Quotes by Evangelists - Page 32

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
Billy Graham
The focus on self has led our society into a fascination with pleasure, emotional and sexual stimulation, and “personal fulfillment.” America’s compulsion for “maximum personhood” is evidenced everywhere.
Billy Graham
Are you disappointed with society? If you are,I challenge you to take the first step. I challenge you to look at yourself.
Billy Graham
Today we see social evil, terrorism, and gross immorality throughout the world. Someone has said, “A wrong deed is right if the majority of people declare it not to be wrong.”By this principle we can see our standards shiftingfrom year to year according to the popular vote!This new permissiveness is condoned by intelligent men and women,many of whom are found in the churches.
Billy Graham
Jesus indicated that there will be a permissive society just before He comes back . . . the world today is on an immoral binge such as has not been known since the days of Rome. We are in a hedonistic society, and what we are seeing is human nature expressing itself without God.
Billy Graham
Sickness is deep within the soul of our society—and that has always been God’s exclusive territory.
Billy Graham
The world does need changing, society needs changing, the nation needs changing, but we never will change it until we ourselves are changed.
Billy Graham
The same conditions that prevailed in Rome prevail in our society. Before Rome fell, her standards were abandoned, the family disintegrated, divorce prevailed, immorality was rampant, and faith was at a low ebb.
Billy Graham
Sometimes I think the truly committed Christian is in conflict with society around him more than any other person. Society is going one direction, and the Christian is going in the opposite direction. This brings about friction and conflict. But God has promised, in the midst of trouble and conflict, a genuine peace, a sense of assurance and security, that the worldly person never knows.
Billy Graham
In a decadent society the will to believe, to resist, to contend, to fight, to struggle is gone. In place of this will to resist, there is the desire to conform, to drift, to follow, to yield, and not give up.
Billy Graham
If I could relive my life, I would devote my entire ministry to reaching children for God.
Dwight L. Moody
Many children today are growing up without discipline. As they become adults and the discipline of job or family demands are placed upon them, they do not know how to cope . . .children need discipline to be useful members of society. Likewise, God’s children need discipline to be useful members of His family.
Billy Graham
Children must be taught obedience just as much as they need to be taught to read and write.
Billy Graham
Parents need much wisdom in relating to their grown children—and much prayer. Children likewise have much to learn about relating to their parents as the years pass.
Billy Graham
Children, pray for the salvation of your parents.
Billy Graham
It may shock some parents to learn that we don’t own our children. God has given them to us in trust . . . however, God may transfer our children to His home at any time.
Billy Graham
I missed the joy of seeing our children grow and change. I thank God for watching over them during those years.
Billy Graham
Our lives speak loudly to those around us, especially the children in our home.
Billy Graham
One of life’s mysteries is why two children growing up in the same home sometimes take radically different paths—one following Christ, the other rebellious and scornful. Yet it happens.
Billy Graham
God gave us our children so we could prepare them to become adults.
Billy Graham
Ruth once wrote, “Dear Journal, Never let a single day pass without saying an encouraging word to each child . . .‘More people fail for lack of encouragement,’ someone wrote, ‘than for any other reason.
Billy Graham
Children will learn far more by watching than by just listening.
Billy Graham
One of the worst things we can do is allow our children to grow up thinking they don’t need to keep any rules. A spoiled child becomes a spoiled adult.
Billy Graham
Love your children—and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.
Billy Graham
If a child is to survive, he or she must know the rules of safety. If he is to be healthy, he must know the rules of health. If he is to drive a car, he must know the rules of the road. If he is to become a ball player, he must learn the rules of the game. And, contrary to popular thinking, children appreciate rules.
Billy Graham
There is always the exceptional child, but the average tells us that the child is largely what the home has made him.
Billy Graham
Children respect discipline. They want to be guided. It gives them a sense of belonging, a sense of security.
Billy Graham
If our children grow up with no understanding of right and wrong . . .no desire to live with integrity . . . no faith in God . . .their souls will be impoverished and they will miss life’s highest good.
Billy Graham
Children do need the guidance of their parents, and we guide them more by the example we set than by any other way. We need to be firm and sane and fair and consistent—and, above all, we need to discipline in a spirit of love.
Billy Graham
The Bible warns [parents] against extremes in dealing with our adult children. It tells us to avoid trying to control [them] once they become adults. When children become independent, a major transition takes place: They are no longer under our authority.
Billy Graham
By the 1960s the United States had a new ruling class—the teenager!
Billy Graham
To injure, ignore, disrespect, and violate the innocence of a child are among the greatest evils known to man.
Billy Graham
Truth is easier for a child to handle than evasiveness.
