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
The human heart is the same the world over.
Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.
Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.
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.
I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.
Evangelism is when the Gospel, which is good news, is preached or presented to all people.
Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.
Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology - absolutely.
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
The one badge of Christian discipleship is not orthodoxy but love.
Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.
New York is definitely ready for the word of God.
My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children.
I'm grateful for the evangelical resurgence we've seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God's doing.