Inspirational Quotes by Billy Graham
“Patience in our lives springs from God’s power based upon our willingness to learn it.”
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“To many people, the mention of the blood of Christ is distasteful. However, on [a] visit to Mayo Clinic I noticed that at each reception desk there were pamphlets entitled A Gift of Life, urging people to donate blood. Anyone who has gone through surgery and looked up to see the bag of blood dripping slowly into his veins, realizes with gratitude the life-giving property of blood.5”
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“During World War II, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker and his crew ran out of fuel and ditched their B-17 in the Pacific Ocean. For weeks nothing was heard of him, and across the country thousands of people prayed Then he returned and in an article told what had happened. “And this part I would hesitate to tell,” he wrote, “except that there were six witnesses who saw it with me. A gull came out of nowhere, and lighted on my head—I reached up my hand very gently—I killed him and then we divided him equally among us. We ate every bit, even the little bones. Nothing ever tasted so good.” This gull saved them from starvation. Years later I asked him to tell me the story personally, because it was through this experience that he came to know Christ. He said, “I have no explanation except that God sent one of His angels to rescue us.” We may never see them, but God still sends His angels to surround and protect His children—including you.”
“Children will learn far more by watching than by just listening.”
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“Christ said there is a happiness in that acknowledgement of spiritual poverty which lets God come into our souls.”
― Billy Graham ,
“The human race is called on throughout the Bible to repent of sin and return to God.”
― Billy Graham ,
“What is the authority in your life? Is it your selfishness? Your lust? Your greed? Or have you turned it all over to God and said, “Lord, You are going to be my authority”? When you are under authority, you are then able to assume authority.”
― Billy Graham ,
“That “the Spirit Himself intercedes” indicates that it is actually God pleading, praying, and mourning through us.”
― Billy Graham ,
“The greatest vision of sin that a person can ever receive is to look at the cross.”
― Billy Graham ,
“Any Christian whose interest is directed toward himself is worldly.”
― Billy Graham ,
“Como humanos tenemos dos grandes necesidades espirituales. La primera es de perdón, el cual Dios hizo posible al enviar a su Hijo al mundo a morir por nuestros pecados. Nuestra segunda necesidad, sin embargo, es de bondad, la cual el Señor también hace posible al enviar al Espíritu Santo a morar dentro de nosotros. Si hemos de vivir como Dios desea que vivamos, si hemos de parecernos más a Cristo, si hemos de viajar sabiamente en nuestra travesía, entonces necesitamos tanto perdón como bondad. Necesitamos la obra del Hijo a favor de nosotros, y necesitamos la obra del Espíritu Santo en nosotros. Al fabuloso regalo del perdón Dios añade la fantástica dádiva del Espíritu Santo.”
“We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with God’s moral code.”
― Billy Graham ,
“No one is exempt from the touch of tragedy: neither the Christian nor the non-Christian; neither the rich nor the poor; neither the leader or the commoner. Crossing all racial, social, political, and economic barriers, suffering reaches out to unite mankind.”
― Billy Graham ,
“I could recall countless illustrations of men and women who have encountered Jesus Christ . . .Their whole lives have been transformed.”
― Billy Graham ,
“The lukewarm Christian can accomplish nothing with a whole life in which to do it. If you have lived for sin and self . . . your witness will have [a] telling effect on all who have known you.”
― Billy Graham ,
“It is unfair to attribute virtues beyond a person’s true character.”
― Billy Graham ,
“Worship in the truest sense takes place only when our full attention is on God—on His glory, power, majesty, love and compassion.”
― Billy Graham ,
“The Garden of Eden was somewhere in present-day Iraq. The turmoil and war [we are witnessing] in that part of the world . . .is occurring in the land where God established the first perfect civilization.”
― Billy Graham ,
“Someday your children will leave; you can’t hold on to them or control them forever, nor should you.”
― Billy Graham ,
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William Franklin "Billy" Graham, Jr. is an American evangelist and an Evangelical Christian. He has been a spiritual adviser to multiple United States presidents and was number eight on Gallup's list of admired people for the 20th century. He is a Southern Baptist. He rose to celebrity status due to his sermons being broadcast on radio and television.
Graham has preached in person to more people around the world than any other Protestant in history. According to his staff, as of 1993 more than 2.5 million people had "stepped forward at his crusades to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior". As of 2008, Graham's lifetime audience, including radio and television broadcasts, topped 2.2 billion.
Billy Graham, the American Christian evangelist, is best known for his worldwide evangelistic crusades preaching the message of Christianity to more people than anyone in history. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) reports, "nearly 215 million people in more than 185 countries" have been reached through his ministry. In his lifetime, he has led many thousands to make a decision to receive Jesus as personal Savior and to live for Christ. Graham has been an adviser to many American presidents and according to Gallup Polls is regularly listed as one of the "Ten Most Admired Men in the World
In 1934, at age 16, Graham made a personal commitment to Christ during a revival meeting conducted by Mordecai Ham. He graduated from the Florida Bible Institute, now Trinity College of Florida and was ordained in 1939 by a church in the Southern Baptist Convention. Later in 1943, he graduated from Wheaton College, pastored the First Baptist Church in Western Springs, Illinois, and then joined Youth for Christ.
In 1950 Graham founded the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which later relocated in 2003 to Charlotte, North Carolina. Billy Graham has authored more than 26 books, which have been translated into several languages.