“Your yearning for God must supersede all other desires. It must be like a gnawing hunger and a burning thirst.”
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Billy Graham
“Ask God to give you a greater hunger for Himself and a deeper desire for His fellowship. Then be honest about whatever is keeping you from prayer, and ask God to help you deal with it.”
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Billy Graham
“Too many times we are concerned with how much, instead of how little, like this [world] we can become.”
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Billy Graham
“Too often we use petty little petitions, oratorical exercises, or the words of others rather than the cries of our inmost being. When you pray, pray!”
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Billy Graham
“Do not be content to skim through a chapter [of the Bible] merely to satisfy your conscience. Hide the Word of God in your heart.”
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Billy Graham
“Idolatrous beliefs have eroded the foundations of truth. Whether ancient or modern, all have posed alternatives to the biblical way of approaching God.”
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Billy Graham
“The world doesn’t really have much respect for Christians who adopt its fashions and ideas. It is inclined to regard them with contempt—to write them off either as cowards who are ashamed of their faith or as frauds whose profession is not sincere.”
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Billy Graham
“A few years ago, honesty was the hallmark of a man of good character. But it’s been set aside for an “It’s all right if you don’t get caught” philosophy.”
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Billy Graham
“Faith actually means surrender and commitment to the claims of Christ. It means an acknowledgment of sin and a turning to Christ.”
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Billy Graham
“Our minds must be set always to seek the will of the Lord. Following the progressive discipline revealed through the Bible will result in a walk of obedience to God.”
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Billy Graham
“The greatest waste in all of our earth is our waste of the time God has given us each day.”
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Billy Graham
“The Bible clearly teaches that when we turn our backs on God and choose to disregard His moral laws there are inevitable consequences. Furthermore it is not God who is to blame for the consequences, but the person who has broken His law.”
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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
“Because truth is unpopular does not mean that it should not be proclaimed.”
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Billy Graham
“God’s will is that we would be righteous in our living. God is holy, and the whole scheme of redemption has holiness for its goal.”
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Billy Graham
