Billy Graham Quotes

You can receive Christ into your heart, and he can bring joy, and a thrill, and glory such as you have never known - if you will give your life to him.

There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.

A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

We all have that power to have a soul that magnifies God.

It is labor that keeps the strong man strong. And spiritual labor, toil and burden-bearing, is what will give strength to the church of Christ.

I fight demons.

God has a way of helping you to move through suffering and actually become stronger.

God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.

Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

Today on planet Earth, may you experience the wonder and beauty of yourself as Abba’s Child and temple of the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ

From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus.

Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

The Christian is strong or weak depending upon how closely he has cultivated the knowledge of God.

Let me follow in Thy footsteps, O Jesus ! I would imitate Thee, but cannot without the aid of Thy grace! O humble and lowly Saviour, grant me the knowledge of the true Christian, and that I may willingly despise myself; let me learn the lesson so incomprehensible to the mind of man, that I must die to myself by an abandonment that shall produce true humility.

We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus.

Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.

Consequently, Christian meditation is entirely trinitarian and at the same time entirely human. In order to find God, no one need reject being human personally or socially, but in order to find God all must see the world and themselves in the Holy Spirit as they are in God's sight.

No one in this earthly prison of the body has sufficient strength of his own to press forward with a due degree of watchfulness, and the great majority [of Christians] are kept down with such great weakness that they stagger and halt and even creep on the ground, and so make very slight advances.

He is the way, the truth, and the light, and no one can come back into the presence of our Father in heaven except through him. Christ is God the Son and possesses every virtue in its perfection. Therefore, the only measure of true greatness is how close a man can become like Jesus. That man is greatest who is most like Christ, and those who love him most will be most like him.