Billy Graham Quotes - Page 17

Throughout our culture we have been led to the idea that we accept death as the end of life on earth . . .Time bound as we are and goal oriented to achievements in our lifetime, we find it strange to anticipate heaven.

Sooner or later, we are going to face death; should we be making preparations while we are living?

When God speaks to us, He should have our full attention.

God has paid the greatest debt you will ever incur, and once you understand the incredible sacrifice He has made just for you, you will feel compelled to turn to God and to accept Jesus Christ into your heart.

Benevolent hands reach down from heaven to offer us the most hopeful warning and remedy: “Prepare to meet your God.

Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.

All believers are called to be holy in mind, body, and spirit (1 Peter 1:15).

If we are living according to what we believe, we may be falsely accused.

Make it your goal to become more like Christ by refusing to let sin have its way, and pursuing instead that which is pure and good in the sight of God.

We often seek to please ourselves first, instead of God. What is interesting is that when we seek to please God first, very often we discover that we end up far more pleased than we did when we put ourselves first.

I am engaged in spiritual warfare every day. I must never let down my guard—I must keep armed.

Being” is far more important than “doing.” When we are what we should be inside, we will bring forth fruit.

Submission . . . involves getting rid of everything which hinders God’s control over our lives.

Whatever is unlike Christ in conduct, speech, or disposition grieves the Spirit of grace.

To be Spirit-filled is to be controlled or dominated by the Spirit’s presence and power.

The lives of many reflect the practices and standards of this present world . . . they are more interested in imitating the world system dominated by Satan than in imitating Christ.

When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God.

We have been told by God that if we sin against Him and break His commandments, He will bring judgment upon the world. It is my responsibility and my duty as a minister of the Gospel to [warn] people. This is the message I must deliver.

Denying the existence of God cannot make Him go away any more than denying the existence of the Internal Revenue Service can make the tax man vanish. Many people who imagine a god of their own choosing will be horrified when they stand before the true God of heaven.

Extremes should be avoided.

[Our] minds are molded in many different ways— often in ways we are not aware of at the time. I am convinced that many things—the films we watch, the television we see, the music we listen to, the books we read—have a great effect on us.

The more we yield to pressure, the more easily we will yield next time.

May our gratitude find expression in our prayers and our service for others, and in our commitment to live wholly for Christ.

Be honest about your weaknesses and ask God to help you overcome them so you can serve Christ more effectively.

God wants to use you right where you are. Every day you probably come in contact with people who will never enter a church, or talk with a pastor, or open a Bible— and God wants to use you to point them to Christ. You may be the “bridge” God would use to bring them to Himself.

Oh God, if You want me to serve You, I will. I’ll be what You want me to be. I’ll go where You want me to go.

If we are going to touch the people of our communities, we too must know their sorrows, feel for them in their temptations, stand with them in their heartbreaks. Jesus Christ entered into the arena of our troubles, and He wept with them that wept and rejoiced with them that rejoiced.

Many Christians would prefer to hear “What a great guy” from the crowd rather than “Well done, good and faithful servant” from the Master [Matthew 25:23].

One of Satan’s most effective ways of blocking God’s work is to convince us God can’t use us to make an impact for Christ. But it isn’t true. All around you are people no one else will ever be able to reach with the Gospel.

Jesus, by example, tells us that every true leader should be a helper, a servant, or even a bondslave. This is a command, not a suggestion, and applies with special force to leaders.

The strain of Christian service can result in sickness . . . I have known Christian workers who have risked their lives and health in serving the Lord.

Thinking of and serving with others can be an antidote to negative and unhealthy introspection.

God never calls a person [into His service] without equipping him. I know that from experience.

Persecution is one of the natural consequences of living the Christian life. It is to the Christian what “growing pains” are to the growing child. No pain, no development. No suffering, no glory. No struggle, no victory. No persecution, no reward!

Every area of our lives is to be under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. And that means the searchlight of God’s Word must penetrate every corner of our lives.

Popularity and adulation are far more dangerous for the Christian than persecution. It is easy when all goes smoothly to lose our sense of balance and perspective.

The world doesn’t really have much respect for Christians who adopt its fashions and ideas. It is inclined to regard them with contempt—to write them off either as cowards who are ashamed of their faith or as frauds whose profession is not sincere.

There must be no discrepancy between what we say and what we do, between our walk and our talk.

You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.

[There are] seven gifts God gives you when you commit your life to Christ: a new relationship, a new citizenship, a new family, a new purpose, a new power, a new destiny, and a new journey.

The closer you are to God, the farther you are from the devil.

Some things never change. Not the ABC’s, not the multiplication tables, not God!

Once a minute passes it can never be reclaimed.

Heaven has no clocks or calendars, and time will be no more [Revelation 10:6].

We relegate God to our spare time—but end up never having any spare time! Jesus said, “Seek first his kingdom” [Matthew 6:33 NIV].

The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.

The most important events in human history were the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.

Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give them completely and unreservedly to Christ.

Because of what Jesus Christ did for us through His cross and resurrection, we know that we have hope for the future.

By [Christ’s] resurrection life, He gives us the power over the tendency to sin as we allow Him to control our lives.

Never forget that the resurrection of Christ is in many ways the central event of all history.

At the return of Christ the resurrection of believers will take place. It will take the unbelieving world by surprise.

Death has two stages, first the separation of the body from the spirit . . . for a purely spiritual existence, and second, reunion with the body and a glorious resurrection at the Second Coming of Christ.

The resurrection is our great hope.

The Bible teaches that you have three enemies . . . the devil . . . the world . . . the flesh.

Christ broke the bonds of death by His resurrection, and from that moment on, Satan was a defeated foe.

The [twentieth century] could well go down in history not so much as a century of progress but as “the century of superficiality.

You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.

Christians are to be “the light of the world” [Matthew 5:14], illuminating the darkness caused by sin and giving guidance to a world that has lost its way.

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