Billy Graham Quotes

Quotes from one of the most influential spiritual leaders to ever walk the face of this Earth. His legacy of bringing lost souls into the arms of our Savior, Jesus Christ is deeply inspiring and has changed the world forever.

“Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.”
—Martin Luther King Jr.

“Billy Graham’s contribution to the well-being of mankind is literally immeasurable. Millions of lives across the globe have been enriched because of his good work.”
—Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan

“My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which I believe comes from knowing Christ.”
—Billy Graham

“He was a man who had a purpose, a dedication in life; he knew where he was going. He wanted to please God more than any man I’d ever met.”
—Ruth Bell Graham

“… When I was president, I was thankful that Billy came to the White House to visit. He has no political agenda. He has an agenda of the Lord.”
—Former U.S. President George W. Bush

“Billy Graham has been an inspiration in my life. It is my firm belief that no one can be president without a belief in God, without understanding the power of prayer, without faith. And Billy Graham helped me understand that. … I thank God for bringing Billy Graham into the lives of my family. He gave us great strength, and through him we better know
God’s Son, Jesus Christ.”
—Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush

“Hearing from you who has accomplished so much good for so many people around the world is greatly appreciated. The President greatly admired you and what you are doing.”
—Robert Kennedy, in a handwritten note to Billy Graham after the funeral for President Kennedy

“Billy Graham’s contribution to the well-being of mankind is literally immeasurable. Millions of lives across the globe have been enriched because of his good work. The world is a better place because of Billy Graham.”
—Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom

“When I was a small boy, about 12 years old, Billy Graham came to Little Rock, Arkansas, to preach a Crusade. Our town was torn apart by racial conflict. Our high schools were closed, and there were those who asked Billy Graham to segregate his audience. … I’ll never forget what he said—that if he had to speak the Word of God to a segregated audience, he would violate his ministry, and he would not do it. And at the most intense time in the modern history of my state, everybody caved, and blacks and whites together poured into the football stadium. And when the invitation was given, they poured down the aisles together, and they forgot they were supposed to be mad at each other and angry at each other, that one was supposed to consider the other somehow less than equal. He never preached a word about integrating the schools. He preached the Word of God, and he lived it by the power of his example.”
—Former U.S. President Bill Clinton

“When I arrived at the airport, Mr. Graham himself was waiting for me. I expected to be chauffeured in a Rolls Royce or at least a Mercedes, but we got in his Oldsmobile and he drove it himself. I couldn’t believe he came to the airport driving his own car. When we approached his home, I thought he would live on a thousand-acre farm, and we drove up to this house made of logs. No mansion with crystal chandeliers and gold carpets, it was the kind of a house a man of God would live in. I look up to him.”
—Muhammad Ali

“[Billy Graham] enabled people to forge links with one another and so multiply their ability to change people’s lives through Christ. The impact of these links and connections is exponential, as is the impact of a single life changed through Christ: it connects and reconnects and like a hub spreads out in spokes. This is part of the legacy that Billy Graham will leave, the inspiration that came through a life that touched so many thousands of people.”
—Ravi Zacharias, apologist, evangelist and award-winning author

His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things:
enter into the joy of your lord.
Matthew 25:23

I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work
which thou gavest me to do.
John 17:4