Billy Graham Quotes

Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

There is the type of man who gives his life to earn the pleasure of Allah...

God gave Himself to you: give yourself to God.

I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.

Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

When we work for Christ out of obligation, it feels like work. But when we truly love Christ, our work is a manifestation of that love, and it feels like love.

If the life we live in this world is wholly for Christ, it is a life of daily surrender.

The blood that poured from Christ's wounds bought your salvation. If you want to truly value what He did, think of Him hanging on that cross just for you. With that thought in your mind, consider how you should live. He gave Himself freely for you; are you giving yourself fully to Him?

Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.

I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it.

Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment.

Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'

If any want to become my followers," Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No one can be forced, no one can be expected to follow him. ... "If any want to follow me, they must deny themselves ... and take up their cross.

When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.

Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.

People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. Can that be called a sacrifice which is simply paid back as a small part of a great debt owing to our God, which we can never repay? All these are nothing when compared with the glory which shall be revealed in and for us. I never made a sacrifice.

I'm a Mormon, but I share your faith in the atonement of the savior, Jesus Christ. In my faith, we have a guy who gave his life for what he believed in. You don't have to believe it; I'm not asking you to. I'm asking you, "What is it that you believe? Are you willing to give your life?"

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.

If I had a thousand pounds, China should have it. If I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him?

Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us.

To abandon all, to strip one's self of all, in order to seek and follow Jesus Christ naked to Bethlehem where He was born, naked to the hall where He was scourged, and naked to Calvary where He died on the cross, is so great a mystery that neither the thing nor the knowledge of it, is given to any but through faith in the Son of God.

A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose whole comportment and whose activity have their root in the sentiment of gratitude.

God will rule the lives of all those who will surrender themselves without reservation to Him.

We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.