“ If we allow our Christian faith to be adulterated with materialism, watered down by secularism, and intermingled with a bland humanism, we cannot stand up to a system that has vowed to bury us. Billy Graham
“ Today we are putting our hopes in materialism, in technological progress, and in freedom from moral absolutes. They have all failed. They’ve failed because they’ve been powerless to change the human h… Billy Graham
“ Covetousness puts money above manhood. It shackles its devotee and makes him its victim. It hardens the heart and deadens the noble impulses and destroys the vital qualities of life. Billy Graham
“ The Internal Revenue Service wants a record of how you spend your money, but that is nothing compared to the books God is keeping. Billy Graham
“ We have tried to enthrone the false gods of money, fame, and human intelligence; but however we try, the end is always the same: “It is appointed unto men once to die” [Hebrews 9:27 KJV]. Billy Graham
“ The Bible warns that money cannot buy happiness! Money cannot buy true pleasure. Money cannot buy peace of heart. And money certainly cannot buy entrance into the kingdom of God. Billy Graham
“ Money represents your time, your energy, your talents, your total personality converted into currency. We usually hold on to it tenaciously, yet it is uncertain in value and we cannot take it into the… Billy Graham
“ Tell me what you think about money, and I will tell you what you think about God, for these two are closely related. A man’s heart is closer to his wallet than anything else. Billy Graham
“ Many young people are building their lives on the rock of materialism. I find across the country a deep economic discontent among people in every walk of life. Billy Graham
“ Can people tell from the emphasis we attach to material things whether we have set our affection on things above, or whether we are primarily attached to this world? Billy Graham
“ We can possess nothing—no property and no person . . . It is God who owns everything, and we are but stewards of His property during the brief time we are on earth. Billy Graham
“ We are only stewards of the world’s resources. They are not ours; they are God’s. When we find our security in Him, we can then give generously from what He has entrusted to us. This is our Christian… Billy Graham
“ God does not need our money. He owns everything, including “our” money. What He wants [us] to discover is where our central focus of worship lies. Is that focus on God or our money? Billy Graham
“ Pleasure depends on circumstances, but Christian joy is completely independent of health, money, or surroundings. Billy Graham
“ If young people could only realize that a happy marriage depends not only on the present, but upon the past, they would be more reluctant to enter into loose, intimate relations with anyone and everyo… Billy Graham
“ The secret of domestic happiness is to let God, the party of the third part in the marriage contract, have His rightful place in the home. Make peace with Him and then you can be a real peacemaker in… Billy Graham
“ The perfect marriage is a uniting of three persons—a man and a woman and God. That is what makes marriage holy. Billy Graham
“ Thousands of young couples go through with a loveless marriage because no one ever told them what genuine love is. If people today knew that kind of love, the divorce rate would be sharply reduced. Billy Graham
