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
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.
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.
I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.
The only people here are the quick and the dead
We believe that in your province you have granted a second term to our president, George W. Bush, and our vice president, Richard Cheney,
The people of the United States want peace. The people of China want peace. The people of the Soviet Union want peace. Why can't we have peace?
Regardless of what society says, we can't go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.
Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology - absolutely.
Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.
Evangelism is when the Gospel, which is good news, is preached or presented to all people.
I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.
The human heart is the same the world over.
Oral Roberts was a man of God and a great friend in ministry. I loved him as a brother.
I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.