“Satan is both a fashion designer and an interior designer. He first appeals to the eye and then shouts, “Gotcha!” Then he goes to work on the “inside job.”
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Billy Graham
“Prayer is not our using of God; it more often puts us in the position where God can use us.”
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Billy Graham
“Popularity and adulation are far more dangerous for the Christian than persecution. It is easy when all goes smoothly to lose our
sense of balance and perspective.”
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Billy Graham
“Someday this life will end, but for the Christian death also marks a beginning—the beginning of a new life with God that will last forever.”
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Billy Graham
“In earlier periods of history, adolescence was virtually unknown . . . Today, the span between childhood and adulthood may extend over ten years. Deferred adulthood is synonymous with deferred responsibility.”
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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
“A seminary professor I once knew told his students, “Never preach about hell without tears in your eyes.”
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Billy Graham
“The main “food” God has given to strengthen us is the Bible, the Word of God.”
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Billy Graham
“The converted person will love the good he once hated, and hate the sin he once loved.”
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Billy Graham
“Your greatest contribution to God’s Kingdom work—and to defeating the Enemy’s efforts against this Kingdom—is to keep up your daily devotions; live a clean, honest, humble, Spirit-filled life; trust God to guard and protect you morally, physically, and spiritually; and openly witness for Jesus Christ. Don’t be a pawn of the devil, but a servant of Christ.”
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Billy Graham
“The underlying principle of all Satan’s tactics is deception. He is a crafty and clever camouflager.”
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Billy Graham
“When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.”
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Billy Graham
“A great problem in America is that we have an anemic and watered-down Christianity that has produced an anemic, watered-down, and spineless Christian who is not willing to stand up and be counted on every issue.”
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Billy Graham
“The television, iPod, and Internet have trespassed upon the innocence of America’s children, while preoccupied mothers and dispassionate fathers stare aghast wondering what went wrong. They don’t stop to think of their own contributions to the persuasions influencing their children. After all, where do kids as young as elementary age get money to rent rock videos and the latest rap DVDs?”
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Billy Graham
“The secret of the power of Christianity is not in its ethics. It is not in Christian ideas or philosophy . . .the secret of Christianity is found . . . in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Billy Graham