America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country.
People have become so empty that they can’t even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling—that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Boredom
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Christians, Christianity
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Golf
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, and the most gripping stories.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Adversity, Opposition
Man has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam’s and Eve’s problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Evil
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Crying, Tears
Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Honesty
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Courage
I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Future, The Future
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Respect, Respectability
Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Religion, Churches
Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Boredom, Bores
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Giving, Charity
America’s founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation’s greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Education
A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerate the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Humor
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.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Christianity
Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Conscience
The most prominent place in hell is reserved for
those who are neutral on the great issues of life.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Risk
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Wealth, Riches
Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Christians, Christianity
The greatest need in the world at this moment is the transformation of human nature.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Humanity
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
—Billy Graham
The word “romance,” according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.”
—Billy Graham
Topics: Excitement
If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Money
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, “I love you.”
—Billy Graham
Topics: Love
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.
—Billy Graham
Topics: Angels
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