Quotes by Evangelists - Page 36

Some people think that going to church on Sunday and owning a dust-covered Bible makes a person a Christian. That is not true. A Christian is one in whom Christ dwells, and the person’s life will give evidence of this.
Billy Graham
Christians are expected to carry the marks of the Lord Jesus, not adapt to the fashionable counterculture driven by marketing traps.
Billy Graham
If you are a true Christian . . .you will reveal through your daily life the fruit of the Spirit . . .and all the other Christian virtues which round out a Christlike personality.
Billy Graham
A born-again Christian should no more think of going back to the old life than an adult to his childhood.
Billy Graham
Many Christians who profess Christ do not live as though they possess Him.
Billy Graham
Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal
Leonard Ravenhill
If we make a full surrender, God will give us something better than we have ever known before. We will get a new vision of Jesus Christ, and will thank God not only in this life but in the life to come. May God help each and every one of us to make a full and complete and unconditional surrender to God, fully and wholly, now and forever.
Dwight L. Moody
Anything that dims my vision of Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me, and I must, as a Christian, turn away from it.
J. Wilbur Chapman
The more familiar acquaintance we have with God the more do we partake of him. He that passes by the fire may have some gleams of heat, but he that stands by it has his colour changed. It is not possible that a man should have any long conference with God and be no whit affected. If we are strangers to God it is no wonder that our faces become earthy.
William Bramwell
As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time unless he eats, so is with the inner man. What is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God-not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe. No, we must consider what we read, ponder over it, and apply it to our hearts.
George Müller
After the Lord has tried our faith, he, in the love of His heart, gives us an abundance. For the glory of His name and for trial of our faith, He allows us to be poor and then graciously supplies our needs.
George Müller
The primary business I must attend to every day is to fellowship with the Lord. The first concern is not how much I might serve the Lord, but how my inner man might be nourished.
George Müller
I believe God has heard my prayers. He will make it manifest in His own good time that He has heard me. I have recorded my petitions that when God has answered them, His name will be glorified.
George Müller
Every child of God is not called by the Lord to establish schools and orphan houses and to trust in the Lord for means for them. Yet, there is no reason why you may not experience, far more abundantly than we do now, His willingness to answer the prayers of His children.
George Müller
‎Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.
Billy Graham
Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality.
Billy Graham
Laying up treasures in heaven will draw the heart heavenward.
George Müller
Money is really worth no more than as it can be used to accomplish the Lord's work. Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lord's service.
George Müller
What a beautiful name. I love to watch how it falls off the lips of those who love Him. I shudder as it falls off the lips of those who don't. Jesus.
Beth Moore
God surpasses our dreams when we reach past our personal plans and agenda to grab the hand of Christ and walk the path he chose for us.  He is obligated to keep us dissatisfied until we come to him and his plan for complete satisfaction.
Beth Moore
‎"I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Moody, save all you can.
Dwight L. Moody
Wow! you might actually have to act like a Christian sometimes!
Joyce Meyer
Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believed in the revealing truth Scripture.
Charles W. Colson
If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.
Joyce Meyer
God has given me a lifeboat and said... 'Moody save all you can
Dwight L. Moody
The world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to Him
Dwight L. Moody
You can fight the feelings of depression by reminding yourself of blessings in your life. You can listen to music or sing. Even getting your mind off yourself by doing something kind for someone else will help immensely. Don't forget that our moods are connected to our thoughts; therefore, I urge you to take notice of what you're thinking about when you feel depressed. You may find the source of your problem.
Joyce Meyer
You cannot fully wrap your mind around God, so better to fully wrap God around your mind.
James Randall Robison
Science is learning to control everything but man.
Billy Graham
The blessing of knowledge becomes a curse when we pervert it.
Billy Graham
If ever a generation was bequeathed the knowledge of God, we were. Yet we are throwing away this glorious heritage on our lust and passions.
Billy Graham
The more man learns, the less he knows.
Billy Graham
Today an educated, civilized society is turning its face while thousands of unborn babies are being killed. God Himself, if not history, will judge this greater holocaust.
Billy Graham
Much of the world in search of knowledge and fulfillment ignores God!
Billy Graham
Today we have more knowledge than at any other time in history. In seconds our laptops or PCs can call up information about a topic that would have taken years to collect. Young people graduate with more knowledge than ever before—but in spite of their knowledge, they are confused, bewildered, frustrated, and without moral moorings.
Billy Graham
It is the absence of the knowledge of God and man’s refusal to obey Him that lie at the root of every problem which besets us.
Billy Graham
We are the most informed people in the history of civilization—and yet the most confused. Though our heads are crammed with knowledge, our hearts are empty.
Billy Graham
Most Christians are like a man who was toiling along the road, bending under a heavy burden, when a wagon overtook him. The driver kindly offered to help him on his journey. He joyfully accepted the offer but, when he was seated, continued to bend beneath his burden, which he still kept on his shoulders. "Why do you not lay down your burden?" asked the kind-hearted driver. "Oh!" replied the man, "I feel that it is almost too much to ask you to carry me, and I could not think of letting you carry my burden too." And so Christian who have given themselves into the care and keeping of the Lord Jesus still continue to bend beneath the weight of their burdens and often go weary and heavy-laden throughout the whole length of their journey.
Hannah Whitall Smith
Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within.
Dawson Trotman
You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion.
Joyce Meyer
Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.
Dwight L. Moody
It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.
Joyce Meyer
Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.
Bob Pierce
Sometimes when I open my Bible to read, a verse leaps off the page and I know God is speaking to me. Sometimes I read and nothing seems to be illuminated. Sometimes I pray and have the keen sense that He is listening to every word and will answer me. Sometimes when I pray, I have no awareness that He's anywhere around. Sometimes when I go to church or draw aside for some quiet reflection, I have the overwhelming sense that Jesus is right beside me. At other times in the exact same settings, I have no conscious awareness of His presence at all. And I know by each experience — as I read my Bible and pray and work and worship — that He is teaching me to live by FAITH, not by my feelings.
Anne Graham Lotz
I will use this period of spiritual training in my life to focus on the greatness of my God instead of the impossibility of my circumstances.
John Bevere
Trees endure the hot sun and rainstorms by sending their roots down deeper. The adversity they face is eventually the source of great stability. The harshness of the elements surrounding them causes them to seek another source of life. They will one day come to the place that even the greatest of windstorms cannot affect their ability to produce fruit.
John Bevere
There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.
Frank Buchman
A man told me a while ago he could not believe a thing he had never seen. I said, “Man, did you ever see your brain?
Dwight L. Moody
It is better to live ready than to get ready!
Smith Wigglesworth
A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.
Bob Harrington
My righteousness is just as good as Jesus' righteousness, because it IS Jesus' righteousness!
E.W. Kenyon
To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.
Dwight L. Moody
Fear tries to get us to give up but faith takes us all the way through to victory
Joyce Meyer
Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.
Beth Moore
Faith makes all things possible. Love makes them easy.
Dwight L. Moody
Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.
Joyce Meyer
A man who is intimate with God is not intimidated by man.
Leonard Ravenhill
Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air...but only for one second without hope.
Hal Lindsey
Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.
Dwight L. Moody
Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have
Joyce Meyer