“We can hold nothing back [from God]. He must control and dominate us [wholly]. It is a surrender without any conditions attached. This surrender is a definite and conscious act on our part in obedience to the Word of God.”
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Billy Graham
“Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.”
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Billy Graham
“God isn’t finished with you when you retire! When we know Christ, we never retire from His service.”
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Billy Graham
“My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again.”
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Billy Graham
“No clergyman however brilliant, no evangelist no matter how eloquent or compelling, can bring about the revival we need. Only the Holy Spirit can do this.”
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Billy Graham
“Prayer is not just asking. It is listening for God’s orders.”
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Billy Graham
“Sometimes life touches one person with a bouquet and another with a thorn bush, But the first may find a wasp in the flowers, and the second may discover roses among the thorns.”
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Billy Graham
“The wheels of [God’s] mercy and justice move quietly and silently, but they do move.”
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Billy Graham
“Death of the righteous . . . is not to be feared or shunned. It is the shadowed threshold to the palace of God.”
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Billy Graham
“Affliction may be for our edification and Christian development.”
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Billy Graham
“To be a Christian is not a pious pose. It is not a long list of restrictions. Christianity flings open the windows to the real joy of living. Those who have been truly converted to Jesus Christ know the meaning of abundant living.”
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Billy Graham
“Christ’s church is a place to grow people up in the Lord, not to enhance our leisure time.”
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Billy Graham
“Every generation has found [the Bible’s] message indispensable, and its influence on individuals and society over the centuries has been enormous.”
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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
“Learn to take sin seriously—be on guard against it and resist its tug, fight its power. But most of all learn to take the Holy Spirit seriously, calling on Him to help you overcome sin’s power and live a holy and godly life.”
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Billy Graham
