act of the will—a conscious decision to do what is best for the other person instead of ourselves.
Billy Graham
An unbelieving world may say otherwise, but so-called “sexual liberation” is actually sexual slavery—slavery to our own lusts.
Billy Graham
Pornography is anything that depicts lewdness in such a way as to create impure thoughts and lusts. However, the sewers continue to flow, destroying the moral fabric of our society.
Billy Graham
It has always been a mark of decaying civilizations to become obsessed with sex. When people lose their way, their purpose, their will, and their goals, as well as their faith . . . they go “a whoring.” It is a form of diversion that requires no thought, no character, and no restraint.
Billy Graham
Why shouldn’t we have laws forbidding pornography and obscenity? Many heroic leaders have tried, but they have stumbled over even the definition of the word “obscenity.” If we cannot agree on the length of a foot, it is because we have lost our yardstick.
Billy Graham
My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death.
Billy Graham
What a blessing it is for parents to believe in their children.
Billy Graham
Parents, pray that God may crown your home with grace and mercy.
Billy Graham
Jesus worked all His life. But the greatest work that Jesus did was not in the carpenter’s shop . . .His greatest work was achieved in those three dark hours on Calvary . . . dying for us.
Billy Graham
Calloused hands were the badge of the pioneer, while furrowed brows are the insignia of modern man.
Billy Graham
[Every] believer will receive a reward for his works. The New Testament teaches these rewards are called “crowns.” We will surely be surprised to note who receives the crowns and who doesn’t. The lowliest servant may sparkle with more jewels than the philanthropist who endowed the church and whose name is engraved on the plaque in the narthex.
Billy Graham
One of the Christian’s responsibilities in following Christ is to have a new attitude toward work. So many young people want Christ without responsibility . . . whatever work a Christian does . . . he should do his best.
Billy Graham
Think of working forever at something you love to do, for [the] one you love with all your heart, and never getting tired! We will never know weariness in heaven.
Billy Graham
God did not intend for us to be idle and unproductive. There is dignity in work.
Billy Graham
Both my parents had a great influence on me. I never heard my father use a profane or even a slang word. I always respected him because of his complete integrity. In his business dealings his handshake was like a contract. He was as good as his word. Of all the people I have ever known, my mother had the greatest influence on me.
Billy Graham
Society has become so obsessed with sex that it seeps from all the pores of our national life.
Billy Graham
In the face of legalized pornography, the conscience of America seems to be paralyzed. More serious than our fakery in art, literature, and pictures is the collapse of our moral standards and the blunting of our capacity as a nation for righteous indignation.
Billy Graham
The word lust [can] mean “selfish desire.” . . .It is wanting something so badly you will do anything to get it. That is one of the tricks of the devil. It is too high a price to pay.
Billy Graham
It is a source of encouragement that many homosexuals report being transformed through the power of the Gospel.
Billy Graham
No matter how we may rationalize the practice [of homosexuality] . . . Romans 1 makes it clearly the product of a reprobate mind . . .I am not exonerating all heterosexual activity . . . When we come to Christ, we are called upon to repent of our sins and no longer to practice the ungodly patterns of living.
Billy Graham
God has not changed. His laws have not changed. He is still a God of love and mercy But He is also a God of righteousness and judgment.
Billy Graham
God is sending forth His message of love, but you must tune in. You must be willing to listen and to receive His message and then to obey it.
Billy Graham
Don’t make the mistake of thinking that because God is love everything is going to be sweet, beautiful, and happy and that no one will be punished for his sins . . . God’s love provided the cross of Jesus, by which we can have forgiveness and cleansing.
Billy Graham
A God of love must be a God of justice. It is because God loves that He is just. His justice balances His love and makes His acts of bothlove and justice meaningful.
Billy Graham
God could not consistently love men if He did not provide for the judgment of evildoers.
Billy Graham
Memorizing the Bible is most important. “Thinking God’s thoughts” will take the place of worried, anxious concerns.
Billy Graham
Only the Holy Spirit can give us peace in the midst of the storms of restlessness and despair. We should not grieve our Guide by indulging in worry or paying undue attention to self.
Billy Graham
Pray for wisdom to deal with whatever is worrying you. Pray that God will act to change the circumstances according to His will. He doesn’t always do what we want Him to—but He knows what’s best for us, and He can be trusted.
Billy Graham
Some people spend so much time worrying about what might happen that they never enjoy what is happening [now] . . . Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Billy Graham
Ask God to help you see the world the way He sees it.
Billy Graham
One of the great joys of my life has been to travel around the world and meet thousands of Christians in every country.
Billy Graham
We must warn the nations of the world that they must repent and turn to God while there is yet time. We must also proclaim that there is forgiveness and peace in knowing Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord.
Billy Graham
I have stood in the places where history was made. I have seen with my own eyes the part that men and women of faith have played in these earthshaking events, and I have heard with my own ears their cries for freedom.
Billy Graham
All over the world God is opening doors of opportunity, making it possible for us to take the Gospel to millions who have never heard of Christ.
Billy Graham
The greatest tribute a boy can give to his father is to say, “When I grow up, I want to be just like my dad.” It is a convicting responsibility for us fathers and grandfathers.
Billy Graham
In searching for ways to bridge the generation gap, there is no doubt that we, as parents, will have to practice what we preach, by striving more to bring our conduct into line with our code of beliefs.
Billy Graham
If ever we needed to put the Golden Rule into action, it’s with our aging parents.
Billy Graham
Although the testimony of my mother’s life helped mold me and taught me how to live, the testimony of her last years and her death gave me insight into how to die.
Billy Graham
What a comfort it was for me to know that no matter where I was in the world, my mother was praying for me.
Billy Graham
If God gives you responsibility for aging parents, seek what is best for them, not what is most convenient for you. And keep contact with them!
Billy Graham
Parents have bought into the world’s pastimes chock-full of pop culture, and it is searing the souls of our children. Parents have allowed electronic babysitters to infiltrate their homes and minds; young people’s sense of right and wrong is being choked by wild and rank weeds in a moral wasteland.
Billy Graham
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
Billy Graham
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.
Billy Graham
Many parents preach to their children but do not set good examples. Parents want the children to do as they say, not as they do.
Billy Graham
Parenting is the most important responsibility most of us will ever face, and none of us does it perfectly.
Billy Graham
When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.
Billy Graham
Worries flee before a spirit of gratitude.
Billy Graham