“One of the worst things we can do is allow our children to grow up thinking they don’t need to keep any rules. A spoiled child becomes a spoiled adult.”
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Billy Graham
“The highest form or worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.”
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Billy Graham
“Our prayers must be in accordance with the will of God for the simple reason that God knows better what is good for us than we know ourselves.”
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Billy Graham
“Grief comes with many losses. Whatever its cause, grief will come to all of us.”
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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
“It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.”
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Billy Graham
“God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better.”
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Billy Graham
“Conscience is a vigilant eye before which each imagination, thought, and act is held up for either censure or approval . . .There is no greater proof of the existence of a moral law and Lawgiver in the universe than this little light of the soul. It is God’s voice to the inner man.”
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Billy Graham
“No matter how we may rationalize the practice [of homosexuality] . . . Romans 1 makes it clearly the product of a reprobate mind . . .I am not exonerating all heterosexual activity . . . When we come to Christ, we are called upon to repent of our sins and no longer to practice the ungodly patterns of living.”
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Billy Graham
“Today an educated, civilized society is turning its face while thousands of unborn babies are being killed. God Himself, if not history, will judge this greater holocaust.”
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Billy Graham
“The men who followed Jesus were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up.”
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Billy Graham
“Faith in Christ is voluntary. A person cannot be coerced, bribed, or tricked into trusting Jesus. God will not force His way into your life. The Holy Spirit will do everything possible to disturb you, draw you, love you—but finally it is your personal decision.”
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Billy Graham
“Christianity has no shrines to visit, no dusty remains to venerate, no tombs at which to worship.”
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Billy Graham
“Unless the church quickly recovers the authoritative biblical message, we may witness the spectacle of millions of Christians going outside the institutional church to find spiritual food.”
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Billy Graham
“In many homes and among so-called educated people—it has become fashionable to joke about the Bible and to regard it more as a dust-catcher than as the living Word of God.”
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Billy Graham
