“Dishonesty is never justified. God will never approve, and even your own conscience will rise up to condemn you sooner or later.”
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Billy Graham
“We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.”
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Billy Graham
“It is the presence of sin that prevents man from being truly happy.”
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Billy Graham
“Scripture makes it clear that our first love is always to be for our Lord.”
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Billy Graham
“No matter how much you exercise, no matter how many vitamins or health foods you eat, no matter how low your cholesterol, you will still die—someday. If you knew the moment and manner of your death in advance, would you order your life differently?”
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Billy Graham
“Once God leads you to make a decision, don’t draw back. Instead, trust His leading, and believe He goes before you—because He does.”
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Billy Graham
“[It] is well and good when our convictions are based upon the “Thou shalts” and the “Thou shalt nots” of Scripture rather than our own ideas.”
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Billy Graham
“When I quote Scripture, I know I am quoting the very Word of God.”
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Billy Graham
“God promises no easy life or days without troubles, trials, difficulties, and temptations. He never promises that life will be perfect. He does not call His children to a playground, but to a battleground.”
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Billy Graham
“God judges mankind by the standard of the only God-man who ever lived, Jesus Christ. Jesus, the innocent Lamb of God, stands between our sin and the judgment of God the Father.”
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Billy Graham
“Drinking and other forms of body-wrecking pleasures are signs of weakness rather than manliness. It takes a better man to live a clean life—free from the stimulants, depressants, and drugs—than to be artificially [stimulated].”
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Billy Graham
“It is unfair to attribute virtues beyond a person’s true character.”
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Billy Graham
“It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies.”
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Billy Graham
“The [Bible’s] message is concerned with earth dwellers, their origin, the reason for their existence, the cause of their misery, and the plan of redemption for a fallen race.”
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Billy Graham
“The men who followed Jesus were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up.”
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Billy Graham
