“Where students talk about being independent and on their own, you will find them practicing the most rigid conformity in dress, in speech, in moral attitudes, and in thinking. Sometimes they follow fashion at the expense of integrity. They dread to be alone. They do not want to stand out or be different. They want to conform. After they graduate from college, many of these young people want nothing more than a good job with a big firm, and a home somewhere in suburbia. But they don’t find security.”
―
Billy Graham
“A terrifying spiritual and moral tide of evil has already loosed us from our spiritual moorings. Monstrous new ideas that could easily destroy our freedoms are rushing into the vacuum.”
―
Billy Graham
“We have not yet learned that we are more powerful on our knees than behind the most powerful weapons that can be developed.”
―
Billy Graham
“Prayer is more than a plea, it is a place where we must spend time if we are to learn its power.”
―
Billy Graham
“Pentecost was the day of power of the Holy Spirit. It was the day the Christian church was born.”
―
Billy Graham
“Parents do overindulge their children, giving them a profusion of material things . . . without the stabilizing effects of earning one’s way, of making decisions, of sweating hard to attain some kind of goal, young people are grievously handicapped.”
―
Billy Graham
“I’m afraid most Bibles remain unopened and unread. Don’t let this be true of yours!”
―
Billy Graham
“In our spiritual pilgrimage we see sins which mar our relationship with God, but beneath it is a commitment which seeks to move beyond to a higher life, based on wholehearted surrender to God.”
―
Billy Graham
“The devil doesn’t need to invent any new temptations; the old ones work as well as they ever have.”
―
Billy Graham
“Make the Bible part of your daily life, and ask God to engrave its truths on your soul.”
―
Billy Graham
“In searching for ways to bridge the generation gap, there is no doubt that we, as parents, will have to practice what we preach, by striving more to bring our conduct into line with our code of beliefs.”
―
Billy Graham
“The greatest waste in all of our earth is our waste of the time God has given us each day.”
―
Billy Graham
“Sickness is deep within the soul of our society—and that has always been God’s exclusive territory.”
―
Billy Graham
“The empire of angels is as vast as God’s creation. If you believe the Bible, you will believe in their ministry.”
―
Billy Graham
“It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies.”
―
Billy Graham
