“Before three thousand people were brought into the church on the day of Pentecost, the disciples had spent fifty days in prayer, fasting, and spiritual travail.”
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Billy Graham
“Why shouldn’t we have laws forbidding pornography and obscenity? Many heroic leaders have tried, but they have stumbled over even the definition of the word “obscenity.” If we cannot agree on the length of a foot, it is because we have lost our yardstick.”
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Billy Graham
“I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.”
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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
“By the 1960s the United States had a new ruling class—the teenager!”
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Billy Graham
“Christianity is not a white man’s religion and don’t let anybody ever tell you that it’s white or black. Christ belongs to all people; he belongs to the whole world.”
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Billy Graham
“With an old head and a young heart, you can be a source of real strength [to others] who need your cheer and encouragement.”
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Billy Graham
“What happens when lying and stealing and immorality and murder become the norm? The result can be summarized in one word: chaos.”
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Billy Graham
“One of the joys of heaven . . . will be discovering the hidden ways that God in His sovereignty acted in our lives on earth to protect and guide us [that we might] bring glory to His name, in spite of our frailty.”
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Billy Graham
“Many churches have molded their programs around the community—not the Word of God.”
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Billy Graham
“A call for national and individual repentance is urgently needed today, or judgment is certain to fall.”
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Billy Graham
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”
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Billy Graham
“It is strange that the world accepts enthusiasm in every realm but the spiritual.”
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Billy Graham
“It is a comfort to hear the words of God in times of stress.”
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Billy Graham
“Are your beliefs anchored in a faith that can withstand emotionalism, the drug culture, social and peer pressure, and material temptations? The world is seething with demonic energy. Only supreme inner strength can resist its ceaseless hassling.”
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Billy Graham
