Quotes by Evangelists - Page 27

Many Christian leaders are willing to give up some of the teachings of the Bible in order to harmonize Christianity with the other religions.
Billy Graham
Jesus tells us not to be misled by the voices of strangers. There are so many strange voices being heard in the religious world of our day. We must compare what they say with the Word of God.
Billy Graham
Satan has slaughtered, plundered, and bludgeoned his way through the centuries, manifesting himself in every false ideology, sect, and cult.
Billy Graham
We want to be relevant . . . However, the more relevant we become to a sin-dominated world, the more irrelevant we actually are to God.
Billy Graham
There is a strong movement, especially in Protestantism, to recast the Christian message in order to make it acceptable to modern man.
Billy Graham
All false religions cut away parts of God’s revelation, add ideas of their own, and come out with various viewpoints that differ from God’s revelation in the Bible.
Billy Graham
We read every day about the rich, the famous, the talented who are disillusioned. Many of them are turning to the occult, or Transcendental Meditation, or Eastern religions. Some are turning to crime. The questions they thought were answered are left dangling: What is man? Where did he come from? What is his purpose on this planet? Where is he going? Is there a God who cares? If there is a God, has He revealed Himself to man?
Billy Graham
A false religion is like the imitation of high fashion. The very presence of counterfeits proves the existence of the real. There would be no imitations without a genuine product. God’s original design has always had imitators and counterfeits!
Billy Graham
In this age of humanism, man is seduced by society with the lie that he can become his own god . . . the New Age movement is polluted with self and it will never bow before God—at least not until Christ returns.
Billy Graham
Modern Western culture has become a mixture of paganism and Christianity. We are a blend of both. We talk of God, but we often act as though we are atheists.
Billy Graham
New Agers are terrified of their own mortality, and they want to believe that somehow the soul will survive. Of course it will, but not as they imagine.
Billy Graham
There are many religions in the world, and they have developed because various people have had various ideas about God. Christianity makes a unique claim . . . we can know God because He came to us in human form in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
Man has naturally and universally a capacity for religion—and not only a capacity, for the vast majority of the human race practices or professes some form of religion.
Billy Graham
I am convinced that hundreds of religious leaders throughout the world today are servants not of God, but of the Antichrist. They are wolves in sheep’s clothing; they are tares instead of wheat.
Billy Graham
Every journey has a starting point . . . and it has an end. God meant for [life] to be filled with joy and purpose. He invites us to . . . take the rest of our journey with Him.
Billy Graham
There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us.
Billy Graham
Nothing could be more wrong than the old cliché that says any religion will do just as long as one is sincere. In no other area of life is there so much error, deception, and charlatanism as in religion.
Billy Graham
The one who made the Ford knew how to make it run. God made you and me, and He alone knows how to run your life and mine. We could make a complete wreck of our lives without Christ.
Billy Graham
The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.
Billy Graham
The Bible has much to say about the brevity of life and the necessity of preparing for eternity. I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.
Billy Graham
Our interests are centered in ourselves. We are preoccupied with material things. Our supreme god is technology; our goddess is sex. Most of us are more interested in getting to the moon than in getting to heaven, more concerned about conquering space than about conquering ourselves. We are more dedicated to material security than to inner purity. We give much more thought to what we wear, what we eat, what we drink, and what we can do to relax than we give to what we are. This preoccupation with peripheral things applies to every area of our lives.
Billy Graham
If anything has been accomplished through my life, it has been solely God’s doing, not mine, and He—not I—must get the credit.
Billy Graham
We must learn to live triumphantly amid the traumas and pressures we face daily.
Billy Graham
How often do you cave in to the pressures of the crowd, seeking the approval of others instead of the approval of God? We all like to be liked—but that can be a very dangerous thing. Make it your goal to live for Christ and be faithful to Him, regardless of what the crowd demands.
Billy Graham
As life hits us head-on we can respond with resentment, resignation, acceptance, or welcome. We are the living examples of our responses.
Billy Graham
Because God is the giver and source of our life, He has a legitimate claim upon our lives.
Billy Graham
We are to be catch basins for the fullness of God. Like a freshly running spring, we are to overflow and let our lives touch the lives of those around us.
