Billy Graham Quotes

I grew up as a Christian, and I always think of Jesus as someone right next to us, you know, someone really close, and I never actually saw that onscreen in a way that could be identified.

I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.

If you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you already have the Holy Spirit living within you.

The great distinction of a true Christian is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. How careful should he be, lest anything in his thoughts or feelings would be offensive to the Divine Guest.!

I felt the power of God as I'd never felt it before.

To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.

I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn't personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy Spirit in an effective way, render the Spirit perceptible, if we ourselves aren't close to the Spirit.

O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

Sometimes we can think it would be great to live around the time of Christ in order to be very close to him, but we already are very close to him in the Catholic Church.

To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it; it is not only to try to follow the pattern and example of Christ; it is to be so vitally related to Christ that His life and His power are working in us. It is to be "in Christ," it is for Christ to be in us.

I looked on Jesus and the dove of peace entered my heart. I looked at the dove of peace; and lo...off he went.

The real issue relating to exclusiveness is whether or not the Christian actually has a relationship with God, a presence of God, which non-Christians do not have. Apart from Christian spiritual formation as described here, I believe there is little value in claiming exclusiveness for the Christian way.

All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.

At the heart of the Christian message is God Himself waiting for His redeemed children to push in to conscious awareness of His Presence.

People say that it is so hard to bring Jesus Christ and present him before the lives of men today. Of course it is. It is so hard that it is impossible except by the power of the indwelling Holy Ghost.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ.

Faith is the door to the full inner life of the Church, a life which includes not only access to an authoritative teaching but above all to a deep personal experience which is at once unique and yet shared by the whole Body of Christ, in the Spirit of Christ.

The Holy Spirit is a great worker, not a 'trade unionist.' He is a great worker, and He works in us, always. He does this work of explaining the mystery of Jesus, and of giving us this sense of Christ.

The Holy Spirit is God the evangelist.

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ.

There are times when I draw near enough to touch Him, then I know that He has been there all the time