Billy Graham
When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I've had a lot of physical problems.
My wife is already in Heaven.
I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.
I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.
Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them.
Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.
Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.
Occasionally I've seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.
Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.
The Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.
While I have never learned to use a computer, I am surrounded by family and friends who carry information to me from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and various websites.
The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on this planet. Disease will be eliminated. Death will be abolished. War will be eradicated. Nature will be transformed.
My wife has about everything I can think of.
Even Hubble hasn't found yet the end of this universe, and we don't know that it has any end.
I'm grateful for the evangelical resurgence we've seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God's doing.
I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I'm still sort of an invalid now.
My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.
One of the things I miss most is that I can no longer read, due to age-related macular degeneration. I get regular injections for this, and thankfully these seem to have arrested its progress, but it's still very difficult for me to read. That means it is hard for me to pick up my Bible and read it like I used to, and I miss that very much.
The Bible says that as Christians we don't grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven - but we still grieve.
Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.
I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.
We're all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.
Spend more time in study and prayer. That's the secret of successful evangelism.
The human heart is the same the world over.
I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.
I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man.
Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.
I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.
I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.
We go on in our pleasures thinking they're going to last forever.
I don't think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.
I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.
I'm going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: 'Lord, remember me.'
I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.
People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.
It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.
The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.
I just want to lobby for God.
I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.
I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all.
If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.
I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.
I don't think there is a single social issue I haven't spoken on.
Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians.
I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.
I don't think I get angry.
When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.
I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.