Billy Graham
Before the seventeenth century, a child passed directly into the adult world between the ages of five and seven . . . then came the industrial revolution . . .so the child-centered home was born.
Billy Graham
The television, iPod, and Internet have trespassed upon the innocence of America’s children, while preoccupied mothers and dispassionate fathers stare aghast wondering what went wrong. They don’t stop to think of their own contributions to the persuasions influencing their children. After all, where do kids as young as elementary age get money to rent rock videos and the latest rap DVDs?
Billy Graham
Someday your children will leave; you can’t hold on to them or control them forever, nor should you.
Billy Graham
1 John 1:4 "These things [are written] that your joy may be full." I can always measure the amount of time I'm spending in the Scriptures by how much joy (not superficial happiness, but deep down abiding joy) I have. When I find a lack of joy in my life, the first thing I check is how much time I'm spending in God's Word!
Evelyn Christenson
No matter what you do, 10% of the population will not like you.
Joyce Meyer
[As a young man] I sought thrills! I found them in Christ. I looked for something that would bring perfect joy! I found it in Christ. I looked for something that would bring pleasure and that would satisfy the deepest longing of my heart! I found it in Christ. And my life has never been the same.
Billy Graham
I have found in my travels that those who keep heaven in view remain serene and cheerful in the darkest day. Forward-looking Christians remain optimistic and joyful, knowing that Christ someday will rule.
Billy Graham
This “I” was made in the image of God for fellowship with God. Without God it is miserable, empty, confused, and frustrated. Without God life has no meaning; but with God at its center there is life, an inner strength and peace, a deep satisfaction, an unfading joy known only to those who know Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
No matter what the climate is, what the troubles are, what the difficulties are, there is joy for the child of God, because joy is produced supernaturally by the Holy Spirit in us.
Billy Graham
Without Him our daily routine would become tiresome and tedious, a drudgery rather than a joy.
Billy Graham
Only the forward-looking Christian remains sincerely optimistic and joyful, knowing that Christ will win in the end.
Billy Graham
Without dark clouds in our lives we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.
Billy Graham
The ability to rejoice in any situation is a sign of spiritual maturity.
Billy Graham
Pleasures are the things that appeal to our flesh and to our lust. But joy is something else. Joy runs deep.
Billy Graham
We have to be tuned to God. We will never be free from discouragement and despondency until we know and walk with the very fountainhead of joy.
Billy Graham
I was very timid, and bound as with chains in a man-fearing spirit. When I arose to testify I trembled like a leaf, and began to make excuses - O God, send someone else! Then the Lord in a vision caused me to see the bottomless pit open in all its horror and woe. There was weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. It was surrounded by a great multitude of people who seemed unconscious of their danger, and without a moments warning they would tumble into this awful place. I was above the people on a narrow plank-walk, which wound up toward heaven; and I was exhorting and pleading with the people to come upon the plank and escape that awful place. Several started.There was a beautiful bright light above me, and I was encouraging them to follow that light and they would go straight to heaven."In all these trials God was preparing me and opening the way for the great battle against the enemy of souls and now the great desire of my heart was to work for Jesus. I longed to win a star for the Savior's crown.
Maria Woodworth-Etter
We need a backbone, not a wishbone.
Joyce Meyer
Repent means to renounce sin . . .and by God’s grace to fill my mind with things that honor Him.
Billy Graham
What does repentance mean? It means to change—to change your mind, change the way that you’re living—and to determine that with God’s help you will live for Christ.
Billy Graham
No subject is closer to my heart than the family . . . The moral foundation of our country is in danger of crumbling as families break up and parents neglect their responsibilities.
Billy Graham
A Christian has tremendous responsibilities to his own family. He or she has a responsibility of loving each member of the family.
Billy Graham
If people stumble, we help them get back on their feet; if they veer off course, we urge them back. On this journey we are all brothers and sisters in the same family—the family of God.
Billy Graham
It is only the strong Christian family unit that can survive the coming world holocaust.
Billy Graham
Rebellion, waywardness, lack of discipline, confusion, and conflict prevent happy relationships within the home. But God is interested in your family, your marriage, your children. He shows us the ideals and the goals for the family.
Billy Graham
God knew that children grow and mature best in a stable, loving family, and this was one reason He gave marriage to us.
Billy Graham
We have exchanged love of family and home for cyberfriends and living in constant motion that robs the soul from memories—and perhaps from that still, small voice that longs to be heard.
Billy Graham
Not only does God give us a new relationship with Himself and make us citizens of His kingdom, but He also gives us a new family—the family of God.
Billy Graham