Billy Graham
Life is a glorious opportunity if it is used to condition us for eternity.
Billy Graham
The Bible teaches that life does not end at the cemetery. There is a future life.
Billy Graham
Don’t be a prude, or snobbish, but let your life “glow” for Christ. We are lamps shining in the darkness.
Billy Graham
God’s Word is not a book of human ideas . . . it is given to us by [God] to teach us how to live.
Billy Graham
Life is sacred and given to us by God; for that reason we must never condone the deliberate, unnatural taking of life.
Billy Graham
Sometimes life touches one person with a bouquet and another with a thorn bush, But the first may find a wasp in the flowers, and the second may discover roses among the thorns.
Billy Graham
Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.
Billy Graham
Idolatrous beliefs have eroded the foundations of truth. Whether ancient or modern, all have posed alternatives to the biblical way of approaching God.
Billy Graham
Men and women may devise plans to satisfy their inner longings, but in the midst of all the “religions” of the world, God’s way is available in the Bible for all who will come to Him on His terms.
Billy Graham
Today . . . when Satan worship is increasing at an alarming rate, we had better be aware of him, his origin, his aims, his abilities, and his limitations.
Billy Graham
Many evidences and arguments suggest God’s existence, yet the plain truth is that God cannot be proved by intellectual arguments alone. If the human mind could fully prove God, He would be no greater than the mind that proves Him!
Billy Graham
Mark my word, the day is coming when it’s going to cost to live for Jesus Christ. We are, more and more, a minority, and that’s exactly what it was like in the first century.
Billy Graham
What do others see when they look at your life? What do those who know you best say about you—your spouse, your children, your friends, your coworkers? Do they see inconsistencies in any area of your life—money, relationships, speech, possessions?
Billy Graham
I’ve known the thrill of winning a tough ball game and of winning a golf match on the last hole. But to me the biggest thrill is to win the big one—the spiritual battle of life.
Billy Graham
The light of God’s presence in our lives is a purifying flame that will draw us near to Him.
Billy Graham
Only by a life of obedience to the voice of the Spirit, by a daily denying of self, by full dedication to Christ, and by constant fellowship with Him are we enabled to live a godly life and an influential life in this present ungodly world.
Billy Graham
The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives.
Billy Graham
I could recall countless illustrations of men and women who have encountered Jesus Christ . . .Their whole lives have been transformed.
Billy Graham
Our life is not of this world.
Billy Graham
No matter how advanced its progress, any generation that neglects its spiritual and moral life is going to disintegrate.
Billy Graham
Instead of giving God His rightful place at the center of our lives, we have substituted the “god” of Self. Only Christ can change our hearts—and through us begin to change our world.
Billy Graham
Walk into any bookstore and you’ll find hundreds of books telling you how to live. Don’t be misled, and don’t be deceived. Instead, build your life on the truth God has given us in His Word.
Billy Graham
Though cultures differ and times change, the Word of our God stands forever as an unchanging source of answers to all of life’s problems.
Billy Graham
Don’t waste your life on things that have no eternal value.
Billy Graham
A life without God is like a boat without an anchor.
Billy Graham
One of the most important things God wants to teach us from the Old Testament is how not to live.
Billy Graham
God calls us to live lives of purity.
Billy Graham
Ask God to reveal hypocrisy in your life—an inconsistency between what you profess and what you practice. Then ask God to bring you so close to Christ that you won’t have any desire to live an inconsistent, deceitful life.
Billy Graham
Jesus demands to be Master and Lord of every part of your life. Is He Lord of your mind, of what you think, read, and believe? Of what you dream about, meditate on, and entertain yourself with? Do your eyes belong to Christ? Can [you] ask God’s blessing on it? Can [you] do this to the glory of God?
Billy Graham
I believe this is one of the tests of the Spirit-filled life. Is Christ becoming more and more evident in my life? Are people seeing more of Him, and less of me?
Billy Graham
Make it your goal to build strong foundations for your life—foundations constructed from prayer and the truths of God’s Word.
Billy Graham
Why are our inner lives so important? One reason is because our thoughts determine our actions.
Billy Graham
Jesus Christ said the gate that leads to destruction is wide and the way is broad, but the gate which leads to life is straight and the way narrow.
Billy Graham