Billy Graham

Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful.

When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite 'thank you,' it is the recognition of dependence.

I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.

The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.

I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?

There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul.

I think that hell essentially is separation from God forever. And that is the worst hell that I can think of. But I think people have a hard time believing God is going to allow people to burn in literal fire forever. I think the fire that is mentioned in the Bible is a burning thirst for God that can never be quenched.

When Satan knocks, I just send Christ to the door.

Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.