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.
We've always needed God from the very beginning of this nation but today we need Him especially. We're facing a new kind of enemy. We're involved in a new kind of warfare and we need the help of the Spirit of God. The Bible's words are our hope. . . .
We believe that in your province you have granted a second term to our president, George W. Bush, and our vice president, Richard Cheney,
I'm the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour.
The fact is, we cannot truly face life until we have learned to face the fact that it will be taken away from us.
June Glenn was one of the greatest photographers I ever had the privilege of knowing. He was a warm, personal friend who took hundreds of photographs of me and my family. Ruth and I feel a great sense of loss.
part poet, part preacher, a singer of the human spirit.
People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make them laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling--that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.
I think when a person has been found guilty of rape he should be castrated. That would stop him pretty quick.