“Popularity and adulation are far more dangerous for the Christian than persecution. It is easy when all goes smoothly to lose our
sense of balance and perspective.”
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Billy Graham
“Satan’s method has often been to imitate God.
Satan is still using this form of deception, and often his representatives are being disguised as ministers of righteousness.”
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Billy Graham
“Repeated disappointment almost always triggers a series of other reactions: discouragement, anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment, even depression. Unless we learn to deal with disappointment, it will rob us of joy and poison our souls.”
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Billy Graham
“We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.”
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Billy Graham
“Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.”
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Billy Graham
“We are commissioned to make disciples, to bring them into the same direct relationship with Christ as those who left their nets and their fishing boats to become “fishers of men.”
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Billy Graham
“Preachers are not salesmen, for they have nothing to sell. They are bearers of Good News.”
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Billy Graham
“Earth’s troubles fade in the light of heaven’s hope.”
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Billy Graham
“Jesus made everything so simple and we have made it so complicated. He spoke to the people in short sentences and everyday words, illustrating His messages with never-to-be forgotten stories.”
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Billy Graham
“We do not have a paradise on earth; it is riddled with so much sin and disease.”
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Billy Graham
“Man’s nature and destiny are revealed in the Scriptures.”
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Billy Graham
“Some people resist the idea of a choice of any sort. They don’t want to be called “narrow.” But Jesus taught that there are two roads, and you have to choose which road you will take.”
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Billy Graham
“Don’t take your Bible for granted! For centuries ordinary believers had no access to the Bible; Bibles had to be painstakingly copied by hand and were very expensive. The only access most people had to the Bible was by hearing it read in church. The invention of the printing press changed all that, however, and today the Bible is readily available in multiple translations and hundreds of languages around the world.”
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Billy Graham
“We need to be on guard against greed . . . above all we need to make sure our lives are centered in Christ and not things.”
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Billy Graham
“Our relationship must be right with God before it can be right with man.”
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Billy Graham
