“The Bible warns us against greed and selfishness, it does encourage frugality and thrift.”
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Billy Graham
“America has probably been the most successful experiment in history. The American Dream was a glorious attempt. It was built on a religious foundation. Its earliest concepts came from Holy Scripture.”
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Billy Graham
“More friction and tensions are caused in a family by tone of voice than for any other one reason.”
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Billy Graham
“By faith in [Jesus] we can be forgiven of our sins and know the joy of following Him every day.”
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Billy Graham
“Satan rejoices when we are inconsistent, because he knows that an inconsistent Christian is an ineffective Christian—or worse.”
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Billy Graham
“Satan will do everything he can to divide Christians and destroy our witness. Only the Holy Spirit can subdue our old nature and overcome it with God’s love.”
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Billy Graham
“Trials and difficulties may assail the life of a believer, but they also have the ability to remold his character and banish from his life those impurities which might impair growth and service.”
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Billy Graham
“Don’t take the holiness of God lightly, for it is the very essence of His character.”
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Billy Graham
“[God] says to pray for our enemies. How many of us have ever spent time praying for our enemies?”
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Billy Graham
“The heart of man, though small, is big enough for Christ to live in, if man will only make room for Him.”
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Billy Graham
“Today we have more knowledge than at any other time in history. In seconds our laptops or PCs can call up information about a topic that would have taken years to collect. Young people graduate with more knowledge than ever before—but in spite of their knowledge, they are confused, bewildered, frustrated, and without moral moorings.”
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Billy Graham
“O God! There are many things in [the Bible] I do not understand . . . I am going to accept this as Thy Word—by faith! I’m going to allow faith to go beyond my intellectual questions and doubts, and I will believe this to be Your inspired Word.”
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Billy Graham
“Flesh is the Bible’s word for unperfected human nature. Leaving off the “h” and spelling it in reverse, we have the word self. Flesh is the self-life: it is what we are when we are left to our own devices.”
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Billy Graham
“Suffering can give us opportunities to witness. The world is a gigantic hospital; nowhere is there a greater chance to see the peace and joy of the Lord than when the journey through the valley is the darkest.”
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Billy Graham
“Nations rise, they flourish for a time, and then they decline. Eventually every empire comes to an end; not even the greatest can last forever.”
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Billy Graham
