“The cross was designed to defeat Satan, who by deception had obtained squatters’ rights to the title of the earth.”
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Billy Graham
“The Gospel shows people their wounds and bestows on them love. It shows them their bondage and supplies the hammer
to knock away their chains. It shows them their nakedness and provides them the garments of purity. It shows them their poverty and pours into their lives the wealth of heaven. It shows them their sins and points them to the Savior.”
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Billy Graham
“Without Him our daily routine would become tiresome and tedious, a drudgery rather than a joy.”
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Billy Graham
“Jesus Himself was the first missionary . . .He pledged His followers to be missionaries too!”
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Billy Graham
“Statistics indicate that the church is rapidly losing in the population explosion. There are fewer Christians per capita every day.”
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Billy Graham
“If we would take the traits that characterized the Pilgrims and make them our own, we could regain hope. We could recover the spiritual and moral strength that we have lost. We could offer a thrilling challenge to our young people.”
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Billy Graham
“Don’t take your Bible for granted! For centuries ordinary believers had no access to the Bible; Bibles had to be painstakingly copied by hand and were very expensive. The only access most people had to the Bible was by hearing it read in church. The invention of the printing press changed all that, however, and today the Bible is readily available in multiple translations and hundreds of languages around the world.”
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Billy Graham
“The Bible warns us against greed and selfishness, it does encourage frugality and thrift.”
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Billy Graham
“God will never—never—lead you to do something that is contrary to His written Word, the Bible.”
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Billy Graham
“There are those who say that all roads lead to God. But Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” [John 14:6 KJV].”
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Billy Graham
“Our prayers must be in accordance with [God’s] will. He knows better what is good for us than we know ourselves.”
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Billy Graham
“Ninety-five percent of the difficulties you will experience as a Christian can be traced to a lack of Bible study and reading.”
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Billy Graham
“I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly. Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine. Like a shot of adrenaline, it floods the spirit with vitality”
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Billy Graham
“No form of government has been able to establish righteousness, justice, and peace, the three elements without which we can never have continued national prosperity or international peace.”
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Billy Graham