“True conversion will involve the mind, the affection, and the will. There have been thousands of people who have been intellectually converted to Christ . . .but they have never been really converted to Him.”
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Billy Graham
“Death carries with it a certain dread. It [is] the enemy, the great, mysterious monster that makes people quake with fear.”
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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
“When the church begins to entertain the flock and respond to the cult of self—it is diminished to a mere community center.”
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Billy Graham
“Death of the righteous . . . is not to be feared or shunned. It is the shadowed threshold to the palace of God.”
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Billy Graham
“God gave us our children so we could prepare them to become adults.”
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Billy Graham
“We now have the advantage of a few years more of life, but death is still standing at the end of the road.”
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Billy Graham
“A professor at the University of Michigan said to me: “As soon as we create life in a test tube, we won’t need God anymore.” I answered: “This happened once before when man ruled God out and proposed the Tower of Babel. It ended in frustration, confusion, and judgment.”
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Billy Graham
“Man is precisely what the Bible says he is. Human nature is behaving exactly as the Bible said it would. The course of human events is flowing just as Christ predicted.”
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Billy Graham
“I believe there is an obedience to the Gospel, there is a self-denial and a bearing of the cross, if you are to be a follower of Christ. Being a Christian is a serious business.”
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Billy Graham
“Society has become so obsessed with sex that it seeps from all the pores of our national life.”
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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
“In taking our human nature upon Himself, [Jesus] showed us what we might become, what God intended us to be.”
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Billy Graham
“To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high.”
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Billy Graham
“By faith in [Jesus] we can be forgiven of our sins and know the joy of following Him every day.”
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Billy Graham
