Latest Billy Graham Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm not a righteous man. People put me up on a pedestal that I don't belong in my personal life. And they think that I'm better than I am. I'm not the good man that people think I am. Newspapers and magazines and television have made me out to be a saint. I'm not. I'm not a Mother Teresa. And I feel that very much.

  Billy Graham

  Mother, Men, Thinking

  "Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.deceptioninthechurch.com. January 2, 2000.

• I will never do anything in my entire life except preach the Gospel.

  Billy Graham

  "Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.deceptioninthechurch.com. January 2, 2000.

• I know God is in charge. Not me, I'm nothing. I wouldn't be anything except for the power of the spirit of God.

  Billy Graham

  Spirit, Knowing God, Spirit Of God

  "Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.deceptioninthechurch.com. January 2, 2000.

• I received Christ into my heart and my life began to change. But it was a gradual change. And I didn't see any flashing bulbs. I didn't hear any thunder. There was no great emotional experience. It was just saying: Yes, Lord Jesus, I want you to be the lord of my life.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Heart, Emotional

  "Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.deceptioninthechurch.com. January 2, 2000.

• I'd grown up in a Presbyterian church, but I really didn't know Christ personally in my heart. I knew him, but I didn't know him. And there's a difference between an intellectual faith and a personal, heart faith in which I opened my heart to him and let him rule my life.

  Billy Graham

  Heart, Differences, Intellectual

  "Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.deceptioninthechurch.com. January 2, 2000.

• I have never targeted Muslims. I have never targeted Jews. I believe that we should declare the fact that God loves you, God's willing to forgive you, God can change you, and Christ and his kingdom is open to anybody who repents and by faith receives him as lord and savior.

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  Believe, Love You, Forgiving

  "Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.deceptioninthechurch.com. January 2, 2000.

• I have many friends that don't claim to be followers of Christ. As far as day-to-day friendship and being together at various functions, I don't think that there should be any difference at all.

  Billy Graham

  Thinking, Differences, Together

  "Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.deceptioninthechurch.com. January 2, 2000.

• I think we should love sinners, and welcome them, and open our arms to them, and then we don't totally accept them into our fellowship as believers and as Christians until they have repented their sins and changed their way of living.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.deceptioninthechurch.com

• I'm against divorce. I think the Bible teaches that divorce is wrong, but at the same time, I also believe that the Bible has a leave way; Jesus said that a person should not be divorced and should not be separated. But in the Old Testament, men could have more than one wife under certain circumstances. And there must be reasons for that. And I think that some of them are valid reasons.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Believe, Divorce

  Source: www.deceptioninthechurch.com

• I think most presidents are amazed at the overwhelming responsibility they have when they enter office and the tremendous amount of work there is. See, a modern president has far more responsibility than a president years ago. And if I were rewriting the Constitution, I would suggest a president be more like a monarch and then have a prime minister under him.

  Billy Graham

  Responsibility, Thinking, Years

  "Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.deceptioninthechurch.com. January 2, 2000.

• Jesus Christ is the greatest man in the history of the world. And to me, he's the greatest person in the history of mankind and the universe. We can't prove it, I can't put it in a test tube or in an astronomical formula, but by faith I believe it because the Bible teaches it.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Believe, Men

  "Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.deceptioninthechurch.com. January 2, 2000.

• I'm glad to know that we do have political leaders that believe in God, and that has been true from the days of George Washington.

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  Believe, Leader, Political

  "Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.deceptioninthechurch.com. January 2, 2000.

• In my family we got up in the mornings around three o'clock and went out to the barns to bring the cows in and milk. In high school I milked about twenty cows every morning and about twenty in the afternoon when I got home. I have wonderful memories from those early days when my parent's influence was so strong.

  Billy Graham

  Strong, Morning, Memories

  Source: www.cmstory.org

• Some of the greatest values that have influenced me through the years are those that I learned as a boy growing up on the farm. I remember mostly the love in our family, but I also remember the discipline. Then there was the work; we all had to work.

  Billy Graham

  Growing Up, Boys, Years

  Source: www.cmstory.org

• I never imagined anybody would ever come out to hear me preach. I'm just a country dairy farmer from North Carolina.

  Billy Graham

  Country, North Carolina, Dairy

  Source: www.cmstory.org

• After I graduated from high school, one of the former workers on our farm asked if I would be willing to join him in selling Fuller brushes through the summer. It seemed like a perfect way to make some money for college. And being away from my parents and learning to make my own way gave me self confidence.

  Billy Graham

  Summer, School, Self Confidence

  Source: www.cmstory.org

• The thing that I remember the most in my childhood was the love of family and the discipline in the family. My father and mother both were disciplinarians, and they didn't mind using the rod. Maybe because I was the oldest child I always felt I got much more of it than anybody else.

  Billy Graham

  Mother, Children, Father

  Source: www.cmstory.org

• I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.

  Billy Graham

  Thinking, Study, Praying

  "Exclusive! Rev. Billy Graham Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. June 27, 2005.

• I remember the first sermon I ever preached. I had four sermons. I preached them, all four in ten minutes. And that was the beginning, in a place called Bostwick, Florida, in northern Florida, in a little tiny church, and on a cold night, about 40 people. And I was so nervous.

  Billy Graham

  Night, Florida, People

• Everybody is a sinner before God. And I think we magnify it today because we have television, and we have so many other technologies that make what happens in some other part of the world in our living room.

  Billy Graham

  Technology, Thinking, Television

  "Exclusive! Rev. Billy Graham Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. June 27, 2005.

• I started out as the president of a small college in Minnesota in 1947. And I had five years of experience at the college. Then we went to Los Angeles. And the press got to what we were doing. And I went to Boston, which is my next series of meetings. That was in 1950.

  Billy Graham

  College, Boston, Years

• I want people to remember me that I was faithful, faithful to the gospel, faithful to the call that God gave me. And when I get to heaven, I'm going to ask him why he called me, because I was much used to milking cows and working on the farm than I was preaching.

  Billy Graham

  People, Heaven, Faithful

  "Exclusive! Rev. Billy Graham Talks with Sean Hannity". "Hannity & Colmes", www.foxnews.com. June 27, 2005.