“All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.”
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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
“Although the testimony of my mother’s life helped mold me and taught me how to live, the testimony of her last years and her death gave me insight into how to die.”
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Billy Graham
“Christianity has no shrines to visit, no dusty remains to venerate, no tombs at which to worship.”
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Billy Graham
“I’m afraid most Bibles remain unopened and unread. Don’t let this be true of yours!”
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Billy Graham
“The Word of God is God’s authoritative message to us. It is [the] infallible Book.”
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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
“The greatest need in the world is the transformation of human nature. We need a new heart that will not have lust and greed and hate in it. We need a heart filled with love and peace and joy, and that is why Jesus came into the world.”
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Billy Graham
“The evangelist cannot bring conviction of sin, righteousness, or judgment; that is the Spirit’s work. They cannot convert anyone; that is the Spirit’s work.”
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Billy Graham
“May our prayers today—and every day—be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being!”
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Billy Graham
“The evangelistic ministry is a fight, not a frolic.”
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Billy Graham
“When I quote Scripture, I know I am quoting the very Word of God.”
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Billy Graham
“If our minds and hearts are not filled with God’s truth, something else will take His place: cynicism, occultism, false religions and philosophies, drugs—the list is endless.”
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Billy Graham
“[God] created us free to choose how we would live . . . but leaves us free to pursue our own ends with tragic, natural consequences.”
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Billy Graham
“[Ruth’s] disposition is the same all the time—very sweet and very gracious and very charming. When it comes to spiritual things, my wife has had the greatest influence on my ministry.”
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Billy Graham
