Billy Graham Quotes

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.

People are so shocked when they find... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church, and I love God, and I love my church.

I'm not only a Christian, but I'm a pastor of a church.

The most important thing to the Christian community is not the environment but evangelism.

Billy Graham isn't about politics - Billy Graham is about God.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.

Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence.

We focus, in some ways, on how to disengage Jesus and the Bible from everything people know about Christianity as a religion.

Personally, I am a church-going Christian. I love my church, my congregation; it's my favorite place to be.

I have a really great relationship with God. I pray. I read the Bible.

Well, I believe in God. I taught Sunday school.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they're not all growing in their faith, they're not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

160 million-plus people call themselves Christians. They go to church once a month at least. That's a lot of people.

I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God... I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

I believe that the preaching of the living word of God is something that Africa hungers for.

Anytime you mention Jesus or faith, people are turned off. I think it scares a lot of people.

Our family was just really passionate about Jesus.

There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.

I am passionate about God, about Jesus, and what His influences do to me.

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.

It was when my children were 5, 3 and 10 months old that I just felt the desperate need to get to know God through the pages of my Bible. And as a result, I started a Bible class in my city for the primary purpose of being in it.

I'm thankful for the ability to share my faith in a lot of different places. It's something that I take as a responsibility and an obligation to handle as best as I can.

The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person.