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
We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully.
All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.
I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial and misunderstood.... As a minister, I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.
It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The gospel did not come into being because men believed it...The fact always precedes the faith.
My calling is to preach the love of God and the forgiveness of God and the fact that he does forgive us.
Sex is front-page copy everywhere. [But] nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.
Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman's body is very beautiful.
The fact is, we cannot truly face life until we have learned to face the fact that it will be taken away from us.
Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.
The only thing I could say for sure is that hell means separation from God. We are separated from his light, from his fellowship. That is going to be hell.
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.
I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.
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.
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.