“Every Christian should become an ambassador of Christ . . .every Christian should be so intoxicated with Christ and so filled with holy fervor that nothing could ever quench his [passion] . . .Let us capture some of the magnificent obsession that [the] early Christians had!”
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Billy Graham
“God Himself is the power that makes prayer work.”
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Billy Graham
“Pray because Christ died to give us access to the Father. Pray because God is worthy of our praise. Pray because we need His forgiveness, cleansing, guidance, and protection. Pray because others need our prayers.”
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Billy Graham
“The distinctive feature of Christianity is blood atonement. Without it we cannot be saved. Blood is actually a symbol of the death of Christ.”
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Billy Graham
“We’ve tried calling sin “errors” or mistakes” or “poor judgment,” but sin itself has stayed the same. No matter how we try to salve our conscience, we’ve known all along that men are still sinners; and the results of sin are still disease, disappointment, disillusionment, despair, and death.”
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Billy Graham
“The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.”
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Billy Graham
“The Bible is a living Book and can be trusted for its advice and direction and knowledge of God.”
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Billy Graham
“Man cannot control himself, and if he will not be controlled by Jesus Christ, then he will be controlled by Satan.”
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Billy Graham
“The Lord is not only tender and merciful and full of compassion, but He is also the God of justice, holiness and wrath…Compassion is not complete in itself, but must be accompanied by inflexible justice and wrath against sin and a desire for holiness. What stirs God most is not physical suffering but sin. All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die. God cannot clear the guilty until atonement is made. Mercy is what we need and that is what we receive at the foot of the cross.”
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Billy Graham
“There is hope for the alcoholic: God is able to deliver from this as well as any other addiction.”
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Billy Graham
“Many of the mysteries of God—the heartaches, trials, disappointments, tragedies, and the silence of God in the midst of suffering—will be revealed in heaven.”
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Billy Graham
“Sin also affects the conscience, until one becomes slow to detect the approach of sin.”
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Billy Graham
“Someday your children will leave; you can’t hold on to them or control them forever, nor should you.”
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Billy Graham
“One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.”
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Billy Graham
“When someone hurts us, our natural instinct is to strike back—but when we do, we not only destroy any possibility of reconciliation, but we also allow anger and hate to control us.”
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Billy Graham
