Quotes by Evangelists - Page 9

Conscience is our wisest counselor and teacher, our most faithful and most patient friend.
Billy Graham
You will never know the peace with God, peace of conscience, peace of mind, and peace of soul until you stand at the foot of the cross and identify yourself with Christ by faith . . . this is peace with God.
Billy Graham
Christ can rid you of inner conflict. Man without God is always torn between two urges. His nature prompts him to do wrong, and his conscience urges him to do right.
Billy Graham
In your own mind-darkened, will-paralyzed, conscience-dulled soul, God can make the light penetrate and turn the darkness of your own life into day, if you will let Him.
Billy Graham
We’ve tried calling sin “errors” or mistakes” or “poor judgment,” but sin itself has stayed the same. No matter how we try to salve our conscience, we’ve known all along that men are still sinners; and the results of sin are still disease, disappointment, disillusionment, despair, and death.
Billy Graham
Conscience tells us in our innermost being of the presence of God and of the moral difference between good and evil; but this is a fragmentary message, in no way as distinct and comprehensive as the lessons of the Bible.
Billy Graham
Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilty conscience were worse than prison bars.
Billy Graham
Dishonesty is never justified. God will never approve, and even your own conscience will rise up to condemn you sooner or later.
Billy Graham
The human conscience is often beyond the grasp of a psychiatrist . . .Humans are helpless to detach themselves from the gnawing guilt of a heart bowed down with the weight of sin. But where humans have failed, God has succeeded.
Billy Graham
The human conscience is reliable only when it is guided by the Holy Spirit.
Billy Graham
Some Christians have an elastic conscience when it comes to their own foibles—and an ironbound conscience when it comes to the foibles of others.
Billy Graham
Sin also affects the conscience, until one becomes slow to detect the approach of sin.
Billy Graham
There are storms in your own life: storms oftemptation, confusion, and difficulty . . .An uneasy conscience says, “Stop before it is too late!
Billy Graham
As a person finds God’s will for his or her life, matters of conscience can be handled with perception from the Holy Spirit.
Billy Graham
From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life.
Billy Graham
The one and only choice by which you can be converted is your choice to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as your own personal Lord and Savior. The word “conversion” means simply “turning.
Billy Graham
In every true conversion the will of man comes into line with the will of God.
Billy Graham
True conversion will involve the mind, the affection, and the will. There have been thousands of people who have been intellectually converted to Christ . . .but they have never been really converted to Him.
Billy Graham
Anxiety and fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow.
Billy Graham
Look up on a starry night, and you will see the majesty and power of an infinite Creator.
Billy Graham
Though we have less to worry about than previous generations, we have more worry. Though we have it easier than our forefathers, we have more uneasiness. Though we have less real cause for anxiety than our predecessors, we are inwardly more anxious.
Billy Graham
Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us.
Billy Graham
Hypochondriacs who have a fanciful anxiety about their health will never be well regardless of their physical condition.
Billy Graham
Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age?
Billy Graham
God’s star promised peace to the whole world . . .too often man’s synthetic stars bring fear and anxiety. Our gadget-filled paradise, suspended in a hell of international insecurity, certainly does not offer us the happiness of which the last century dreamed. But there is still a star in the sky.
Billy Graham
Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world’s goods.
Billy Graham
A professor at the University of Michigan said to me: “As soon as we create life in a test tube, we won’t need God anymore.” I answered: “This happened once before when man ruled God out and proposed the Tower of Babel. It ended in frustration, confusion, and judgment.
Billy Graham
The Bible is the one book which reveals the Creator to the creature He created! No other book that man has conceived can make that statement and support it with fact.
Billy Graham
Have we just been placed here by some unknown creator or force without any clue as to where we came from, why we are here, and where we are going? The answer is “no.” We do have a code. We do have a key . . . the Bible.
Billy Graham
The only one who can re-create us is the One who created us in the first place. If your watch were out of order, you wouldn’t take it to a blacksmith. If your car needed overhauling, you wouldn’t go to a machine shop. Our spiritual problems can be solved only by the God who created us originally.
Billy Graham
As a Christian, I believe that we are all created in the image of God. I believe that God loves the whole world . . .The life of no human being is cheap in the eyes of God, nor can it be in our own eyes.
Billy Graham
There is no conclusive scientific evidence that man is “up from the ape.” While the animals were created “after their kind,” we are told that “God created man in His own image” [Genesis 1:27 NKJV].
