“Conscience is the detective that watches the direction of our steps and decries every conscious transgression.”
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Billy Graham
“The world is not a permanent home, it is only a temporary dwelling.”
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Billy Graham
“Christians should seek after holiness—without which no man shall see the Lord. Let us seek ardently the kind of life that reflects the beauty of Jesus and marks us as being what saints ought to be!”
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Billy Graham
“Christianity has become so respectable and so conventional that it is now insipid. The salt has lost its flavor.”
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Billy Graham
“Many times I have been driven to prayer. When I was in Bible school I didn’t know what to do with my life. I used to walk the streets . . . and pray, sometimes for hours at a time. In His timing, God answered those prayers, and since then prayer has been an essential part of my life.”
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Billy Graham
“True conversion will involve the mind, the affection, and the will. There have been thousands of people who have been intellectually converted to Christ . . .but they have never been really converted to Him.”
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Billy Graham
“When we approach the Bible as history and biography, we approach the Bible in the wrong spirit. We must read the Bible, not primarily as historians seeking information, but as men and women seeking God.”
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Billy Graham
“Our dress, our posture, our actions should all be for the honor and glory of Christ. Much of our talk as Christians is secular, not spiritual. It is easy to fall into the conversational conformity of the world and spend an evening discussing politics, new cars, and the latest entertainment. We often forget that we are to edify one another with holy conversation and that our conversation should be on heavenly, and not exclusively on earthly things.”
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Billy Graham
“Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilty conscience were worse than prison bars.”
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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
“In taking our human nature upon Himself, [Jesus] showed us what we might become, what God intended us to be.”
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Billy Graham
“God’s Word not only gives authority to one’s ministry; it provides a solid foundation for one’s life.”
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Billy Graham
“We do not fail to enjoy the fruit of the Spirit because we live in a sea of corruption; we fail to do so because the sea of corruption is in us.”
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Billy Graham
“Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus’ gift—the gift that liberates souls from sin’s power.”
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Billy Graham
“Anger flees when the Spirit’s fruit fills our hearts.”
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Billy Graham
