“How can you keep your mind from wandering when you pray? Remember what you are doing: talking to God. If you had the opportunity to talk with the president, I doubt if your mind would wander. [We] have the privilege of talking to someone far greater: the King of kings!”
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Billy Graham
“The Word does not change. The Dead Sea scrolls, archeology, modern science—they do not change the Bible; they confirm it.”
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Billy Graham
“It is the presence of sin that prevents man from being truly happy.”
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Billy Graham
“Don’t be a half-Christian. There are too many of such in the world. The world has a profound respect for people who are sincere in their faith.”
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Billy Graham
“We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.”
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Billy Graham
“We do not have a paradise on earth; it is riddled with so much sin and disease.”
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Billy Graham
“The church is in turmoil today. The church is not to reflect the world but to be a portrait of Jesus Christ.”
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Billy Graham
“A Christian funeral should be a coronation ceremony, a statement to the world about eternal life.”
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Billy Graham
“Jesus made everything so simple and we have made it so complicated. He spoke to the people in short sentences and everyday words, illustrating His messages with never-to-be forgotten stories.”
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Billy Graham
“We live in an upside-down world, in which people hate what they should love and love what they should hate.”
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Billy Graham
“The faithful Christian steward acknowledges that God owns all he has, and it is his responsibility to manage and dispose of his possessions in a way that is acceptable to the Lord.”
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Billy Graham
“Parents do overindulge their children, giving them a profusion of material things . . . without the stabilizing effects of earning one’s way, of making decisions, of sweating hard to attain some kind of goal, young people are grievously handicapped.”
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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
“Prayer is for every moment of our lives, not just for times of suffering or joy. Prayer is really a place, a place where you meet God in genuine conversation.”
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Billy Graham
“One of the real tests of Christian character is to be found in the lives we live from day to day.”
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Billy Graham
