Quotes By Billy Graham

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

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.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

I don't think there is a single social issue I haven't spoken on.

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

I'm not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.

I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians.

Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

I am not a televangelist.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.

We're all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.