“Pray because Christ died to give us access to the Father. Pray because God is worthy of our praise. Pray because we need His forgiveness, cleansing, guidance, and protection. Pray because others need our prayers.”
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Billy Graham
“The Lord is not only tender and merciful and full of compassion, but He is also the God of justice, holiness and wrath…Compassion is not complete in itself, but must be accompanied by inflexible justice and wrath against sin and a desire for holiness. What stirs God most is not physical suffering but sin. All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die. God cannot clear the guilty until atonement is made. Mercy is what we need and that is what we receive at the foot of the cross.”
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Billy Graham
“Some Christians have an elastic conscience when it comes to their own foibles—and an ironbound conscience when it comes to the foibles of others.”
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Billy Graham
“Jesus Christ opened heaven’s door for us by His death on the cross.”
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Billy Graham
“Christianity has become so respectable and so conventional that it is now insipid. The salt has lost its flavor.”
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Billy Graham
“We cannot be satisfied with our goodness after beholding the holiness of God.”
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Billy Graham
“Honesty means exactly what it says. We are honest and trustworthy in all our dealings. People can trust our word, because we refuse to lie or shade the truth.”
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Billy Graham
“The heart of the Christian Gospel with its incarnation and atonement is in the cross and the resurrection. Jesus was born to die.”
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Billy Graham
“We say to our children, “Act like grown-ups,” but Jesus said to the grown-ups, “Be like children.”
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Billy Graham
“It is not the posture of the body, but the attitude of the heart that counts when we pray . . . The important thing is not the position of the body but the condition of the soul.”
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Billy Graham
“Jesus indicated that there will be a permissive society just before He comes back . . . the world today is on an immoral binge such as has not been known since the days of Rome. We are in a hedonistic society, and what we are seeing is human nature expressing itself without God.”
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Billy Graham
“It is vitally important for local church leaders to keep in touch with the spiritual state of their members, to discuss their level of biblical knowledge, and to teach them how to study God’s Word and pray.”
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Billy Graham
“Evangelism has always been the heartbeat for our ministry; it is what God has called us to do.”
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Billy Graham
“It is the absence of the knowledge of God and man’s refusal to obey Him that lie at the root of every problem which besets us.”
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Billy Graham
“Christianity cannot expect the world to live the truths of the Gospel until it has the life that the Gospel provides in Christ. We Christians ought to be light and salt in the society in which we live.”
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Billy Graham
