Quotes by Billy Graham

About Billy Graham:

William Franklin 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.
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I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I'm sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

Billy Graham

I first met Bev Shea while in Chicago when he was on Moody Radio. As a young man starting my ministry, I asked Bev if he would join me. He said yes, and for over 60 years we had the privilege of ministering together across the country and around the ...

Billy Graham

Evangelicals can't be closely identified with any particular party or person. We have to stand in the middle, to preach to all the people, right and left.

Billy Graham

I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.

Billy Graham

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them.

Billy Graham

I can't explain 9/11, except the evil of man.

Billy Graham

Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.

Billy Graham

A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.

Billy Graham

One of the things I miss most is that I can no longer read, due to age-related macular degeneration. I get regular injections for this, and thankfully these seem to have arrested its progress, but it's still very difficult for me to read. That means ...

Billy Graham

I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all.

Billy Graham

If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.

Billy Graham

I don't think I get angry.

Billy Graham

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

Billy Graham

Almost everybody will listen to you when you tell your own story.

Billy Graham

Christians are not limited to any church.

Billy Graham

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Billy Graham

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

Billy Graham

I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.

Billy Graham

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.

Billy Graham

I don't have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

Billy Graham

The Gospel has never changed.

Billy Graham

Author Bio

  • NameBilly Graham
  • DescriptionAmerican Christian evangelist
  • BornNovember 7, 1918
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionTheologian; Autobiographer; Cleric
  • AwardsKnight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; Gospel Music Hall Of Fame; Templeton Prize; Ronald Reagan Freedom Award