Quotes by Billy Graham

Billy Graham

American Evangelist

Alive from: 1918-

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

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  A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

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  A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.

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  'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

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  A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.

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  A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

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  All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

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  America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.

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  America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.

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  As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

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  As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

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  Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.

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  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.

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  Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.

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  Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas.