Billy Graham

"God proved His love on the cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'"

- Billy Graham

"The cross shows the seriousness of our sin—but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God."

- Billy Graham

"When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, ‘Ruth and I are happily incompatible.’"

- Billy Graham

"Without Ruth’s partnership and encouragement over the years, my own work would have been impossible. We were called by God as a team."

- Billy Graham

"True love is an act of the will – a conscious decision to do what is best for the other person instead of ourselves."

- Billy Graham

"When Christ’s love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run."

- Billy Graham

"I suppose the most misused word in all the English language is the word 'Love.' But, you know, the whole Bible is a love story; God’s love affair with the human race."

- Billy Graham

"The greatest vision of sin that a person can ever receive is to look at the cross."

- Billy Graham

"In the morning, prayer is the key that opens to us the treasures of God's mercies and blessings; in the evening, it is the key that shuts us up under his protection and safeguard."

- Billy Graham

"You cannot pray for someone and hate them at the same time."

- Billy Graham

"The cross is the suffering love of God bearing the guilt of man’s sin, which alone is able to melt the sinner’s heart and bring him to repentance for salvation."

- Billy Graham

"I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right."

- Billy Graham

"Sin was conquered on the cross. [Christ’s] death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph!"

- Billy Graham

"Old age comes with its challenges and limitations, but despite them, we can have fulfilling latter years."

- Billy Graham

"Once you have been to the cross, you will never be the same."

- Billy Graham

"Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ."

- Billy Graham

"Every human being is under construction from conception to death."

- Billy Graham

"When you truly love someone, you want to please and honor them by the way you act. How you treat someone shows whether or not you really care about them."

- Billy Graham

"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened."

- Billy Graham

"To take up your cross means to associate yourself with Christ and to share His rejection. It means you take a stand for Christ even though people make fun of you, persecute you—or even kill you!"

- Billy Graham

"Though the cross repels, it also attracts. It possesses a magnetic quality."

- Billy Graham

"True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency. Make it a habit, and when the need arises you will be in practice."

- Billy Graham

"The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'"

- Billy Graham

"No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply."

- Billy Graham

""We are to pray in times of adversity, lest we become faithless and unbelieving.""

- Billy Graham

"We are to pray in times of adversity, lest we become faithless and unbelieving. We are to pray in times of prosperity, lest we become boastful and proud. We are to pray in times of danger, lest we become fearful and doubting. We are to pray in times of security, lest we become self-sufficient."

- Billy Graham

"The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us."

- Billy Graham

"The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that he might offer up his life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas."

- Billy Graham

"I firmly believe God continues to answer the prayers of His people even after He has taken them to heaven. Never forget that God isn’t bound by time the way we are. We see only the present moment; God sees everything. We see only part of what He is doing; He sees it all."

- Billy Graham

"Angels speak. They appear and reappear. They feel with apt sense of emotion. While Angels may become visible by choice, our eyes are not conducted to see them ordinarily any more than we can see the dimensions of a nuclear field, the structure of atoms, or the electricity that flows through copper wiring."

- Billy Graham

"Believers, look up - take courage. The angels are nearer than you think."

- Billy Graham

"The cross is the only way of salvation. And the cross gives a new purpose to life."

- Billy Graham

"There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three."

- Billy Graham

"It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray."

- Billy Graham

"Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think."

- Billy Graham

"I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right."

- Billy Graham

"God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there."

- Billy Graham

"The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service."

- Billy Graham

"A checkbook is a theological document, it will tell you who and what you worship."

- Billy Graham

"If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life."

- Billy Graham

"Give me five minutes with a person’s checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is."

- Billy Graham

"The very purpose of Christ’s coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas."

- Billy Graham

"Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality."

- Billy Graham

"Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do."

- Billy Graham

"'God is love' means that He tries constantly to block your route to destruction."

- Billy Graham

"God is saying from the cross, 'I love you! I love you! I love you!'"

- Billy Graham

"Scripture makes it clear that our first love is always to be for our Lord."

- Billy Graham

"The mystery of God’s love would not be a mystery if we knew all the answers."

- Billy Graham

"I want you to know tonight one thing: God loves you. No matter how you’ve lived and no matter what the color of your skin; no matter what your racial background, no matter what language you speak – God loves you!"

- Billy Graham

"God’s love is unchangeable; He knows exactly what we are and loves us anyway."

- Billy Graham

"When you pick up the cross of unpopularity, wherever you may be, you will find God’s grace is there, more than sufficient to meet your every need."

- Billy Graham

"We are living in an age of grace, in which God promises that ‘whosoever will’ may come and receive His Son. But this period of grace will not go on indefinitely. We are even now living on borrowed time."

- Billy Graham

"Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God."

- Billy Graham

"The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross."

- Billy Graham

"Christ did not suffer and die to offer cheap grace. Jesus did not willingly go to the cross so we could have an easy life or offer a faith built on easy-believism. As someone said, ‘Salvation is free, but not cheap.’ It cost Jesus His life."

- Billy Graham

""Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.""

- Billy Graham

"Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness."

- Billy Graham

"A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society."

- Billy Graham

"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."

- Billy Graham

"Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent."

- Billy Graham

"The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith."

- Billy Graham

"The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith."

- Billy Graham

"To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees."

- Billy Graham

"God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with."

- Billy Graham

"Take one day at a time. Today, after all, is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."

- Billy Graham

"When Jesus hung on the cross, a great unseen cosmic battle raged in the heavens—and in the end, Christ triumphed over all the forces of evil and death and hell."

- Billy Graham

"Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God."

- Billy Graham

"My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world."

- Billy Graham

"The ground is level at the foot of the cross."

- Billy Graham