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
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before the horse. They are teaching purity of motives, desires, and actions to old, deceitful hearts! No wonder we have ended up such moral failures, in spite of our vaunted knowledge and psychological approaches.
Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.
Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!
When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, "Ruth and I are happily incompatible."
Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and his will first in everything you do.
Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.
Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.
One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper was not hostile; he was not opposed to them, but his inn was crowded; his hands were full; his mind was preoccupied. This is the answer that millions are giving today. Like a Bethlehem innkeeper, they cannot find room for Christ. All the accommodations in their hearts are already taken up by other crowding interests. Their response is not atheism. It is not defiance. It is preoccupation and the feeling of being able to get on reasonably well without Christianity.
Prayer is crucial in evangelism: Only God can change the heart of someone who is in rebellion against Him. No matter how logical our arguments or how fervent our appeals, our words will accomplish nothing unless God's Spirit prepares the way.
There is no joy in life like the joy of sharing.
It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.
Sin was conquered on the cross. Christ's death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph.