Billy Graham Sin Quotes & Sayings

Cannot come to Christ unless the Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin. — Billy Graham

God did not create the strife between races, nor did He intend for it to be that way. Strife between races and ethnic groups comes from sin-and sin resides in the human heart. The Bible says, "What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you?" (James 4:1). When one group or one race claims it is superior to another, pride has taken control-and pride is a sin.Instead, God wants us to learn to accept each other and love each other-and this becomes possible, as we turn our lives over to Christ and allow Him to change us from within. — Billy Graham

You choose sin. You practice sin. — Billy Graham

Galatians 5:21 constitutes the most serious warning to those who may think they can sin that grace may abound. — Billy Graham

We can be convicted of sin - we can pray and confess our sin - we can repent - but the real test is our willingness to obey. — Billy Graham

Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift - the gift that liberates souls from sin's power. — Billy Graham

What stirs God most is not physical suffering but sin. 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. — Billy Graham

The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it does teach that sin shall no longer reign over you. — Billy Graham

A life touched by the Holy Spirit will tolerate sin no longer. — Billy Graham

We have been told by God that if we sin against Him and break His commandments, He will bring judgment upon the world. It is my responsibility and my duty as a minister of the Gospel to [warn] people. This is the message I must deliver. — Billy Graham

While God's will is that every marriage will endure, man's sin has poisoned many relationships. — Billy Graham

The Bible teaches that Satan is the author of sin. Sin is the reason we have afflictions, including death. All of our problems and our suffering are a result of man's rebellion
against God. But God has provided a rescue in His Son. — Billy Graham

Are you perhaps one of those who worries about having committed the unpardonable sin? If so, you should face squarely what the Bible says on this subject, not what you may have heard from others. The unpardonable sin is rejecting the truth about Christ. It is rejecting, completely and finally, the witness of the Holy Spirit, which declares that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who alone can save us from our sins. Have you rejected Christ in your own life, and said in your heart that what the Bible teaches about Him is a lie? Then I tell you as solemnly and as sincerely as I know how that you are in a very dangerous position. I urge you without delay to accept the truth about Christ, and to come to humble confession and repentance and faith. It would be tragic for you to persist in your unbelief, and eventually go into eternity without hope and without God. — Billy Graham

True repentance is a turning from sin ... Humanly speaking, it is our small part in the plan of salvation. Our part is repenting. God will do the converting, the transforming, and the forgiving. — Billy Graham

We want to be relevant ... However, the more relevant we become to a sin-dominated world, the more irrelevant we actually are to God. — Billy Graham

Compassion is not complete in itself, but must be accompanied by inflexible justice and wrath against sin and a desire for holiness. — Billy Graham

Anyone who has genuinely seen God is deeply convicted of his or her own sin. — Billy Graham

The only sin God cannot forgive is the sin of rejecting Christ. Turn to Him in repentance and faith - and He will forgive. — Billy Graham

The difference between the non-Christian and the Christian is that the non-Christian makes sin a practice; the true Christian does not. — Billy Graham

The Christian is not to be disturbed by the
chaos, violence, strife, bloodshed, and threat of war that fill the pages of our daily newspapers. We know that these things are the consequences of man's sin and greed. Every day as I read my newspaper I say: The Bible is true. — Billy Graham

The cross is the suffering love of God bearing the guilt of man's sin, which alone is able to melt the sinner's heart and bring him to repentance for salvation. "For he hath made him to be sin for us" [2 Corinthians 5:21 KJV]. — Billy Graham

Can the sin of one or a few cause suffering for many? The answer, of course, is yes, for no sin is isolated in the life of the sinner. It spreads like poison gas into every available crevice. — Billy Graham

Our magazine covers frequently feature the immoral, the perverted, the psychologically sick. Sin is "in." People don't like to be told they are sinners. — Billy Graham

Sin has tarnished every area of life, and [Christ] wants to erase its stain everywhere. — Billy Graham

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning. — Billy Graham

God's grace - His goodness and love toward us in spite of our sin - is the wellspring of our salvation. — Billy Graham

The late Dr. Harry Ironside once said, "Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions." To be sure, we must deplore wickedness, evil, and wrongdoing, but our commendable intolerance of sin too often develops into a deplorable intolerance of sinners. Jesus hates sin but loves the sinner. — Billy Graham

The cause of all trouble, the root of all sorrow, the dread of every man lies in this one small word - sin. It has crippled the nature of man ... It has caused man to be caught in the devil's trap. — Billy Graham

Make it your goal to become more like Christ by refusing to let sin have its way, and pursuing instead that which is pure and good in the sight of God. — Billy Graham

Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage. He offered us, not an excursion, but an execution. Our Savior said that we would have to be ready to die to self, sin, and the world. — Billy Graham

God can break the chain of every sin that binds you if you are willing to give it up. He comes into your heart and gives you power to overcome sin. — Billy Graham

We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.
It's called sin. — Billy Graham

Nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin. — Billy Graham

When we use the word "sin," we usually think of our misdeeds - actions or habits we know are wrong. But those are specific sins, and they are the result of sin, the deeper spiritual disease that infects our souls. Sin is the cause; sins are the effect.
Sin is the tree; sins are the fruit. Sin is the disease; sins are the symptoms. — Billy Graham

Christians are to be "the light of the world" [Matthew 5:14], illuminating the darkness caused by sin and giving guidance to a world that has lost its way. — Billy Graham

Sin - plain, old-fashioned sin, the self-same sin which caused Adam's downfall - is what we are all suffering from today, and it will do us far more harm than good to try to dress it up with a fancy, more attractive label. — Billy Graham

The Lord is not only tender and merciful and full of compassion, but He is also the God of justice, holiness and wrath ... Compassion is not complete in itself, but must be accompanied by inflexible justice and wrath against sin and a desire for holiness. What stirs God most is not physical suffering but sin. 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. God cannot clear the guilty until atonement is made. Mercy is what we need and that is what we receive at the foot of the cross. — Billy Graham

The lukewarm Christian can accomplish nothing with a whole life in which to do it. If you have lived for sin and self ... your witness will have [a] telling effect on all who have known you. — Billy Graham

Perversion is considered a biological abnormality rather than a sin. These things are contrary to the teaching of God's Word. And God has not changed. His standards have not been lowered. God still calls immorality a sin and the Bible says God is going to judge it. — Billy Graham

We do not have a paradise on earth; it is riddled with so much sin and disease. — Billy Graham

A transformed life is the greatest of all miracles. Every time a person is "born again" by repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ, the miracle of regeneration is performed. — Billy Graham

Understanding the consequence of sin and arrogance should motivate every Christian to pray for repentance and revival. — Billy Graham

Satan rejoices when old habits overwhelm [us] and we cave in to the pressure of the crowd ... perhaps temptation lures [us] into sin ... a backsliding Christian compromises their faith and causes unbelievers to mock the Gospel. — Billy Graham

Repent means to renounce sin ... and by God's grace to fill my mind with things that honor Him. — Billy Graham

Neither the devil nor the world, nor even our own evil heart can compel us to sin. It must be by our own consent and will. — Billy Graham

The Bible teaches that all sin begins with sinful thinking. — Billy Graham

There are thousands of lonely people who carry heavy and difficult burdens of grief, anxiety, pain, and disappointment; but the loneliest of all is one whose life is steeped in sin. — Billy Graham

Learn to take sin seriously - be on guard against it and resist its tug, fight its power. But most of all learn to take the Holy Spirit seriously, calling on Him to help you overcome sin's power and live a holy and godly life. — Billy Graham

To find the right path, we first need to remember why we are on the wrong path. The reason can be put in one word: sin. — Billy Graham

By [Christ's] resurrection life, He gives us the power over the tendency to sin as we allow Him to control our lives. — Billy Graham

[Christ's] goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows up our impurities; His sinlessness still reveals our sinfulness; and unless we allow [Jesus] to destroy the evil within us, the evil within us still wants to destroy Him. This is the conflict of the ages. — Billy Graham

Man seeks to excuse himself of sin, but God seeks to convict him of it and to save him from it. Sin is no amusing toy - it is a terror to be shunned! Learn, then, what constitutes sin in the eyes of God! — Billy Graham

Sin pierced the very heart of God. God felt every piercing nail and spear thrust. God felt the burning sun. God felt the mocking derision and the body blows. — Billy Graham

The only thing He forgets is our sins. — Billy Graham

The Bible teaches that whosoever is born of God does not practice sin. — Billy Graham

Sin diverts some. Pleasure diverts others. Social service and "religious" activity divert others. We are told to be occupied with Jesus Christ Himself. — Billy Graham

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do. — Billy Graham

We act as if it doesn't matter how we live or what we think or say. We have moved in with the world, and we have allowed the world to penetrate the way we live. So the things that we used to call sin no longer seem to be sin to us. — Billy Graham

The seed of sin is in us when we are born. — Billy Graham

If we in the church want a cause to fight, let's fight sin. Let's reveal its hideousness. Let's show that Jeremiah was correct when e said: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked" [Jeremiah 17:9 NKJV]. — Billy Graham

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is not anti-intellectual. It demands the use of [the] mind, but the mind is affected by sin. — Billy Graham

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse. — Billy Graham

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle. — Billy Graham

Some people have said that man has improved ... [and] that if Christ came back today, He would not be crucified but would be given a glorious reception. Christ does come to us every day in the form of Bibles that we do not read, in the form of churches that we do not attend, in the form of human need that we pass by. I am convinced that if Christ came back today, He would be crucified more quickly than He was two thousand years ago. Sin never improves. Human nature has not changed. — Billy Graham

As much as we hate to admit it, we are sinners by birth. We are also sinners by choice. We are also sinners by practice. — Billy Graham

Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins. — Billy Graham

Sin is rebellion against God. — Billy Graham

We make a mockery of God's forgiveness when we deliberately engage in sin because we think He will forgive it later. — Billy Graham

Sin has progressed and gained momentum;
[man] seems to have lost his ability to be shocked. Behavior that was once considered abominable is now acceptable. — Billy Graham

We've tried calling sin "errors" or mistakes" or "poor judgment," but sin itself has stayed the same. No matter how we try to salve our conscience, we've known all along that men are still sinners; and the results of sin are still disease, disappointment, disillusionment, despair, and death. — Billy Graham

It is possible through sin to harden our hearts against God so long that we lose all desire for God. The Scripture says: "God also gave them up" [Romans 1:24 KJV]. — Billy Graham

Why did Jesus Christ leave heaven's glory
and enter this sin-infested world? For one reason: to make our eternal salvation possible. — Billy Graham

The Bible says there is a certain pleasure in sin.
However, it is short-lived and fatal. — Billy Graham

On the cross Christ took upon Himself every sin we've ever committed - including anger. — Billy Graham

Our souls have a disease. It causes all the troubles and difficulties in the world. It causes all the troubles, confusions, and disillusionments in your own life. The name of the disease is ... sin. — Billy Graham

When that glorious day comes, sin and death will be destroyed and Satan will be banished. All the strife and hatred and suffering and death that twist and scar this world will vanish, and the Lord's Prayer will be fulfilled: God's will will be done on earth as it is in heaven. — Billy Graham

All young people sin, and sin produces discord, repellent vibrations which rifle the concert of life until the strings are gutless and flat. The kicks soon lead to kickbacks. — Billy Graham

Only the Holy Spirit can open our eyes. Only He can convict us of the depth of our sin, and only He can convince us of the truth of the Gospel. — Billy Graham

The greatest testimony to this dark world today would be a band of crucified and risen men and women, dead to sin and alive unto God, bearing in their bodies "the marks of the Lord Jesus" [Galatians 6:17 NKJV]. — Billy Graham

The greatest vision of sin that a person can
ever receive is to look at the cross. — Billy Graham

God judges mankind by the standard of the only God-man who ever lived, Jesus Christ. Jesus, the innocent Lamb of God, stands between our sin and the judgment of God the Father. — Billy Graham

How many homes are broken because of men and women who are unfaithful! God will not hold you guiltless! There is a day of reckoning. "Be sure your sin will find you out" (Numbers 32:23 ESV). They will find you out in your own family life here in your relationship with your mate; they will find you out in the life to come. — Billy Graham

Believe that Christ died for you. He suffered for you. He won the battle over sin for you. He rose from the grave and was victorious over death so that you can live forever. — Billy Graham

The cross shows the seriousness of our sin
but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God. — Billy Graham

Jesus did not die on the cross for people's sin so that we would believe in Heaven - but that we would believe in Him. Heaven does not save souls ... it collects them. — Billy Graham

Every manifestation of evil is the result of basic sin - sin that has remained unchanged since the moment it first entered the human race. — Billy Graham

The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin ... He was offering Himself as the sacrifice required by the justice of God if man was to be redeemed. — Billy Graham

God's will is for us to commit our lives to Christ and follow Him. God's will also is that we avoid sin. — Billy Graham

It is entirely possible to be deeply sorry because of the devastation which sin has wrought in our lives - and yet not repent. — Billy Graham

Sinful pleasure can ruin our appetite for the things of God. — Billy Graham

God longs for men to be saved. God is at work to get men to stop their downward plunge in sin. — Billy Graham

Sin, like a deadly cancer, has invaded every area of our lives: our bodies, our minds, our emotions, our wills - everything. — Billy Graham

The Holy Spirit not only convicts of sin but also convinces men that Jesus is the righteousness of God. He shows sinners that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. — Billy Graham

Sin's masterpiece of shame and hate became God's masterpiece of mercy and forgiveness. Through the death of Christ upon the cross, sin itself was crucified for those who believe in Him. — Billy Graham

The essence of sin is self-will - placing ourselves at the center of our lives instead of Christ. — Billy Graham

Salvation is always "good news." It is news of God's love and forgiveness - adoption into His family - fellowship with His people - freedom from the penalty of sin - liberation from the power of sin. — Billy Graham

Superficial views of God and His holiness will produce superficial views of sin and atonement. God hates sin. It is His uncompromising foe. Sin is vile and detestable in the sight of God ... The sinner and God are at opposite poles of the moral universe. — Billy Graham

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened. — Billy Graham

Sooner or later we must leave our dream world and face up to the facts of God, sin, and judgment. The Bible says, "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God" [Romans 3:23 NIV]. — Billy Graham

Jesus said ... i'm the only way to permanent peace, im the only way to permanent joy, im the only way to eternal life, im the only way to forgiveness of sin, im the only way to the Father. — Billy Graham