“The Bible is to be our basis of authority. We must “by faith” accept [Jesus] as the Son of the living God. This sounds narrow and intolerant, and in a sense it is!”
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Billy Graham
“We have largely lost sight of the holiness and purity of God today. This is one reason why we tolerate sin so easily.”
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Billy Graham
“God—the Bible’s Author—loves you and wants you to be His child through faith in Jesus Christ.”
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Billy Graham
“The Bible is intensely practical, and one of the reasons God gave it to us is so we’ll be better prepared to deal with life’s problems and temptations. All too often we respond to these in ways that don’t reflect Christ . . .when we do that, Satan is the winner and the cause of Christ suffers.”
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Billy Graham
“One result of family failure has been the loss of dignity. No better example can be found than in the use of language. [Language has been reduced to] a four-letter word in movies, on television, in comedy routines, and in real life.”
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Billy Graham
“The word decease literally means “exodus” or “going out.” The imagery is that of the children of Israel leaving Egypt and their former life of bondage, slavery, and hardship for the Promised Land. So death to the Christian is an exodus from the limitations, the burdens, and the bondage of this life.”
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Billy Graham
“The only sin God cannot forgive is the sin of rejecting Christ. Turn to Him in repentance and faith—and He will forgive.”
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Billy Graham
“One of the real tests of Christian character is to be found in the lives we live from day to day.”
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Billy Graham
“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).”
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Billy Graham
“At its deepest level, prayer is fellowship with God: enjoying His company, waiting upon His will, thanking Him for His mercies . . . listening in the silence for what He has to say to us.”
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Billy Graham
“Be attractive and winsome, but do not compromise your convictions for the sake of popularity.”
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Billy Graham
“Scientific discoveries (not theories) are found more and more to fit into the record God has given us in His Word.”
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Billy Graham
“If the church is acceptable to this present age
and is not suffering reproach, then it is not the true church that our Lord founded.”
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Billy Graham
“Although the testimony of my mother’s life helped mold me and taught me how to live, the testimony of her last years and her death gave me insight into how to die.”
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Billy Graham
“Anger flees when the Spirit’s fruit fills our hearts.”
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Billy Graham
