“The devil doesn’t need to invent any new temptations; the old ones work as well as they ever have.”
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Billy Graham
“Prayer is more than a plea, it is a place where we must spend time if we are to learn its power.”
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Billy Graham
“As Christians we are constantly bombarded with attitudes and values which are contrary to biblical teaching.”
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Billy Graham
“What makes us Christians shrug our shoulders when we ought to be flexing our muscles? What makes us apathetic in a day when there are loads to lift, a world to be won, and captives to be set free? Why are so many bored, when the times demand action? Christ told us that in the last days there would be an insipid attitude toward life.”
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Billy Graham
“A real Christian is the one who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.”
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Billy Graham
“Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Deception is everything opposite the truth.”
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Billy Graham
“I missed the joy of seeing our children grow and change. I thank God for watching over them during those years.”
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Billy Graham
“It is strange that men will prepare for everything except death. We prepare for education. We prepare for business. We prepare for our careers. We prepare for marriage. We prepare for old age. We prepare for everything except the moment we are to die.”
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Billy Graham
“Forgiveness is one of the most beautiful words in the human vocabulary. How much pain and unhappy consequences could be avoided if we all learned the meaning of this word!”
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Billy Graham
“Has God designated any one person here on earth to speak with final authority about Him? No—the one Man who could do that lived two thousand years ago, and we crucified Him!”
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Billy Graham
“Be sure that your motive in praying is to glorify God.”
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Billy Graham
“Christians should be a foreign influence, a minority group in a pagan world.”
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Billy Graham
“God is concerned with our imaginations, for they in a large measure determine what kind of persons we are to be.”
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Billy Graham
“Christ never told his disciples that they would get an Academy Award for their performances, but He did tell them to expect to have troubles.”
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Billy Graham
“If you are a true Christian, you will not give way at home to bad temper, impatience, fault-finding, sarcasm, unkindness, suspicion, selfishness, or laziness.”
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Billy Graham
