“In some churches today and on some religious television programs, we see the attempt to make Christianity popular and pleasant. We have taken the cross away and substituted cushions.”
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Billy Graham
“In Houston, Texas, a man was born again in one of our meetings. He owned a liquor store. The next morning he had a sign on the front of his door saying, “Out of business.”
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Billy Graham
“In the world in which we live, we give most attention to satisfying the appetites of the body and practically none to the soul . . . We become fat physically and materially, while spiritually we are lean, weak, and anemic.”
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Billy Graham
“My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.”
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Billy Graham
“Without dark clouds in our lives we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.”
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Billy Graham
“Ninety-five percent of the difficulties you will experience as a Christian can be traced to a lack of Bible study and reading.”
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Billy Graham
“Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve” (24:15).”
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Billy Graham
“Christianity is not an insurance policy against life’s ills and troubles.”
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Billy Graham
“Make use of this tool of communication by which God speaks to us—namely, the Bible! Read it, study it, memorize it. It will change your entire life. It is not like any other book. It is a “living” book that works its way into your heart, mind, and soul.”
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Billy Graham
“Fear can banish faith, but faith can banish fear.”
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Billy Graham
“No form of government has been able to establish righteousness, justice, and peace, the three elements without which we can never have continued national prosperity or international peace.”
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Billy Graham
“Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.”
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Billy Graham
“If you have been harboring anger or bitterness or jealousy in your heart toward someone—a parent, an ex-spouse, a boss—hand it over to Christ, and ask Him to help you let it go.”
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Billy Graham
“Church is not for pretenders and performers. Church is a place for pastors to preach principles of the faith in order to prepare believers to face the storms of life on the stage of an unbelieving world.”
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Billy Graham
