“Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one ever bothered to ask!”
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Billy Graham
“The broken home has become the number one social problem of America, and could ultimately lead to the destruction of our civilization . . . it does not make screaming headlines; but, like termites, it is eating away at the heart and core of the American structure.”
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Billy Graham
“This self-confident generation has produced more alcoholics, more drug addicts, more criminals, more wars, more broken homes, more assaults, more embezzlements, more murders, and more suicides . . .it is time all of us . . . begin to take stock of our failures, blunders, and costly mistakes. It is about time that we place less confidence in ourselves and more trust and faith in God.”
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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
“Christianity is not an accretion, it is not something added. It is a new total outlook which is satisfied with nothing less than penetration to the furthest corners of the mind and the understanding.”
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Billy Graham
“The world does need changing, society needs changing, the nation needs changing, but we never will change it until we ourselves are changed.”
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Billy Graham
“It could be said that going to church will not make one a Christian. But . . . refusing to fellowship with believers will not make you one either.”
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Billy Graham
“If people paid more attention to death, eternity, and judgment, there would be more holy living on earth.”
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Billy Graham
“Every destructive emotion bears its own harvest, but anger’s fruit is the most bitter of all.”
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Billy Graham
“To many people, the mention of the blood of Christ is distasteful. However, on [a] visit to Mayo Clinic I noticed that at each reception desk there were pamphlets entitled A Gift of Life, urging people to donate blood.
Anyone who has gone through surgery and looked up to see
the bag of blood dripping slowly into his veins,
realizes with gratitude the life-giving property of blood
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Billy Graham
“If we have our eyes upon ourselves, our problems, and our pain, we cannot lift our eyes upward. A child looks up when he’s walking with his father, and the same should be true for the Christian.”
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Billy Graham
“No one spoke more about hell than Jesus did, and the hell He came to save men from was not only a hell on earth . . .it was something to come.”
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Billy Graham
“The world may argue against a creed, but it cannot argue against changed lives.”
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Billy Graham
“When I quote Scripture, I know I am quoting the very Word of God.”
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Billy Graham
“The way in which we react to hurts and disappointments influences the shaping of our personalities.”
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Billy Graham
