Billy Graham
God made us for one reason: so He could have fellowship with us. It wasn't that He was lonely or needed us but He made us in His image so He could shower His love upon us.Collection: Lonely
In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.Collection: Christian
Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word.Collection: Soil
God's holiness demands that sin be punished - but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.Collection: Redemption
[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.Collection: New Relationship
One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper was not hostile; he was not opposed to them, but his inn was crowded; his hands were full; his mind was preoccupied. This is the answer that millions are giving today. Like a Bethlehem innkeeper, they cannot find room for Christ. All the accommodations in their hearts are already taken up by other crowding interests. Their response is not atheism. It is not defiance. It is preoccupation and the feeling of being able to get on reasonably well without Christianity.Collection: Children
If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.Collection: Mind
Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus.Collection: Jesus
The greatest fear comes when God is a stranger.Collection: Fear
In some Churches today and on some religious television programs, we see the attempt to make Christianity popular and pleasant. We have taken the cross away and substituted cushions.Collection: Religious
Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.Collection: Prayer
The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give'Collection: Christian
Some believe strongly that each Christian may have his own guardian angel assigned to watch over him or her.Collection: Christian
The philosopher says think your way out. The sensualist says play your way out but none of it works.Collection: Thinking
I am convinced that people are open to the Christian message if it is seasoned with authority and proclaimed as God's own Word.Collection: Christian
What makes us Christians shrug our shoulders when we ought to be flexing our muscles? What makes us apathetic in a day when there are loads to lift, a world to be won and captives to be set free? Why are so many bored when the times demand action?Collection: Christian
He (man) is both dust of earth and breath of God.Collection: Men
When Scripture talks about the heart, it's not talking about that life-sustaining muscle. It's talking about our entire inner being. The heart is the seat of our emotions, the seat of decisive action, and the seat of belief (as well as doubt).Collection: Heart
I am constantly concerned about being quoted in the press and perhaps saying the wrong thing or having what I say misinterpreted and bringing reproach to the name of Christ. People do not come to hear what Billy Graham has to say; they want to hear what God has to say. Jesus tells us not to be misled by the voices of strangers. There are so many strange voices being heard in the religious world of our day. We must compare what they say with the Word of God.Collection: Religious
Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish.Collection: Decision
Much of the philosophy of religious education has been based upon a false premise, and perhaps many have missed the essence of Christian experience, having had religious training take its place.Collection: Christian
During this Christmas season, when the world seems to be in turmoil, wars are breaking out in different places, crime is rampant, and many things are happening that are great sins in the sight of God. But in that crib is the person who grew up to save us. And He did.Collection: Christmas
We are more united than ever before. I think this was exemplified in a very moving way when the members of our Congress stood shoulder to shoulder the other day and sang God Bless America.Collection: Moving
In my family we got up in the mornings around three o'clock and went out to the barns to bring the cows in and milk. In high school I milked about twenty cows every morning and about twenty in the afternoon when I got home. I have wonderful memories from those early days when my parent's influence was so strong.Collection: Strong
The thing that I remember the most in my childhood was the love of family and the discipline in the family. My father and mother both were disciplinarians, and they didn't mind using the rod. Maybe because I was the oldest child I always felt I got much more of it than anybody else.Collection: Mother
I'd grown up in a Presbyterian church, but I really didn't know Christ personally in my heart. I knew him, but I didn't know him. And there's a difference between an intellectual faith and a personal, heart faith in which I opened my heart to him and let him rule my life.Collection: Heart
I'm glad to know that we do have political leaders that believe in God, and that has been true from the days of George Washington.Collection: Believe
I have many friends that don't claim to be followers of Christ. As far as day-to-day friendship and being together at various functions, I don't think that there should be any difference at all.Collection: Thinking
Scripture tells us that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord. I believe all these signs are evident today.Collection: Believe
I am convinced that when a man sincerely searches for God with all his heart, God will reveal Himself in some way.Collection: Heart
Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn't in you.Collection: Loving God
... the same hand that made trees and fields and flowers, the seas and hills, the clouds and sky, has been making a home for us called heaven.Collection: Flower
When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.Collection: Forgiveness
Suffering can give us opportunities to witness. The world is a gigantic hospital; nowhere is there a greater chance to see the peace and joy of the Lord than when the journey though the valley is the darkest.Collection: Opportunity
Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.Collection: Prayer
God's hand never slips.Collection: God
Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.Collection: Forgiveness
God never tempts any man. That is Satan's business.Collection: Men
Evil is real - but so is God's power and love.Collection: Real
Most of all, God has blessed us by giving us the privilege of knowing Him and walking with Him every day. He did this by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins.Collection: God
God will not force himself upon us against our will. If we want his love, we need to believe in him. We need to make a definite, positive act of commitment and surrender to the love of God. No one can do it for us.Collection: God
"Salvation is always "good news." It is news of God's love and forgiveness-adoption into His family- fellowship with His people-freedom from the penalty of sin- liberation from the power of sin."Collection: People
Commitment to great causes makes great men.Collection: Commitment
Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope.Collection: Spiritual
Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.Collection: Real
When we live apart from God, our lives get out of tune - out of harmony with others and with God. But if we live in tune with the Master, we, too, will find ourselves surrounded by His beautiful music. As this new year begins, ask God to help you tune your life every day to His Word, so you can bring harmony and joy to those around you.Collection: Beautiful
I only know that when Jesus is with a person, that one can endure the deepest suffering and somehow emerge a better and stronger Christian because of it.Collection: Christian
It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put Jesus on the cross - it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer His death.Collection: Jesus