Quotes by Evangelists - Page 30

Forgiveness is one of the most beautiful words in the human vocabulary. How much pain and unhappy consequences could be avoided if we all learned the meaning of this word!
Billy Graham
When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.
Billy Graham
Before asking God’s forgiveness there is something important you must do. You must repent, that is, turn from the behavior and lifestyle that [leads to sin].
Billy Graham
When God forgives, there is an immediate andcomplete change in relationship. Instead of hostility, there is love and acceptance. Instead of enmity, there is friendship.
Billy Graham
Repent when you fail, and immediately seek God’s forgiveness and restoration. Sin breaks our fellowship with God.
Billy Graham
Guilt is not all bad. Without it there is nothing to drive a person toward self-examination and toward God for forgiveness.
Billy Graham
In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.
Billy Graham
Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.
Billy Graham
Are you living up to your potential? God made you with potential - potential for greatness! If you do what you can do, and trust Him to do what you can't, you will grow into the person He gave you the potential to be!
Joyce Meyer
We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are.
Joyce Meyer
He who cares for the sparrows and numbers the hairs of our head, cannot possibly fail us.
Hannah Whitall Smith
Again, "Pray without ceasing" (1 Thess. 5:17), and here the word to pray does not mean to beg or to plead as if God were unwilling to give--but simply to expose by faith every situation as it arises, to the all-sufficiency of the One who indwells you by His life.
W. Ian Thomas
We fail to prevail with unconverted men because of our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.
John R. Mott
By the time we were knit in our mothers' wombs, our lives were like open books before Him--every sentence read, every paragraph indented, every chapter titled, every page numbered. He knew it all in advance--all the sin, all the selfishness, every weakness. Yet He chose to love us--lavishly.
Beth Moore
The greater the difficulty to be overcome, the more will it be seen to the glory of God how much can be done by prayer and faith.
George Müller
Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears. Topics: Prayer, MeditationI am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood. Topics: Salvation, AtonementWhen the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end. Topics: Satan, PrayerGod's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything. Topics: ScriptureDo not study commentaries, lesson helps or other books about the Bible: study the Bible itself. Do not study about the Bible, study the Bible. The Bible is the Word of God, and only the Bible is the Word of God. Topics: The BibleAll that God is, and all that God has, is at the disposal of prayer. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do everything, prayer is omnipotent.
R.A. Torrey
The opportunity of a lifetime needs to be seized during the lifetime of the opportunity.
Leonard Ravenhill
Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one ever bothered to ask!
Billy Graham
Many times I have been driven to prayer. When I was in Bible school I didn’t know what to do with my life. I used to walk the streets . . . and pray, sometimes for hours at a time. In His timing, God answered those prayers, and since then prayer has been an essential part of my life.
Billy Graham
I have never met anyone who spent time in daily prayer, and in the study of the Word of God, and was strong in faith, who was ever discouraged for very long.
Billy Graham
If there are any tears shed in heaven, they will be over the fact that we prayed so little.
Billy Graham
In the morning, prayer is the key that opens to usthe treasures of God’s mercies and blessings; in the evening, it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard.
Billy Graham
The one who expects God to do as he asks Him must on his part do whatever God bids him.
R.A. Torrey
When we know Him, we can be sure God hears our prayers.
Billy Graham
When troubles come may prayer be your automatic response.
Billy Graham
We were created to live a life of prayer.
Billy Graham
We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer.
Billy Graham
Someone has said, “Prayer is the highest use to which speech can be put.
Billy Graham
Prayer is key to our effort to communicate the Gospel and win men and women to Christ.
Billy Graham
No matter where we are, God is as close as a prayer. He is our support and our strength. He will help us make our way up again from whatever depths we have fallen.
Billy Graham
The most eloquent prayer is often prayed through hands that heal and bless.
Billy Graham
Prayer is crucial in evangelism: Only God can change the heart of someone who is in rebellion against Him. No matter how logical our arguments or how fervent our appeals, our words will accomplish nothing unless God’s Spirit prepares the way.
Billy Graham
Persecution, whether it is physical, social, or mental, is one of the worst types of pain, but those who persecute us are to be the objects of our prayers.
Billy Graham
Prayer is powerful, but if our prayers are aimless, meaningless, and mingled with doubt, they will be of little hope to us.
Billy Graham
Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life.
Billy Graham
[Jesus] prayed briefly when He was in a crowd; He prayed a little longer when He was with His disciples; and He prayed all night when He was alone. Today, many in the ministry tend to reverse that process.
Billy Graham
We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God’s side.
Billy Graham
If we are to depend on prayer during tough times, we should be people of prayer before the crisis hits.
Billy Graham
Have you ever said, “Well, all we can do now is pray”? . . . When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God.
Billy Graham
I realize more than ever that this ministry has been a team effort. Without the help of our prayer partners, our financial supporters, our staff, and our board of directors—this ministry and all of our dreams to spread the Good News of God’s love throughout the world would not have been possible.
Billy Graham
Those you know the least may need your prayers the most. Don’t let the fact that you don’t know someone keep you from praying for them.
Billy Graham
No matter how dark and hopeless a situation might seem, never stop praying.
Billy Graham
[Jesus] had only three years of public ministry, but He was never too hurried to spend hours in prayer . . . No day began or closed in which He was not in communion with His Father.
Billy Graham
We must repent of our prayerlessness. We must make prayer our priority. Even our churches today have gotten away from prayer meetings.
Billy Graham
You cannot pray for someone and hate them at the same time.
Billy Graham
Prayer is for every moment of our lives, not just for times of suffering or joy. Prayer is really a place, a place where you meet God in genuine conversation.
Billy Graham
Sometimes I’m asked to list the most important steps in preparing for an evangelistic mission, and my reply is always the same: prayer . . . prayer . . . prayer.
Billy Graham
Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.
Billy Graham
True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency. Make it a habit, and when the need arises you will be in practice.
Billy Graham
Pray frequently as you read [the Bible] and you will discover a fellowship with God.
Billy Graham
I believe we should pray that God will take possession of our lives totally and completely. We should pray that we will be emptied of self— self-love, self-will, self-ambition—and be placed completely at His disposal.
Billy Graham
God Himself is the power that makes prayer work.
Billy Graham
The men upon whose shoulders rested the initial responsibility of Christianizing the world came to Jesus with one supreme request. They did not say, “Lord, teach us to preach”; “Lord, teach us to do miracles”; or “Lord, teach us to be wise” . . . but they said, “Lord, teach us to pray.
Billy Graham
To the Son of God prayer was more important than the assembling of great throngs . . . He often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed [Luke 5:15–16].
Billy Graham
The reason many . . . close their eyes while praying is to shut out the affairs of the world so that their minds can be completely concentrated on God . . . it certainly lends itself to the attitude of prayer.
Billy Graham
Obedience is the master key to effectual prayer.
Billy Graham
If we are to have our prayers answered, we must give God the glory.
Billy Graham
Prayer and Bible study are inseparably linked. Effective prayer is born out of the prompting of God’s Spirit as we read His Word.
Billy Graham
Too often we use petty little petitions, oratorical exercises, or the words of others rather than the cries of our inmost being. When you pray, pray!
Billy Graham
A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.
Billy Graham