“Jesus knows the intentions of our hearts and what we do in secret.”
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Billy Graham
“There is always the exceptional child, but the average tells us that the child is largely what the home has made him.”
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Billy Graham
“Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness.”
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Billy Graham
“Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Deception is everything opposite the truth.”
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Billy Graham
“Movie and television stars lay down the law of
fashions, manners, speech, and even moral behavior. It has been proven that a movie or a television program can brainwash.”
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Billy Graham
“Nowhere has God promised anyone, even His children, immunity from sorrow, suffering, and pain. This world is a “vale of tears,” and disappointment and heartache are as inevitable as clouds and shadows. Suffering is often the crucible in which our faith is tested. Those who successfully come through the “furnace of affliction” are the ones who emerge “like gold tried in the fire.”
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Billy Graham
“Do you want your faith to grow? Then let the Bible begin to saturate your mind and soul.”
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Billy Graham
“In order to get to heaven, Jesus said that you must be converted. I didn’t say it—Jesus said it!”
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Billy Graham
“The Pilgrims . . . put their ideals ahead of all material considerations. It is not surprising that the Pilgrims had little and succeeded, while we have much and are in danger of failing. No civilization can make progress unless some great principle is generously mixed into the mortar of its foundations in life.”
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Billy Graham
“Prayer is not our using of God; it more often puts us in the position where God can use us.”
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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
“If people stumble, we help them get back on their feet; if they veer off course, we urge them back. On this journey we are all brothers and sisters in the same family—the family of God.”
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Billy Graham
“The distinctive feature of Christianity is blood atonement. Without it we cannot be saved. Blood is actually a symbol of the death of Christ.”
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Billy Graham
“For His mercy endures forever. Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy. (Psalm 107:1–2)”
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Billy Graham
“The Bible teaches that faith is the only approach that we have to God. No man has sins forgiven, no man goes to heaven, no man has assurance of peace and happiness, until he has faith in Jesus Christ.”
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Billy Graham
