Billy Graham
Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it will be like.Collection: Running
The key word of the dedicated Christian should be 'give.' Charitable contributions speak eloquently of your unselfish Christian generosity.Collection: Christian
If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.Collection: Spiritual
If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.Collection: Evil
I received Christ into my heart and my life began to change. But it was a gradual change. And I didn't see any flashing bulbs. I didn't hear any thunder. There was no great emotional experience. It was just saying: Yes, Lord Jesus, I want you to be the lord of my life.Collection: Jesus
One of the primary goals in life ... should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.Collection: Death
The blood of the lamb applied over the doorpost on the night of Israel's deliverance from Egypt distinguished the obedient from the disobedient. Just so today the applied blood of the Lamb of God is the distinguishing mark of God's called out ones, the church.Collection: Night
The greatest need in the world at this moment is the transformation of human nature.Collection: Humanity
Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.Collection: Christian
All mankind is crying out for guidance, for comfort, for peace.Collection: Tears
The hope we have in Christ is an absolute certainty. We can be sure that the place Christ is preparing for us will be ready when we arrive, because with Him nothing is left to chance. Everything He promised He will deliver.Collection: Chance
The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing of circumstances and most bitter environment.Collection: Soul
Sex is front-page copy everywhere. [But] nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.Collection: Sex
When you come to Christ, you have to give up all the other gods.Collection: Giving Up
The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.Collection: Christmas
Christ demands first place. There's no room on the throne of your heart for two gods.Collection: Heart
There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three.Collection: Jesus
My job is simply to proclaim the Gospel, and to let the Spirit of God apply in the individual hearts. When I give the invitation for people to receive Christ it will be so quiet you can hear a pin drop. And you will see people coming forward deliberately, quietly, reverently, thoughtfully, and many of their lives. . . . will have been transformed and changed in that moment.Collection: Jobs
Because God is love, He could not completely cast man aside.Collection: Men
The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.Collection: Suffering
We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)Collection: Compassion
Don't apologize for who you are and what you've done in the past. Be who you are and do what you do.Collection: Past
A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.Collection: Humor
The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection.Collection: Easter
We're all so busy. We race and race. Life is a sprint. We want to get 'there' so badly. But I wonder if we even know what to do when we actually get 'there'.Collection: Race
Heaven is full of answers for which nobody ever bothered to ask.Collection: Heaven
There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul.Collection: Christian
I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.Collection: Men
Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.Collection: Want
Do you want to trust your life in God's pocket or keep it in your own?Collection: Pockets
The word of God hidden in the heart is a stubborn voice to suppress.Collection: Bible
Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin.Collection: Forgiveness
Life is a glorious opportunity.Collection: Opportunity
God has not promised to bless my thoughts, but He has promised to bless His Word.Collection: Bless
Every successful work of God must have opposition.Collection: Successful
To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?Collection: Family
Think about the holes children make when they dig in the sand on the seashore. When the waves come in, the holes are swallowed up by the ocean. Similarly, when we know Christ, our physical death is overwhelmed by the love and grace of God. Death is swallowed up in the victory of Christ.Collection: Children
Most of us do not understand nuclear fission, but we accept it. I don't understand television, but I accept it. I don't understand radio, but every week my voice goes out around the world, and I accept it. Why is it so easy to accept all these man-made miracles and so difficult to accept the miracles of the Bible?Collection: Faith
The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.Collection: Home
God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. If we fail to fulfill this divine duty and privilege we have missed the meaning of Christianity.Collection: Hands
If there are any tears shed in heaven, it will be because we prayed so little.Collection: Heaven
It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before the horse. They are teaching purity of motives, desires, and actions to old, deceitful hearts! No wonder we have ended up such moral failures, in spite of our vaunted knowledge and psychological approaches.Collection: Horse
Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.Collection: Song
Life itself, every bit of health that we enjoy, every hour of liberty and free enjoyment, the ability to see, to hear, to speak, to think, and to imagine- all this comes from the hand of God. We show our gratitude by giving back to Him a part of that which He has given to us.Collection: Gratitude
The Holy Spirit gives liberty to the Christian, direction to the worker, discernment to the teacher, power to the Word, and fruit to faithful service. He reveals the things of Christ.Collection: Christian
The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God.Collection: Heaven
God did not create the strife between races, nor did He intend for it to be that way. Strife between races and ethnic groups comes from sin-and sin resides in the human heart. The Bible says, “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?” (James 4:1). When one group or one race claims it is superior to another, pride has taken control-and pride is a sin.Instead, God wants us to learn to accept each other and love each other-and this becomes possible, as we turn our lives over to Christ and allow Him to change us from within.Collection: Taken
What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives. Is that too much to ask?Collection: Jesus
Wherever the Gospel is preached, no matter how crudely, there are bound to be results.Collection: Matter