Billy Graham Quotes

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.

Most of life's actions are within our reach, but decisions take willpower.

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent." "Yes," I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. "But...she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to.

My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment.

There's a lesson in every temptation.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

While early childhood experiences may impel, they do not compel. In the end, evil is a matter of choice.

God and the devil are inherent in each of us. It's our choice to make: you can take the road to good, you can take the road to bad. Well, we have a choice.

Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.

Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot.

I know the difference between right and wrong, and I can tell good from bad. But I also know that the more difficult decisions come when we have to choose between good and better. The toughest calls of all are those we have to make between bad and worse.

Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.

Each decision - to kill, to sign a petition, to write a letter, to make a speech, to attack, to lie, to surrender - was made at some point in somebody's day.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.