Billy Graham Quotes

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will.

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.

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.

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo.

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

Lucifer protests he was never to blame for inducing anyone to sin, and that he’s never had an interest in owning souls: 'They die, and they come here – having transgressed against what they believed to be right – and expect us to fulfill their desire for pain and retribution. I don’t make them come here… I need no souls. And how can anyone own a soul? No, they belong to themselves. They just hate to have to face up to it.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

So many laws argues so many sins.

It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

Men are free to decide their own moral choices, but they are also under the necessity to account to God for those choices.

It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.

Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.

I know what sin is.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.