Billy Graham Quotes

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

So when you say who does Christ die for? He died for the church, okay. I don't think God's death on the cross through Christ was a failure, if you are saying that. I do not believe that anybody he intended to die for is failing in that area.

The cross stands high above the opinions of men and to that cross all opinions must come at last for judgment.

Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.

In the sacrifice which Jesus Christ makes of Himself on the Cross for His bride, the Church... there is entirely revealed that plan which God has imprinted on the humanity of man and woman since their creation.

Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.

Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.

Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles.

[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.

The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.

I have this certain reluctance when it comes to this idea that we are spiritual but not religious and we want Jesus but not the church. Why can't we have both?

In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.

As for me, my charter is Jesus Christ, the inviolable charter is His cross and His death and resurrection, and faith through Him.

At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation.

Christ has no velvet crosses.

If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.

Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.

Weak, feeble and foolish as it may seem to people, the simple story of the Cross is enough for all mankind in every part of the globe.

The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.

The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.

Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.

But Palm Sunday tells us that ... it is the cross that is the true tree of life.

If America is ever going to be saved, it will be through a church flowing both in the message of the cross and the miracle of the resurrection.