Quotes by Evangelists - Page 33

The Bible says a great deal about entire families coming to Christ. Rahab the harlot . . . the Philippian jailer . . . and Cornelius, the Roman centurion. That could be true in your family too. You may be the one who could lead your family to Christ.
Billy Graham
Amazing things can happen when the family of God bands together.
Billy Graham
One result of family failure has been the loss of dignity. No better example can be found than in the use of language. [Language has been reduced to] a four-letter word in movies, on television, in comedy routines, and in real life.
Billy Graham
When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates.
Billy Graham
More friction and tensions are caused in a family by tone of voice than for any other one reason.
Billy Graham
Many times it takes just one member of a family to initiate the action to bring a family back together again.
Billy Graham
There is something wrong when a brother or sister becomes alienated from the rest of their family, so there is something wrong when Christians refuse to have anything to do with their fellow Christians. God wants us to live this Christian life together.
Billy Graham
Your own family circle knows whether Christ lives in you and through you.
Billy Graham
We need to place God at the center of our family . . . As a family, we need to walk with God daily.
Billy Graham
If my children think I'm genuine, no one else's opinion matters to me.
Beth Moore
The God who loved us enough to die for us when we cared nothing for him is not about to shortchange us in life.
Paul E. Little
Understanding the consequence of sin and arrogance should motivate every Christian to pray for repentance and revival.
Billy Graham
The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it does teach that sin shall no longer reign over you.
Billy Graham
When the Christian or the church becomes popular with the unbelieving world, something is seriously wrong. Because Christ runs counter to evil and because we are Christ-owned, we must also stand against evil.
Billy Graham
The end will come with the return of Jesus Christ . . .That is why a Christian can be an optimist. That is why a Christian can smile in the midst of all that is happening . . .We know what the end will be: the triumph of the Lord Jesus Christ!
Billy Graham
If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go.
A.A. Allen
Before one can walk as Christ walked,and talk as He talked,he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
A.A. Allen
If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.
Joyce Meyer
The sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.
Joyce Meyer
Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.
Joyce Meyer
Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.
Joyce Meyer
I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.
Joyce Meyer
[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.
Joyce Meyer
Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor.
Beth Moore
Two conflicting forces cannot exist in one human heart. When doubt reigns, faith cannot abide. Where hatred rules, love is crowded out. Where selfishness rules, there love cannot dwell.
Billy Graham
Man himself is helpless to detach himself from the gnawing guilt of a heart weighed down with the guilt of sin. But where man has failed, God has succeeded.
Billy Graham
Don’t ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn’t want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.
Billy Graham
It is possible through sin to harden our hearts against God so long that we lose all desire for God. The Scripture says: “God also gave them up” [Romans 1:24 KJV].
Billy Graham
The heart symbolizes the center of our moral, spiritual, and intellectual life. It is the seat of our conscience and life.
Billy Graham
When Scripture talks about the heart, it’s not talking about that life-sustaining muscle. It’s talking about our entire inner being. The heart is the seat of our emotions, the seat of decisive action, and the seat of belief (as well as doubt).
Billy Graham
Christ . . . didn’t come to treat symptoms. He came to get at the very heart of man’s disease.
Billy Graham
I am convinced that when a man sincerely searches for God with all his heart, God will reveal Himself in some way.
Billy Graham
Reading the Bible has a purifying effect upon the heart and mind. As you read, the Holy Spirit will enlighten the passages for you.
Billy Graham
A true messenger lives a burdened life. If he is the Lord’s vessel, he carries in his heart a burden for souls none can share but those who know it firsthand.
Billy Graham
The heart of man, though small, is big enough for Christ to live in, if man will only make room for Him.
Billy Graham
Many young people are building their lives on the rock of materialism. I find across the country a deep economic discontent among people in every walk of life.
Billy Graham
Tell me what you think about money, and I will tell you what you think about God, for these two are closely related. A man’s heart is closer to his wallet than anything else.
Billy Graham
Money represents your time, your energy, your talents, your total personality converted into currency. We usually hold on to it tenaciously, yet it is uncertain in value and we cannot take it into the next world.
Billy Graham
The Bible warns that money cannot buy happiness! Money cannot buy true pleasure. Money cannot buy peace of heart. And money certainly cannot buy entrance into the kingdom of God.
Billy Graham
We have tried to enthrone the false gods of money, fame, and human intelligence; but however we try, the end is always the same: “It is appointed unto men once to die” [Hebrews 9:27 KJV].
Billy Graham
The Internal Revenue Service wants a record of how you spend your money, but that is nothing compared to the books God is keeping.
Billy Graham
Money takes our minds off God.
Billy Graham
Covetousness puts money above manhood. It shackles its devotee and makes him its victim. It hardens the heart and deadens the noble impulses and destroys the vital qualities of life.
Billy Graham
Today we are putting our hopes in materialism, in technological progress, and in freedom from moral absolutes. They have all failed. They’ve failed because they’ve been powerless to change the human heart. What is the answer? There is hope, if we will turn to God.
Billy Graham
If we allow our Christian faith to be adulterated with materialism, watered down by secularism, and intermingled with a bland humanism, we cannot stand up to a system that has vowed to bury us.
Billy Graham
Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday’s luxuries are today’s necessities.
Billy Graham
There are two ways of being rich—have a lot, or want very little. The latter way is the easier for most.
Billy Graham
There are those who have made their fortunes on other people’s misfortune. The Bible never promised that life would be fair.
Billy Graham
Pleasure depends on circumstances, but Christian joy is completely independent of health, money, or surroundings.
Billy Graham
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
Billy Graham
God does not need our money. He owns everything, including “our” money. What He wants [us] to discover is where our central focus of worship lies. Is that focus on God or our money?
Billy Graham
Materialism and self-centeredness are the great vices of our age.
Billy Graham
We are only stewards of the world’s resources. They are not ours; they are God’s. When we find our security in Him, we can then give generously from what He has entrusted to us. This is our Christian duty.
Billy Graham
We can possess nothing—no property and no person . . . It is God who owns everything, and we are but stewards of His property during the brief time we are on earth.
Billy Graham
Can people tell from the emphasis we attach to material things whether we have set our affection on things above, or whether we are primarily attached to this world?
Billy Graham
If young people could only realize that a happy marriage depends not only on the present, but upon the past, they would be more reluctant to enter into loose, intimate relations with anyone and everyone.
Billy Graham
Marriage is a holy bond because it permits two people to help each other work out their spiritual destinies. God declared marriage to be good.
Billy Graham
Marriage is the most serious long-term contract a couple will make in their lifetime, but many enter into it with a lack of maturity and knowledge. The growing number of divorces shows how imperative it is that young people be adequately prepared for marriage.
Billy Graham
Nothing brings more joy than a good marriage, and nothing brings more misery than a bad marriage.
Billy Graham
Thousands of young couples go through with a loveless marriage because no one ever told them what genuine love is. If people today knew that kind of love, the divorce rate would be sharply reduced.
Billy Graham