Quotes By Billy Graham

I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

I don't have many sad days.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.

Once you've lost your privacy, you realize you've lost an extremely valuable thing.

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.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

I just want to lobby for God.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.

People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

I'm not an analyzer. I've got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don't analyze people.

I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe.

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.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.