“God doesn’t comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.”
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Billy Graham
“A Christian funeral should be a coronation ceremony, a statement to the world about eternal life.”
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Billy Graham
“Hypochondriacs who have a fanciful anxiety about their health will never be well regardless of their physical condition.”
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Billy Graham
“The men upon whose shoulders rested the initial responsibility of Christianizing the world came to Jesus with one supreme request. They did not say, “Lord, teach us to preach”; “Lord, teach us to do miracles”; or “Lord, teach us to be wise” . . . but they said, “Lord, teach us to pray.”
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Billy Graham
“I believe America has gone a long way down the wrong road. If we ever needed God’s help, it is now.”
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Billy Graham
“Among young people . . . drinking is for getting drunk. And many go on to become alcoholics.”
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Billy Graham
“An unbelieving world may say otherwise, but so-called “sexual liberation” is actually sexual slavery—slavery to our own lusts.”
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Billy Graham
“Worldliness is actually a spirit, an atmosphere, an influence permeating the whole of life and human society, and it needs to be guarded against constantly and strenuously.”
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Billy Graham
“We can never live this [Christian] life on the highest plane unless we are continually growing and moving forward. You should be closer to God today in heart, soul, and body than at any other time so far in your life.”
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Billy Graham
“The Bible takes the word home with all of its tender associations and sacred memories, and applies it to the hereafter and tells us that heaven is home.”
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Billy Graham
“Every generation has found [the Bible’s] message indispensable, and its influence on individuals and society over the centuries has been enormous.”
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Billy Graham
“Volumes could be written on the problem of [drug] addiction. Millions of barbiturates are swallowed every night to help the nation sleep. Millions of tranquilizers keep us calm during the day. Millions of pep pills wake us up in the morning. The Bible warns that these flights from reality bring no lasting satisfaction.”
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Billy Graham
“No one spoke more about hell than Jesus did, and the hell He came to save men from was not only a hell on earth . . .it was something to come.”
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Billy Graham
“Most of us do not understand nuclear fission, but we accept it . . . Why is it so easy to accept manmade miracles and so difficult to accept the miracles of the Bible?”
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Billy Graham
“Sex-centered magazines litter our newsstands . . . each edition trying to escape new laws from the bottom of the sewers. We put lids on sewer holes. Ought we not to do something about the pornography which is spewing out a polluted river of filth which can destroy us faster than any chemical pollution we seem so worried about?7”
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Billy Graham
