Billy Graham
Billy Graham
William Franklin "Billy" Graham, Jr.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. In his six decades of television, Graham is principally known for hosting the annual Billy Graham Crusades, which he began in 1947, until he concluded in 2005, at the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth7 November 1918
CityCharlotte, NC
CountryUnited States of America
Be sure that your motive in praying is to glorify God.
At great cost to Himself, God has made it possible for each of us to live with Him eternally. Those who reject God's offer of a heavenly home will be assigned to hell.
My calling is to preach the love of God and the forgiveness of God and the fact that he does forgive us.
First of all, you have to meet God with light! I do not believe that any man, that any man can solve the problems of life without Jesus Christ.
I would not want to live in any other period,
Because God is love, He could not completely cast man aside.
We're all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.
... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.
... some day you will have to give an account for every penny you spent.
It's a paradise that we are going to go into, because to be in the presence of God itself will be a paradise.
All homosexuals should be castrated.
Can you see God? You haven't seen him? I've never seen the wind. I see the effects of the wind, but I've never seen the wind. There's a mystery to it.
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.
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.