Billy Graham Quotes

All things are lessons that God would have us learn.

Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God.

Nothing exists without a purpose. Every experience you have in this lifetime was written for you to grow into the light you were meant to become.

Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.

God's purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.

When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one reason only: you need to change everything and move forward.

Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.

Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.

When you begin to create the life of your dreams - or maybe better stated, when you begin to live the life that God dreams for you - you take responsibility to prepare for the future.

God will bring people and events into our lives, and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of His life in us.

Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.

The secret of salvation is this: keep sweet, be useful, and keep busy.

Each of us was born to fulfill a divine purpose. As we open our hearts and minds to a new way of being, the purpose of our lives unfolds organically.

Everything God ever asks you to do, even if it's difficult, He asks because He has something great in mind for you.

...the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy.

Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.

To God, our journey is JUST as important as our destination!

The good life begins with Christ and ends with me. I need to stop following me and stop trying to make life all about me.

There is a immense difference between training to do something and trying to do something....Sp iritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.... Following Jesus simply means learning from him how to arrange my life around activities that enable me to live in the fruit of the Spirit

In the university of God, however brilliant you may be, you will not be given double promotion. You must take every course, because each course serves a purpose.

Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is the child of God.

The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us.

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

God isn't trying to make our lives easier; He wants to make them more meaningful.

The most we can get out of life is its discipline for ourselves, and its usefulness for others.