Billy Graham
Billy Graham
William Franklin "Billy" Graham, Jr.is an American evangelical Christian evangelist, ordained as a Southern Baptist minister, who rose to celebrity status in 1949 reaching a core constituency of middle-class, moderately conservative Protestants. He held large indoor and outdoor rallies; sermons were broadcast on radio and television, some still being re-broadcast today. In his six decades of television, Graham is principally known for hosting the annual Billy Graham Crusades, which he began in 1947, until he concluded in 2005, at the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth7 November 1918
CityCharlotte, NC
CountryUnited States of America
Be sure that your motive in praying is to glorify God.
The only thing He forgets is our sins.
I only know that when Jesus is with a person, that one can endure the deepest suffering and somehow emerge a better and stronger Christian because of it.
To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.
Those who have suffered make the best comforters.
Much of the philosophy of religious education has been based upon a false premise, and perhaps many have missed the essence of Christian experience, having had religious training take its place.
Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.
Think of working forever at something you love to do, for one you love with all your heart, and never getting tired! We will never know weariness in heaven.
... a true servant of God is someone who helps another succeed.
It (the Bible) has never bowed its head before the discoveries of science.
Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon our shoulder and this brief message will be given: "Come home.
God does not call us to be successful, but to be obedient.
God can use a sensitive Christian to be a rich blessing in the life of one who knows pain and sorrow.
Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.