Billy Graham Quotes

We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it’s police in a great city or police in an international scale to keep those madmen from taking over the world and robbing the world of its liberties.

If I didn’t have spiritual faith, I would be a pessimist. But I’m an optimist. I’ve read the last page in the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

The only people here are the quick and the dead. (Commenting on New York City traffic)

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? We don’t realise the proliferation of these weapons and the arms race of $400 billion that we’re spending on arms in the world – insanity, madness!

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

They asked her (Ruth Graham) did she ever think about divorce and she said, ‘No, I’ve never thought of divorce in all these 35 years of marriage, but,’ she said, ‘I did think of murder a few times.’

The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fill the soul even in the midst of the most distressing of circumstances and most bitter environment. It is the kind of happiness that grins when things go wrong and […]

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.