Billy Graham Quotes

The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock.

Let us build our lives of faith on the rock who is Christ.

We cannot live as Christians separate from the rock who is Christ. He gives us strength and stability, but also joy and serenity.

To depend partly upon Christ's righteousness and partly upon our own, is to set one foot upon a. rock and another in the quicksands. Christ will either be to us all in all in point of righteousness, or else nothing at all.

Can we hush the fears that so easily and frequently beset us in our contemporary world? The answer to this question is an unequivocal yes. Three basic principles are central to receiving this blessing in our lives: (1) look to Christ, (2) build upon the foundation of Christ, and (3) press forward with faith in Christ.

There is a difference between a convert who is built on the rock of Christ through the Book of Mormon and stays hold of that iron rod, and one who is not.

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.

I build on Christ, the rock of ages; on his sure mercies described in his word, and on his promises, all which I know are yea and amen.

I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation.

Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.

We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind--that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is not just a distant historical figure but actually Christ for you and me.

The first care of every Christian ought to be to lay aside all reliance on works, and strengthen his faith alone more and more, and by it grow in the knowledge, not of works, but of Christ Jesus, who has suffered and risen again for him.

A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

The Spirit must therefore first take hold of us before we can live in Christ, and when he doth so, then we are enabled to exert that vital act of faith, whereby we receive Christ.

Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.

He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.

The great truths of Christianity do not belong to the professional theologians alone, but to every person who calls upon the name of Christ.

Life has a way of testing our anchors and tempting us to drift. Nevertheless, if our anchors are correctly placed in the rock of our Redeemer, they will hold—no matter the force of the wind, the strength of the tide, or the height of the waves.

... if, to me, to live is Christ (Phil. 1:21), truly my words ought to be about Christ, my every thought and deed ought to depend upon His commandments, and my soul to be fashioned after His.

Trust in the power of Christ’s Cross! Receive his reconciling grace and share it!

We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much.

My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away... the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances His disciples in asserting that He was God.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.