“Evangelism is not a calling reserved exclusively for the clergy. I believe one of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism.”
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Billy Graham
“Ruth once wrote, “Dear Journal, Never let a single day pass without saying an encouraging word to each child . . .‘More people fail for lack of encouragement,’ someone wrote, ‘than for any other reason.”
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Billy Graham
“We don’t live in an ideal world, but in a world dominated by sinful, selfish desires.”
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Billy Graham
“I believe integrity can be restored to a society one person at a time. The choice belongs to each of us.”
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Billy Graham
“The Bible warns us against greed and selfishness, it does encourage frugality and thrift.”
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Billy Graham
“Too many times we are concerned with how much, instead of how little, like this [world] we can become.”
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Billy Graham
“I look upon it as a lost day when I have not had a good time over the Word of God.”
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Billy Graham
“[While] disappointment and failure aren’t identical, they often occur together, and both can hold us back from God’s best for our lives.”
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Billy Graham
“Christianity is not primarily a matter of externals, nevertheless it does find expression in conversation, habits, recreation, emphasis, and ambitions to be noted in our daily life.”
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Billy Graham
“We get angry when others hurt us, both by what they say and what they do. We get angry when we don’t get our own way or our plans and dreams are frustrated. Anger may arise in an instant, erupting like a volcano and raining destruction on everyone in sight. Often, anger simmers just below the surface, sometimes for a lifetime. Like a corrosive acid, this kind of anger eats away at our bodies and souls, yet we may not even be aware of its presence.”
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Billy Graham
“Life has its share of joys and laughter—but we also know life’s road is often very rough. Temptations assail us; people disappoint us; illness and age weaken us; tragedies and sorrows ambush us; evil and injustice overpower us. Life is hard—but God is good, and heaven is real!”
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Billy Graham
“Guilt is not all bad. Without it there is nothing to drive a person toward self-examination and toward God for forgiveness.”
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Billy Graham
“Christ . . . didn’t come to treat symptoms. He came to get at the very heart of man’s disease.”
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Billy Graham
“Learn from your disappointments and failures and with God’s help seek to overcome them. Ask yourself, could I have done anything to prevent this? Were my hopes and dreams unrealistic, or were my motives wrong?
Is there a new path God wants me to explore?”
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Billy Graham
