“I’m not a great preacher, and I don’t claim to be a great preacher . . . I’m an ordinary preacher, just communicating the Gospel in the best way I know how.”
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Billy Graham
“The cross shows the seriousness of our sin—
but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.”
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Billy Graham
“O God! There are many things in [the Bible] I do not understand . . . I am going to accept this as Thy Word—by faith! I’m going to allow faith to go beyond my intellectual questions and doubts, and I will believe this to be Your inspired Word.”
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Billy Graham
“Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together. What our young people want to see in their elders is integrity, honesty, truthfulness, and faith. What they hate most of all is hypocrisy and phoniness . . . Let them see us doing what we would like them to do.”
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Billy Graham
“There are many irritations in life. They become prime opportunities for Satan to lead us into evil passion. Keep anger clear of bitterness, spite, or hatred.”
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Billy Graham
“We can trust the Bible because it points us to the most important events in human history: the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
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Billy Graham
“Work isn’t only earning a living; work gives us a sense of purpose and worth and opportunities for companionship.”
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Billy Graham
“Grief which is not dealt with properly can cause us to lose our perspective on life.”
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Billy Graham
“We have glamorized vice and minimized virtue. We have played down gentleness, manners, and morals—while we have played up rudeness, savagery, and vice . . . and the philosophy of “might is right.”
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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
“The greatest vision of sin that a person can
ever receive is to look at the cross.”
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Billy Graham
“We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer.”
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Billy Graham
“[Our] problems boil down to one of moral choices.
God wanted a world based on moral values,
thus He created mankind with the ability to respond to moral choices.
Faced with the moral option of living selfishly or unselfishly, people can and do make wrong decisions. We are free to choose, but we reap the consequences of bad moral decisions.”
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Billy Graham
“Christianity cannot expect the world to live the truths of the Gospel until it has the life that the Gospel provides in Christ. We Christians ought to be light and salt in the society in which we live.”
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Billy Graham
“To be a disciple is to be committed to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and committed to following Him every day. To be a disciple is also to be disciplined in our bodies, minds, and souls.”
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Billy Graham
