“[While] disappointment and failure aren’t identical, they often occur together, and both can hold us back from God’s best for our lives.”
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Billy Graham
“Parenting is the most important responsibility most of us will ever face, and none of us does it perfectly.”
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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
“When you truly love someone, you want to please and honor them by the way you act. How you treat someone shows whether or not you really care about them.”
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Billy Graham
“Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.”
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Billy Graham
“It has always been a mark of decaying civilizations to become obsessed with sex. When people lose their way, their purpose, their will, and their goals, as well as their faith . . . they go “a whoring.” It is a form of diversion that requires no thought, no character, and no restraint.”
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Billy Graham
“Christ . . . didn’t come to treat symptoms. He came to get at the very heart of man’s disease.”
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Billy Graham
“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.”
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Billy Graham
“Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality.”
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Billy Graham
“I find something new in the Bible every time I read it . . . that can be the experience of everyone who comes to it wanting to discover more of God’s truth.”
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Billy Graham
“What greater glory can we anticipate than to stand before the throne of God, to humble ourselves before His great and incomparable majesty.”
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Billy Graham
“He who prays as he ought, will endeavor to live as he prays.”
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Billy Graham
“Our chaotic, confused world has no greater need than to hear the Gospel truth.”
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Billy Graham
“We will be judged according to our ability. The retired couple who count the offering every Sunday, never divulging the amount anyone in the congregation contributes, will not be tested in the same way as the millionaire who wants an inscription on the stained glass window, so everyone will know who donated it. Some of the most severe tests will be given to the [preachers] for the way in which they handled the Word of God. There will be no reward for leading others astray in lifestyle or in doctrine through false teaching.”
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Billy Graham
