Billy Graham Quotes

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.

I needed a lot of the good things that church provided. But as I grew older, it became increasingly hard for me to rationalize the importance of church in my life with the beliefs that it required that were at odds with modern science.

The version I got of Christianity was quite confusing to me, even as a child, because there were certain things that didn't add up.

I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel.

The unbelieving mind would not be convinced by any proof, and the worshiping heart needs none.

The region of the senses is the unbelieving part of the human soul.

What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish into the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will. Yet Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would wither in his breast. Prayer is the wind that fills his sail. Else drift with witless tides. And sometimes, by God's grace, a prayer is heard.

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me? It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to exist without a religion than without a heart.

I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.

Can I believe in that God too?

To believe in God is to give your heart to God.

The proofs that God does not exist are very strong, but in lots of people they are not as strong as the feeling that He does.

We know that there must be a purpose out there. But for us to actually live according to that purpose, we need to first look for it. To actually look for it, you need to start believing in something you can't see yet. That is faith. Faith is...Full Assurance In The Heart.

Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.

Where there is no faith, devils are a necessity.

We cannot know what faith is if we have never had it, and we cannot obtain it as long as we deny it. Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.

Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.

Now it’s high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus now. What’s left to say? Suspect too much sweet-talk but never close your mind. It was a fortunate wind that blew me here. I leave half-ready to believe that a crippled trust might walk and the half-true rhyme is love.

In the prayer of faith there is a divine science; it is a science that everyone who would make his lifework a success must understand.