In 1953, Billy Graham tackled the topic of finding spiritual calm in the midst of a personal life wracked with too much stress. His study and efforts resulted in the book Peace with God.

More than seven decades later, we live in a digital age. Many are searching for authenticity and the meaning of life, while being bombarded from every angle by the busyness of work and family. In the midst of such chaos, Peace with God remains exceedingly relevant today.

Billy Graham remembers writing Peace with God in his autobiography, Just As I Am:

“I worked on that first book, on and off, for the better part of a year. I dictated the first draft in about ten days on an Ediphone, a machine using bulky wax cylinders. It was one of those times in my life when I sense the direction of God in an extraordinary way. I wrote it out of a burning conviction that a book presenting the Gospel in a simple but comprehensive way was what people who had little or no religious background needed. Ruth was my greatest helper in giving me ideas; she has always been a storehouse of illustrations and stories. I sent that first draft to a few people, including my friend Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse, for suggestions. The final draft I got into the publisher’s hands by August 1953. Peace with God, as it was titled, was published in late October and became an immediate bestseller. Millions of copies have been distributed in the intervening years, and it has now been translated into fifty languages.”

Countless people have found the path to peace with God and eternal hope through the truth contained in book’s pages. Only Heaven knows the real number of people touched by the message it shares—the timeless message of the cross and God’s lasting love for His creation.

While written in the mid-20th century, the words in Peace with God feel just as relevant today as you read Billy Graham’s answers to questions like the ones below:

What is God Like?

Who is God? What is He like? How can we be sure He exists? When did He begin? Can we know Him?

Everyone has asked these questions either aloud or to himself, for we cannot look at the world around us and not wonder about its creation. We are daily faced with the miracle of life and the mystery of death, of the glory of flowering trees, the magnificence of the star-filled sky, the magnitude of mountains and of sea. Who made all this? Who conceived the law of gravity by which everything is held in its proper place? Who ordered the day and the night and regular procession of the seasons? What about the infinity of the universe? Can we honestly believe (as someone has written), “This is all there is or was or every will be”?

The only possible answer is that all these things and many more are the work of a Supreme Creator. As a watch must have a designer, so our precise universe has a Great Designer. We call Him God. His is a name with whom the whole human race is familiar. From earliest childhood we have breathed His name. The Bible declares that the God we talk about, the God we sing about, the God “from whom all blessings flow!” is the God who created this world and placed us in it. Our exploration of space would be impossible in a universe ungoverned by the laws of God.

You can find Peace with God and other titles by Billy Graham in the Ruth’s Attic bookstore at the Billy Graham Library. The bookstore also offers shipping for those unable to visit. Orders can be placed via email to RALibrary@bgea.org.