Billy Graham quotes

“I just want to lobby for God.”

— Billy Graham

“It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.”

— Billy Graham

“When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.”

— Billy Graham

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

— 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'm not an analyzer. I've got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don't analyze people.”

— Billy Graham

“I'm not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.”

— 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

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

— Billy Graham

“I don't have many sad days.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

“I don't think I get angry.”

— Billy Graham

“I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.”

— Billy Graham

“I've spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.”

— Billy Graham

“People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.”

— Billy Graham

“There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.”

— Billy Graham

“A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.”

— Billy Graham

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

— Billy Graham

“I am not a televangelist.”

— Billy Graham

“I don't think there is a single social issue I haven't spoken on.”

— Billy Graham

“I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.”

— Billy Graham

“It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.”

— Billy Graham

“Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians.”

— Billy Graham

“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

“The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.”

— Billy Graham

“We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.”

— 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

“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