“Sin is often, if not always, the perversion of something good. In the midst of all our sinning, though, God is willing to forgive us, change us,
and give us a new power to overcome that sin.”
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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
“We must repent of our prayerlessness. We must make prayer our priority. Even our churches today have gotten away from prayer meetings.”
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Billy Graham
“Pleasures are the things that appeal to our flesh and to our lust. But joy is something else. Joy runs deep.”
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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
“Your faith may be just a little thread. It may be small and weak, but act on that faith. It does not matter how big your faith is, but rather, where your faith is.”
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Billy Graham
“If we who have the Holy Spirit living and working within us falter and fail, what hope is there for the rest of the world?”
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Billy Graham
“You can have religion but not know Christ. It’s having Christ that counts.”
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Billy Graham
“The only place we can find a clear, i unmistakable message is in the Word of God [the Bible].”
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Billy Graham
“World events are moving very rapidly now. I pick up the Bible in one hand, and I pick up the newspaper in the other. And I read almost the same words in the newspaper as I read in the Bible. It’s being fulfilled every day round about us.”
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Billy Graham
“Do not be content to skim through a chapter [of the Bible] merely to satisfy your conscience. Hide the Word of God in your heart.”
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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
“When disappointment or tragedy or suffering strikes, we have a decision to make: Will we turn away from God, or will we turn toward Him? Which road will we take? One road leads to doubt, anger, bitterness, fear, hopelessness, and despair.
The other leads to hope, comfort, peace, strength, and joy.”
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Billy Graham
“Your life is intricately woven into the lives of scores and hundreds of others around you. Consider the variety of lives that you influence in one day. Somewhere within your circle of contacts someone is being hurt. Are you aware of it?”
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Billy Graham
“Renewal is brought by the Holy Spirit. Believers will learn what it means to minister to one another and build each other up. No longer will our lives seem ordinary and indistinguishable from the rest of the world.”
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Billy Graham