Billy Graham Quotes

I can only see what's in front of me, but God can see what's behind, what's ahead of me, what's beside me, and it just makes it so much easier to release control, cuz at the end of the day, if He brought me to it, He's gonna have to bring me through it.

The God who guides the stars, unhasting and unresting, will as assuredly fulfill what He has promised.

What if we truly believed that there is a beneficent order to things, a force that's holding things together without our conscious control? What if we could see, in our daily lives, the working of that force? What if we believed it loved us somehow and cared for us, and protected us? What if we believed we could afford to relax?

You don’t need to seek opportunity. All you have to do is seek God. And if you seek God, opportunity will seek you.

My Faith is larger than the Hills— So when the Hills decay— My Faith must take the Purple Wheel To show the Sun the way— 'Tis first He steps upon the Vane— And then — upon the Hill— And then abroad the World He go To do His Golden Will— And if His Yellow feet should miss— The Bird would not arise— The Flowers would slumber on their Stems— No Bells have Paradise— How dare I, therefore, stint a faith On which so vast depends— Lest Firmament should fail for me— The Rivet in the Bands

My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.

God knows better than we do what we need.

Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I'm conjuring up my own concoction and trying.

I don't know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future.

We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.

Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.

God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.

Let’s not be afraid to look at everything that has brought us to where we are now and trust that we will soon see in it the guiding hand of a loving God.

I just want to believe in a higher power. That's a good way to live.

If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.

I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,- what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time.

When you keep God in first place, He will take you to places you've never dreamed of

Besides that, I believe one thing: there is a Lord God! And this Lord God creates the peoples.

Blessings can come in a number of ways. The Lord doesn't give you what you want, the Lord gives you what you need.

There is a Ruler above, and His Providence guides all things. He is our Friend and has plenty of work for all His people to do. It is such a blessing and a privilege to be led into His work instead of into the service of the hard taskmasters - the Devil and sin.

We embrace the hand we've been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.

When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

Just because I don't understand god's plans does not mean that he is not with me.