Hope for Each Day Quotes

“therefore i live for today-
certain of finding at sunrise
guidance and strength for the way.
power for each moment of weakness,
hope for each moment of pain,
comfort for every sorrow,
sunshine and joy after rain!”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith (A 365-Day Devotional) – The Perfect Christian Christmas Gift

“Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith (A 365-Day Devotional) – The Perfect Christian Christmas Gift

“Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is one reason we must receive Christ, for apart from His Spirit we can never be freed from the chains of selfishness, jealousy, and indifference. Will others see Christ's love in your life today?”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith (A 365-Day Devotional) – The Perfect Christian Christmas Gift

“You cannot come to Christ unless the Spirit of God brings you. But what if you ignore His warnings? Then you are in the gravest danger, for some day God will no longer be speaking to you. Then it will be too late. Come to Christ while there is still time. Christ, God's greater Ark, stands ready to welcome you to safety today.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith (A 365-Day Devotional) – The Perfect Christian Christmas Gift

“If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.

Let me explain what I mean by this. If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.

Let's take this a step further. Robots do not love. God created us with the capacity to love. Love is based upon one's right to choose to love. We cannot force others to love us. We can make them serve us or obey us. But true love is founded upon one's freedom to choose to respond.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith (A 365-Day Devotional) – The Perfect Christian Christmas Gift

“your faith and hope are in god.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith (A 365-Day Devotional) – The Perfect Christian Christmas Gift

“What will it profit a man
if he gains the whole world,
and loses his own soul? MARK 8:36”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“Some people have a warped idea of living the Christian life. Seeing talented, successful Christians, they attempt to imitate them. For them, the grass on the other side of the fence is always greener. But when they discover that their own gifts are different or their contributions are more modest (or even invisible), they collapse in discouragement and overlook genuine opportunities that are open to them. They have forgotten that they are here to serve Christ, not themselves.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith (A 365-Day Devotional) – The Perfect Christian Christmas Gift

“Nothing but God ever completely satisfies, because the soul was made for God. Don’t starve your soul.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“John Knox prayed, and the results caused Queen Mary to say that she feared the prayers of John Knox more than she feared all the armies of Scotland. John Wesley prayed, and revival came to England, sparing that nation the horrors of the French Revolution. Jonathan Edwards prayed, and revival spread throughout the American colonies. History has been changed time after time because of prayer. I tell you, history could be changed again if people went to their knees in believing prayer. Even when times are bleak and the world scorns God, He still works through the prayers of His people. Pray today for revival in your nation, and around the world.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“It is not easy to shut out the world, set aside a few minutes by yourself, and spend time in God’s Word and prayer. But it is essential if we are to grow in our relationship with God and be strengthened for the battles ahead. Don’t delay. Begin now to spend time alone with God every day.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“Worry is an old man with a bent head, carrying a load of feathers he thinks is lead.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day Deluxe: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“Suffering and success go together. If you are succeeding without suffering, it is because others before you have suffered; if you are suffering without succeeding, it is that others after you may succeed.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day Deluxe: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“On the surface the world has changed radically since that first Christmas. But deep inside, our problems are the same—for they are problems of the heart. And Christ still comes to us to cleanse our guilt, give us hope for the future, and heal our hurts with His love.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“When our hearts are surrendered totally to the will of God, then we delight in seeing Him use us in any way He pleases. Our plans and desires begin to agree with His, and we accept His direction in our lives. Our sense of joy, satisfaction, and fulfillment in life increases, no matter what the circumstances, if we are in the center of God’s will.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“Abraham Lincoln said, “I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this Book upon reason that you can and the balance upon faith, and you will live and die a better man.” Coleridge said he believed the Bible to be the Word of God because, as he put it, “It finds me.” “If you want encouragement,” John Bunyan wrote, “entertain the promises.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“God knows far better than we do what is best for us. Thank God even when He says “No” or “Wait.” His answer is always perfect.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“Things don’t always work out the way we plan. But if we commit our way to Christ and walk in obedience to Him, we discover His plans are always better.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“Only surrendered Christians will make an impact on our world. The world does not need any more lukewarm Christians, or lazy Christians, or quarrelsome Christians, or doubting Christians, or prideful Christians.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“Each of us experiences clouds in life—sometimes slight, but sometimes dark and frightening. Whatever clouds you face today, ask Jesus, the light of the world, to help you look behind the cloud to see His glory and His plans for you.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“It seems to me there’s an awful lot of trouble in the world that somehow wouldn’t exist if all the people who sing such songs went and lived them out.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day Deluxe: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“Paul wrote, “Therefore we do not lose heart. . . . For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal” (2 Corinthians 4:16, 18). Knowing we will be with Christ forever far outweighs our burdens today! Keep your eyes on eternity!”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day Deluxe: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“As another year ends, no doubt you have had your share of joys and disappointments. Don’t live in the past, but “be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near” (James 5:8 NIV).”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“Our days on earth are as a shadow. 1 CHRONICLES 29:15”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“In our world, we give most of our attention to satisfying the appetites of the body and practically none to the soul. Consequently we are one-sided. We become fat physically and materially, while spiritually we are lean, weak, and anemic. The soul actually demands as much attention as the body. It demands fellowship and communion with God.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“We are not the masters of our fate. We think we control our lives—but we don’t. In an instant life can radically change— a car accident, a heart attack, a pink slip, a child’s raging fever. Frustrated researchers conquer one deadly virus, only to discover one even more lethal. The Psalmist pointed out our basic dilemma: “The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away” (Ps. 90:10 NIV). Even if we live to a ripe old age, he said, we seldom know peace. No book is more realistic about the human situation than the Bible. It won’t let us get by with frothy platitudes or unsupported optimism. But it also gives us hope.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“Sometimes I almost wish Thomas Jefferson had not inserted those words in the American Declaration of Independence about “the pursuit of happiness.” He was correct, of course; God has given us the “right” (or at least the freedom) to pursue happiness. The problem is that millions think this must be the primary purpose of life, and they spend their lives frantically pursuing it. In the end, however, their search ends in disillusionment. Happiness is a byproduct of something greater, not an end in itself. Happiness cannot be pursued and caught, anymore than one can pursue a sunny day, put it in a bottle, and then bring it out on a rainy day to enjoy again.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“Dwight L. Moody was fond of pointing out that there are three kinds of faith in Jesus Christ: struggling faith, which is like a man floundering and fearful in deep water; clinging faith, which is like a man hanging to the side of a boat; and resting faith, which finds a man safe inside the boat—strong and secure enough to reach out his hand to help someone else. Notice each man had faith. Each knew the boat was his only hope. But only one had a resting faith. Only one had discovered he could actually be in the boat—where all he had to do was rest.”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God stands forever. ISAIAH 40:8”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith

“Even in the midst of troubles, the Bible says, “I will turn their mourning to joy” (Jer. 31:13). How does it happen? By looking in faith to God. He has not abandoned us, and He has plans for our future. He can even give us an optimistic spirit—somewhat like the Englishman I heard about during World War II who stood looking at the deep hole in the ground where his bombed-out home had once stood. “I always did want a basement, I did,” he said. “Now I can jolly well build another house like I always wanted!”
― Billy Graham, Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith