“Faith in Christ is voluntary. A person cannot be coerced, bribed, or tricked into trusting Jesus. God will not force His way into your life. The Holy Spirit will do everything possible to disturb you, draw you, love you—but finally it is your personal decision.”
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Billy Graham
“If we who have the Holy Spirit living and working within us falter and fail, what hope is there for the rest of the world?”
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Billy Graham
“Prayer is not our using of God; it more often puts us in the position where God can use us.”
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Billy Graham
“Just as the Bible is God’s written Word, so Jesus is God’s living Word.”
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Billy Graham
“The Christian’s journey through life isn’t a sprint but a marathon.”
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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.”
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Billy Graham
“Christ warned His followers that to believe in Him would not make them popular, and that they should be prepared to face affliction for His sake.”
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Billy Graham
“God’s laws for the spiritual world are found in the Bible. Whatever else there may be that tells us of God, it is more clearly told in the Bible.”
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Billy Graham
“Reading the Bible has a purifying effect upon the heart and mind. As you read, the Holy Spirit will enlighten the passages for you.”
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Billy Graham
“To a sinner, a righteous person is an oddity and an abnormality. A Christian’s goodness is a rebuke to the wicked; his being right-side up is a reflection upon the worldling’s inverted position.”
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Billy Graham
“I’m afraid most Bibles remain unopened and unread. Don’t let this be true of yours!”
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Billy Graham
“Once for all God made complete and perfect provision for the cure of man’s sins; without the blood of Christ, it is indeed a fatal disease.”
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Billy Graham
“If ever a generation was bequeathed the knowledge of God, we were. Yet we are throwing away this glorious heritage on our lust and passions.”
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Billy Graham
“When the Christian brings the standards of Jesus Christ to bear upon life in a material and secular world, it is often resented. Because the moral and spiritual demands of Jesus Christ are so high, they often set the Christian “apart.”
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Billy Graham
“I’m not a great preacher, and I don’t claim to be a great preacher . . . I’m an ordinary preacher, just communicating the Gospel in the best way I know how.”
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Billy Graham
