“Just because a person claims to be a Christian does not necessarily mean that he is one.”
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Billy Graham
“The Bible's picture of a godly leader also describes the godly home: "A shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in the desert and the shadow of a great rock" (Isaiah 32:2). May that be true of your home.”
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Billy Graham
“Many people are willing to have Jesus as part of their lives—as long as it doesn’t cost them anything. They may even profess faith in Jesus and join a church. But Jesus to them is almost like an insurance policy—something they obtain and then forget about until they die. What keeps you from being His disciple?”
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Billy Graham
“Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality of such a place.”
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Billy Graham
“Reading God’s Word and meditating on its truth will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart, and will be demonstrated in your life. Let nothing take the place of this daily privilege.”
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Billy Graham
“God called me many years ago to be an evangelist, and I have never regretted His leading. I love the crusades, meeting people from every country and culture all over the world. My life has been blessed by friends from every land, and challenges from every corner.”
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Billy Graham
“The Bible is God’s gift to us. It came from God, and it points us to God.”
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Billy Graham
“Prayer is for every moment of our lives, not just for times of suffering or joy. Prayer is really a place, a place where you meet God in genuine conversation.”
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Billy Graham
“Christ said there is a happiness in that acknowledgement of spiritual poverty which lets God come into our souls.”
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Billy Graham
“We have seen moral and religious leaders,
men who claim to be followers of Jesus,
fall into disgrace in the eyes of God and man, and worst of all we have seen the Gospel of Jesus Christ and twisted and distorted it by false teachers to accommodate the destructive morals and secular behavior of these times.”
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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
“Golden years' must have been coined by the young. It is doubtful that anyone over seventy would have described this phase of life with such a symbolic word.”
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Billy Graham
“A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and so is our character.”
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Billy Graham
“God has given us two hands--one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.”
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Billy Graham
“Prayer is key to our effort to communicate the Gospel and win men and women to Christ.”
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Billy Graham
