The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life’s basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.

— Billy Graham

Billy Graham Quotes

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

— Billy Graham
Hard Work Inspirational for Work Morality Personal Responsibility

The only place we can find a clear, unmistakable message is in the Word of God, which we call the Bible.

— Billy Graham

If people are kicking you in the behind, at least you’re in front of them.

— Billy Graham

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

— Billy Graham

The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest. If the home deteriorates, civilization will crumble and fall.

— Billy Graham

Some of the greatest values that have influenced me through the years are those that I learned as a boy growing up on the farm. I remember mostly the love in our family, but I also remember the discipline. Then there was the work; we all had to work.

— Billy Graham

I never imagined anybody would ever come out to hear me preach. I’m just a country dairy farmer from North Carolina.

— Billy Graham
Country

The thing that I remember the most in my childhood was the love of family and the discipline in the family. My father and mother both were disciplinarians, and they didn’t mind using the rod. Maybe because I was the oldest child I always felt I got much more of it than anybody else.

— Billy Graham

I know God is in charge. Not me, I’m nothing. I wouldn’t be anything except for the power of the spirit of God.

— Billy Graham
Faith

I received Christ into my heart and my life began to change. But it was a gradual change. And I didn’t see any flashing bulbs. I didn’t hear any thunder. There was no great emotional experience. It was just saying: Yes, Lord Jesus, I want you to be the lord of my life.

— Billy Graham

I’d grown up in a Presbyterian church, but I really didn’t know Christ personally in my heart. I knew him, but I didn’t know him. And there’s a difference between an intellectual faith and a personal, heart faith in which I opened my heart to him and let him rule my life.

— Billy Graham

Jesus Christ is the greatest man in the history of the world. And to me, he’s the greatest person in the history of mankind and the universe. We can’t prove it, I can’t put it in a test tube or in an astronomical formula, but by faith I believe it because the Bible teaches it.

— Billy Graham

I will never do anything in my entire life except preach the Gospel.

— Billy Graham

I’m glad to know that we do have political leaders that believe in God, and that has been true from the days of George Washington.

— Billy Graham

I think we should love sinners, and welcome them, and open our arms to them, and then we don’t totally accept them into our fellowship as believers and as Christians until they have repented their sins and changed their way of living.

— Billy Graham

I have never targeted Muslims. I have never targeted Jews. I believe that we should declare the fact that God loves you, God’s willing to forgive you, God can change you, and Christ and his kingdom is open to anybody who repents and by faith receives him as lord and savior.

— Billy Graham

I have many friends that don’t claim to be followers of Christ. As far as day-to-day friendship and being together at various functions, I don’t think that there should be any difference at all.

— Billy Graham

I remember the first sermon I ever preached. I had four sermons. I preached them, all four in ten minutes. And that was the beginning, in a place called Bostwick, Florida, in northern Florida, in a little tiny church, and on a cold night, about 40 people. And I was so nervous.

— Billy Graham

I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.

— Billy Graham

I’m the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour.

— Billy Graham
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