“Be attractive and winsome, but do not compromise your convictions for the sake of popularity.”
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Billy Graham
“Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil.”
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Billy Graham
“A senator once confided to me that the greatest need in Washington was the elimination of the cocktail party. He said: “It consumes so much of our time that we don’t have time for matters of state.”
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Billy Graham
“I listened to a discussion of religious leaders on how to communicate the Gospel. Not once did I hear them mention prayer. And yet I know of scores of churches that win many converts each year by prayer alone.”
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Billy Graham
“Too many people want to have one foot in the world and one foot in the kingdom of God, and it is like straddling a fence. You are not happy either way. Declare yourself for Christ.”
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Billy Graham
“The blood of Christ “purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation” (Revelation 5:9 NIV).”
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Billy Graham
“[Angels] crisscross the Old and New Testaments, being mentioned directly or indirectly nearly 300 times.”
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Billy Graham
“The church is blending into the community by embracing what the world enjoys and, in turn, bringing inside the church the world’s ideas and interests.”
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Billy Graham
“The mind is the devil’s favorite avenue of attack.”
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Billy Graham
“True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency. Make it a habit, and when the need arises you will be in practice.”
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Billy Graham
“Greed is an unreasonable or all-absorbing desire to acquire things or wealth. One test of greed is that it is never satisfied. Greed is repeatedly condemned in the Bible.”
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Billy Graham
“We’ve tried calling sin “errors” or mistakes” or “poor judgment,” but sin itself has stayed the same. No matter how we try to salve our conscience, we’ve known all along that men are still sinners; and the results of sin are still disease, disappointment, disillusionment, despair, and death.”
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Billy Graham
“Today an educated, civilized society is turning its face while thousands of unborn babies are being killed. God Himself, if not history, will judge this greater holocaust.”
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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
“Don’t give Satan a foothold, but discipline yourself to stay close to God. He alone is your security.”
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Billy Graham
