Billy Graham Quotes

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

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.

Apart from God nothing matters. We think that health matters, that freedom matters, or knowledge or art or civilization. And but for one insistent word they would matter indeed. That word is eternity.

Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!

I will say with Lorenzo de Medici that those who do not hope for another life are always dead to this one.

I believe in life after death.

It wasn't that [he] believed in religion, or a God, or an afterlife. He just knew it was impossible to feel this much love and for it to end.

Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.'

I actually do believe in life after death.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

The purpose of God's creations and of His giving us life is to allow us to have the learning experience necessary for us to come back to Him, to live with Him in eternal life.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life into eternal life, dispelling the transience in it.

Christianity is sustained by the knowledge that the object of man's life on earth is his development as an eternal being. Therefore, none of his expressions of life can be an end in itself, but must serve a higher purpose than the earthly life and happiness of the individual - or even than that of the race.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

You know what, my faith is like this - when I die, I'm going to live with God forever and ever. But I believe He wants us to have a good life here on Earth.

You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless.

Religion is there to say, 'Hey, you don't have to worry - there's an afterlife.'