“We are to feed the new nature on the Word of God constantly, and we are to starve the old nature, which craves the world and the flesh. We are told to “make not provision for the flesh” [Romans 13:14 KJV].”
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Billy Graham
“The late Dr. Harry Ironside once said, “Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions.” To be sure, we must deplore wickedness, evil, and wrongdoing, but our commendable intolerance of sin too often develops into a deplorable intolerance of sinners. Jesus hates sin but loves the sinner.”
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Billy Graham
“It is possible through sin to harden our hearts against God so long that we lose all desire for God. The Scripture says: “God also gave them up” [Romans 1:24 KJV].”
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Billy Graham
“Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one ever bothered to ask!”
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Billy Graham
“Our world today is looking for men and women with integrity, for communicators who back up their ministry with their lives. Our preaching emerges out of what we are. We are called to be a holy people—separated from the moral evils of the world.”
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Billy Graham
“We are the most informed people in the history of civilization—and yet the most confused. Though our heads are crammed with knowledge, our hearts are empty.”
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Billy Graham
“You can put a public school and university in the middle of every block of every city in America—but you will never keep America from rotting morally by mere intellectual education.”
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Billy Graham
“In the Bible God speaks to us; in prayer we speak to God. Both are essential.”
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Billy Graham
“The difference between the non-Christian and the Christian is that the non-Christian makes sin a practice; the true Christian does not.”
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Billy Graham
“When the “evil day” comes, we do not have to be dependent upon the circumstances around us, but rather on the resources of God!”
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Billy Graham
“Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness.”
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Billy Graham
“If there were no heaven and no hell, I would still want to be a Christian because of what it does for our homes and our own families in this life.”
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Billy Graham
“God speaks to us through our conscience. This may be a “still small voice” that will not let us go until we do what we know is right . . .we must never silence that inner voice—[but] check what we think it is saying against the Scriptures.”
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Billy Graham
“Too many husbands and wives enter into marriage with the idea that their spouse exists for one purpose: to make them happy.”
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Billy Graham
“The Bible is not an option; it is a necessity. You cannot grow spiritually strong without it.”
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Billy Graham
