Bill Bright Quotes

With God life is an endless hope. Without God, life is a hopeless end.

There is no higher calling or greater privilege known to man than being involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission.

Successful witnessing is taking the initiative to share Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit and leaving the results to God.

Set goals so big that unless God helps you, you will be a miserable failure.

As you love God and serve Him, you will undoubtedly experience the greatest adventure life has to offer.

The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker.

Fasting with a pure heart and motives, I have discovered, brings personal revival and adds power to our prayers. Personal revival occurs because fasting is an act of humility. Fasting gives opportunity for deeper humility as we recognize our sins, repent, receive God's forgiveness, and experience His cleansing of our soul and spirit. Fasting also demonstrates our love for God and our full confidence in His faithfulness.

Every day, I find countless opportunities to decide whether I will obey God and demonstrate my love for Him or try to please myself or the world system. God is waiting for my choices.

To experience true life, we must continue the Christian journey the same way we began it - by faith.

Show me a church or a Christian organization that emphasizes prayer, and I'll show you a ministry where people are excited about Jesus Christ and are witnessing for Him.

I want before God that everything, every thought, attitude, action, motive, desire in my heart be pleasing to Him. I ask Him, 'Keep the spotlight of your Spirit on me so there would be nothing impure or unholy in my life.' That's been my prayer for 50 years.

Fasting reduces the power of self so that the Holy Spirit can do a more intense work within us.

I am driven to keep going for Christ by the filling of the Holy Spirit and the knowledge that the harvest is not forever. It will soon be past.

I'm a New Testament Christian. I reject and throw out titles. I'm not a fundamentalist, though I'm fundamental in all of my doctrine. I'm not an evangelical, because that means that I exclude the Catholics and main-liners, and Orthodox. I'm a believer who loves Jesus and I work with everybody else whatever their denomination; Catholic, Orthodox, charismatic, main line, evangelicals, anyone who loves Jesus.

We cannot and must not sit back and let the anti-biblical world system determine the prevailing values of our day.

By rejecting faith in Jesus Christ, America has also rejected God's protective hand, which until recently, sheltered this nation from harm. We have invited the devil which all his diabolical and destructive power in our daily lives.

Inspiration without perspiration leads to frustration and stagnation.

Outlawing religion form the political arena is not what the Founding Fathers intended when they drafted the First Amendment. We do a grave disservice to our country by removing the influence of religion. If you separate God from the public arena, inevitably you separate good from our government.

Working constantly may be visible proof that deep inside we do not trust God.

We've been bought with a price, the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. So none of us really have any rights.

I had to learn how to trust the Lord. My faith muscles grew. Just like, you're exercising your muscles and they may be sore for a while, but they become stronger with exercise.

We're teaching our children how to live. We need to start teaching them how to die.

I know I'm a Son of God, an heir of God, and a joint heir of Christ. I'm seated with him in the heavenlies, but by choice; like Paul, Peter and others, I've chosen to be a slave.

I'm more concerned about the salvation of souls than I am in promoting a particular party.

I remember when Ronald Reagan was president he said 'if the American people obeyed the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule we wouldn't have any problems.' The first time I heard him say it I thought, 'That's too simplistic.' There are complicated problems back there. But you analyze it, he's right.