“Daniel and his companions were tempted to forsake their godly heritage but they refused. They even faced a fiery furnace rather than compromise.”
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Billy Graham
“The late Dr. Harry Ironside once said, “Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions.” To be sure, we must deplore wickedness, evil, and wrongdoing, but our commendable intolerance of sin too often develops into a deplorable intolerance of sinners. Jesus hates sin but loves the sinner.”
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Billy Graham
“The one and only choice by which you can be converted is your choice to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as your own personal Lord and Savior. The word “conversion” means simply “turning.”
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Billy Graham
“Peer pressure accounts for much of the promiscuous sex in high schools and colleges. “Conform or get lost.” Since no one enjoys losing friends or being cast out of his own circle, peer pressure—especially during the years of adolescence—is an almost irresistible force.”
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Billy Graham
“It is strange that the world accepts enthusiasm in every realm but the spiritual.”
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Billy Graham
“Grief turns us inward, but compassion turns us outward, and that’s what we need when grief threatens to crush us. The Bible says, “Carry each other’s burdens” [Galatians 6:2 NIV].”
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Billy Graham
“In earlier periods of history, adolescence was virtually unknown . . . Today, the span between childhood and adulthood may extend over ten years. Deferred adulthood is synonymous with deferred responsibility.”
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Billy Graham
“When we are filled with the Spirit of God, obeying God, in His will and quoting Scripture, Satan will be defeated.”
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Billy Graham
“Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.”
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Billy Graham
“Someone has said that death is not a period, but a comma in the story of life.”
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Billy Graham
“Only because Jesus is God and we have confessed Him as Savior and Lord, can He bestow and we receive these benefits, this blessed assurance and hope (see Romans 10:9).”
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Billy Graham
“Christ said there is a happiness in that acknowledgement of spiritual poverty which lets God come into our souls.”
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Billy Graham
“In every true conversion the will of man comes into line with the will of God.”
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Billy Graham
“Earth’s troubles fade in the light of heaven’s hope.”
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Billy Graham
“Only God knows the future and that we are to look to Him—not to the stars or the tea leaves or the lines on the palms of our hands—for our confidence in the future.”
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Billy Graham
