Billy Graham Quotes

Humanity was created in the image of God; our love is a reflection of his.

Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.

God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.

God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.

The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation to Him, the right relation to one another will follow inevitably).

What's at the heart of my faith is a belief that there's a creator. That we're all children of the same God. And that, fundamentally, the relationship you have with your spouse is important and eternal.

Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.

A God who draws near out of love, the Holy Father continued, walks with His people, and this walk comes to an unimaginable point. We could never have imagined that the same Lord would become one of us and walk with us, be present with us, present in His Church, present in the Eucharist, present in His Word, present in the poor, He is present, walking with us. And this is closeness: the shepherd close to his flock, close to his sheep, whom he knows, one by one.

We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.

What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.

Cherish your family connections. They are one of God's greatest ways of demonstrating his love and fellowship.

For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we think of Him as something outside ourselves, or capricious, or judgmental. But God is love and He dwells within us. We are created in His image, or mind, which means that we are extensions of His love, or Sons and Daughters of God.

If I'm going to be in the right relationship with God, I should treat the things he has made in the same way he treats them.

Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star.

When you are wired to God in a unique way, nothing can separate you from the love of God

If God did not love us, we could not love him. And Sufis are those who have realized this love.

Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.

And the purpose of our creation, in which all our subsidiary purposes fit, is to be in a personal relationship to God, in communion with him, in love, by choice, the creature before the Creator.

There's not a person on earth that God doesn't love, but God wants us to learn to love him back.

To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.

I fly to Paris and discover how to make love to God.

It's an incredible mystery of God's love that the more you know how deeply you are loved, the more you will see how deeply your sisters and your brothers in the human family are loved.

Creating the human race in His own image and continually keeping it in being, God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation... of love and communion. Love is therefore the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being.

When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.

What does it mean to be human? It means we are created in the image of God for the glorious reality of being in permanent fellowship with Him.