Billy Graham Quotes

The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.

Never base your faith on your feelings. Base it on God's Word.

I believe that the interior life is the same for all of us. And because they're steeped in faith, Irish-American Catholics are a people who have a language for the examined life.

As I got older, I got closer to my faith and I got closer to Jesus, reading the Bible and living my life under God.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

I just want to grow spiritually with the Lord. I'm keeping strong at it, just trying to make my walk with faith a little better.

I am just trying to get biblically stronger.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

When you're reading the Word of God, you need to let it soak in and let God speak to your heart and let the Holy Spirit work.

The goal for me is to stand up for the word of God which is so important to me. It means more to me than what I have.

I am growing and understanding more of who God is in my life and how I am to minister.

When I put God first, God takes care of me and energizes me to do what really needs to be done.

If your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.

I prayed for Faith, and thought that some day Faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But Faith did not seem to come. One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, 'Now Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God'. I had closed my Bible, and prayed for Faith. I now opened my Bible, and began to study, and Faith has been growing ever since.

The Scripture says, "This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it" [Psalm 118:24].Glory days are days that can happen right now. The key is understanding some basic principles that don't just apply to any one season of life but transcend all seasons of life - not allowing our circumstances to define our outlook on life, but allowing what God's Word says about life to define that outlook.

Faith is not like bottled water but like rain. Its destiny is not just to be kept and held but to make something visible grow.

If we spend enough time with God, He'll either make us strong enough that problems won't bother us, or He'll show us what to do about them.

Testimony requires the nurturing by the prayer of faith, the hungering for the word of God in the scriptures, and the obedience to the truth.

A key to improved prayer is to learn to ask the right questions. Consider changing from asking for the things you want to honestly seeking what He wants for you. Then as you learn His will, pray that you will be led to have the strength to fulfill it.

Let no day slip over without some comfort received from the mouth of God.

What we need as Christians is to be able to feed ourselves. How many there are who sit helpless and listless, with open mouths, hungry for spiritual things, and the minister has to try to feed them, while the Bible is a feast prepared, into which they never venture.