“When I preach—no matter where it is in the world—I can always count on five areas of human need that afflict all peoples. Emptiness, loneliness, guilt, fear of death, deep-seated insecurity.”
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Billy Graham
“Learn from your disappointments and failures and with God’s help seek to overcome them. Ask yourself, could I have done anything to prevent this? Were my hopes and dreams unrealistic, or were my motives wrong?
Is there a new path God wants me to explore?”
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Billy Graham
“We have seen moral and religious leaders,
men who claim to be followers of Jesus,
fall into disgrace in the eyes of God and man, and worst of all we have seen the Gospel of Jesus Christ and twisted and distorted it by false teachers to accommodate the destructive morals and secular behavior of these times.”
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Billy Graham
“Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.”
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Billy Graham
“One final reason for choosing God’s path is of supreme importance: It leads us home.”
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Billy Graham
“The Scripture teaches that popularity with the world means death. Satan’s most effective tool is conformity and compromise. He is aware that one man standing in the midst of a pagan people
can move more people in the direction of God than thousands of insipid professors of religion.”
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Billy Graham
“The fiercest storm is taking place in some of our churches—the unbelief and disobedience of God’s Word.”
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Billy Graham
“We glorify Christ when we live for God—trusting, loving, and obeying Him.”
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Billy Graham
“Within the New Testament, there is no indication that Christians should expect to be healthy, wealthy, and successful in this present age.”
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Billy Graham
“Jesus was born with the cross darkening His pathway . . . From the cradle to the cross, [Jesus’] purpose was to die.”
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Billy Graham
“Our creativity, our inner sense of right and wrong, our ability to love and to reason—all bear witness to the fact that God created us in His image. The Bible says God “has not left himself without testimony” [Acts 14:17 NIV].”
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Billy Graham
“God isn’t finished with you when you retire! When we know Christ, we never retire from His service.”
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Billy Graham
“Our emotions can lie to us, and we need to counter our emotions with truth.”
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Billy Graham
“The devil has successfully fooled many churches, convincing them to follow the world. Biblical standards have been compromised by convenient social theories.”
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Billy Graham
“We don’t need to be crippled any longer by the disease of sin—because God has provided the cure.”
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Billy Graham
