Billy Graham: Sincerity in Evangelism

Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on March 27, 2009

“Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything—including the Christian plan of salvation.”
-Billy Graham
(Texas Monthly, March 1978

Billy Graham: We Punched Them with the Gospel

Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on March 25, 2009

“We used every modern means to reach the ear of the unconverted … and then punched them straight between the eyes with the Gospel.”
-Billy Graham
(Texas Monthly, March 1978)

Billy Graham on the End of his Ministry

Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on March 23, 2009

“I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and women God has raised through the centuries to build Christ’s church and to take the gospel everywhere.”
-Billy Graham
(Billy Graham: God’s Ambassador)

Billy Graham on Your Purpose

Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on March 19, 2009

“Have you ever wondered why God put you on earth, what is the purpose and meaning of life? It is to know him and to know his love.”
-Billy Graham
(Billy Graham: God’s Ambassador)

Billy Graham’s Dating Rules

Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on March 17, 2009

“My parents never once told me to be in at a certain time when I went out on a Friday or Saturday night date. I knew that I had to be up by three in the morning and if I stayed out past midnight I would get only a couple hours of sleep.”
-Billy Graham
(Just As I Am)

Billy Graham’s Purpose

Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on March 12, 2009

“My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ.”
-Billy Graham
(Billy Graham: God’s Ambassador)

Billy Graham on Bono’s Social Crusading

Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on February 24, 2009

“Few people of our day are more committed to using their celebrity for the cause of the poor around the world than my friend Bono.”
-Billy Graham
(endorsement for the book On the Move, which features Bono’s speech at the 2006 National Prayer Breakfast)

Billy Graham on Evangelism

Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on February 14, 2009

“I have had the privilege of preaching the gospel on every continent in most of the countries of the world. And I have found that when I present the simple message of the gospel of Jesus Christ, with authority, quoting from the very Word of God—he takes that message and drives it supernaturally into the human heart.”
-Billy Graham
(Billy Graham: God’s Ambassador)

Billy Graham on Marriage

Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on February 11, 2009

“Ruth and I don’t have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. In a perfect marriage, everything is always the finest and best imaginable; like a Greek statue, the proportions are exact and the finish is unblemished. Who knows any human beings like that? For a married couple to expect perfection in each other is unrealistic. We learned that even before we married.

“The unblemished ideal exists only in ‘happily ever after’ fairy tales. I think that there is some merit to a description I once read of a married couple as ‘happily incompatible.’ Ruth likes to say, ‘If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.’ The sooner we accept that as a fact of life, the better we will be able to adjust to each other and enjoy togetherness.”
-Billy Graham
(Ruth Bell Graham memorial site)

Billy Graham on Politics

Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on February 8, 2009

“People say, are you a Republican? I say I’m like the man in the Civil War who had a gray coat and blue trousers—and was shot at by both sides.”
-Billy Graham
(Baptist Press, Aug. 29, 2005)