“Within the New Testament, there is no indication that Christians should expect to be healthy, wealthy, and successful in this present age.”
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Billy Graham
“If we in the church want a cause to fight, let’s fight sin. Let’s reveal its hideousness. Let’s show that Jeremiah was correct when e said: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked” [Jeremiah 17:9 NKJV].”
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Billy Graham
“The vitality [of] the Bible [is] exhibited in every generation . . .Its power to transform lives is its best apologetic.”
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Billy Graham
“To the Son of God prayer was more important than the assembling of great throngs . . . He often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed [Luke 5:15–16].”
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Billy Graham
“We don’t have to be on the battlefields of the world to experience strife and conflict. We need only to open our eyes each morning and read the headlines, we need only to turn a keen ear when our phones ring with bad news, we need only to open our hearts to those next door—and maybe even in our own homes—to notice those with grieving hearts.”
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Billy Graham
“Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world’s goods.”
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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
“As a Christian, I believe that we are all created in the image of God. I believe that God loves the whole world . . .The life of no human being is cheap in the eyes of God, nor can it be in our own eyes.”
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Billy Graham
“The empire of angels is as vast as God’s creation. If you believe the Bible, you will believe in their ministry.”
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Billy Graham
“As a person finds God’s will for his or her life, matters of conscience can be handled with perception from the Holy Spirit.”
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Billy Graham
“Too often we use petty little petitions, oratorical exercises, or the words of others rather than the cries of our inmost being. When you pray, pray!”
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Billy Graham
“Compassion is not complete in itself, but must be accompanied by inflexible justice and wrath against sin and a desire for holiness.”
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Billy Graham
“Faith literally means “to give up, surrender, or commit.” Faith is complete confidence.”
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Billy Graham
“Scripture makes it clear that our first love is always to be for our Lord.”
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Billy Graham
“I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.”
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Billy Graham