Billy Graham
There is no point of space, whether inside or outside the bounds of creation, where God is not present. That is why when we ask the question, “Who’s in control?” we can answer without equivocation, “God is!
Billy Graham
Any theory of the universe that does not take into account the God and Creator of the universe is not worthy of serious consideration.
Billy Graham
God is the Ruler of His mighty creation. There is no reason to despair, because He holds in His hands the whole world, while His Spirit is able to fill the void in man’s heart.
Billy Graham
[God] has in mind a picture of what He intends to create. He breaks, cracks, chisels, and polishes until one day there emerges His vision . . . God has not yet finished with us.
Billy Graham
By faith I accepted Him for what He claimed to be, the Son of the Living God. That simple decision changed my life—and I have seen it change the lives of countless others across the world.
Billy Graham
When my decision for Christ was made . . . I knelt in prayer. I opened my heart and knew for the first time the sweetness and joy of God, of truly being born again . . .I knew in my heart that I was somehow different and changed. That night absolutely changed the direction of my life.
Billy Graham
Some people resist the idea of a choice of any sort. They don’t want to be called “narrow.” But Jesus taught that there are two roads, and you have to choose which road you will take.
Billy Graham
There are two masters, and you have to choose which master you are going to serve.
Billy Graham
There is not a day that we do not have a chance to choose between the devil’s clever promises and God’s sure Word.
Billy Graham
From the beginning of time until the present moment, man’s ungodly quest for power, his determination to use his gift of free choice for his own selfish ends, has brought him to the brink of doom.
Billy Graham
Our families cannot choose Christ for us. Our friends cannot do it. God is a great God, but even God can’t make the decision for us . . .we have to make our own choice.
Billy Graham
[God] created us free to choose how we would live . . . but leaves us free to pursue our own ends with tragic, natural consequences.
Billy Graham
The Bible clearly teaches that when we turn our backs on God and choose to disregard His moral laws there are inevitable consequences. Furthermore it is not God who is to blame for the consequences, but the person who has broken His law.
Billy Graham
The Antichrist . . . will be the embodiment of evil, and will have great power to deceive those who choose to follow him.
Billy Graham
[Our] problems boil down to one of moral choices.God wanted a world based on moral values,thus He created mankind with the ability to respond to moral choices.Faced with the moral option of living selfishly or unselfishly, people can and do make wrong decisions. We are free to choose, but we reap the consequences of bad moral decisions.
Billy Graham
Ultimately, every human being must face this question: What do you think of Christ? Whose Son is He? We must answer this question with belief and action. We must not only believe something about Jesus, but we must do something about Him. We must accept Him or reject Him.
Billy Graham
The destiny of your own soul is in your own hands by the choice you make.
Billy Graham
Have you ever seen a person who was receiving a blood transfusion? The blood was precious, life-giving, and certainly not repulsive. The blood of Christ may seem to be a grim and repulsive subject . . .[but] the blood of Christ is precious.
Billy Graham
Blood is the symbol of the life sacrificed for sin.
Billy Graham
Once for all God made complete and perfect provision for the cure of man’s sins; without the blood of Christ, it is indeed a fatal disease.
Billy Graham
We are called to obey Christ. He is the Master of our lives and has washed us in His blood, which cleanses our souls, our minds, and our mouths. The world is watching. What do they see and hear?
Billy Graham
To many people, the mention of the blood of Christ is distasteful. However, on [a] visit to Mayo Clinic I noticed that at each reception desk there were pamphlets entitled A Gift of Life, urging people to donate blood.Anyone who has gone through surgery and looked up to seethe bag of blood dripping slowly into his veins,realizes with gratitude the life-giving property of blood.5
Billy Graham
Blood is mentioned 460 times in the Bible. Fourteen times in the New Testament Jesus spoke of His own blood. Why? Because by the shedding of His blood, He accomplished the possibility of our salvation.
Billy Graham
The distinctive feature of Christianity is blood atonement. Without it we cannot be saved. Blood is actually a symbol of the death of Christ.
Billy Graham
[Today] there is less emphasis on redemption by the blood of Christ.
Billy Graham
Today the idea of the shed blood of Christ is becoming old-fashioned and out of date in a lot of preaching. It is in the Bible. It is the very heart of Christianity.
Billy Graham
Many of the mysteries of God—the heartaches, trials, disappointments, tragedies, and the silence of God in the midst of suffering—will be revealed in heaven.
Billy Graham
Peter preached about [the blood]. Paul wrote about it, and the redeemed in heaven sing about it. In a sense, the New Testament is the Book of the Blood.
Billy Graham