“God’s will is for us to commit our lives to Christ and follow Him. God’s will also is that we avoid sin.”
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Billy Graham
“The late Dr. Harry Ironside once said, “Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions.” To be sure, we must deplore wickedness, evil, and wrongdoing, but our commendable intolerance of sin too often develops into a deplorable intolerance of sinners. Jesus hates sin but loves the sinner.”
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Billy Graham
“We’ve tried calling sin “errors” or mistakes” or “poor judgment,” but sin itself has stayed the same. No matter how we try to salve our conscience, we’ve known all along that men are still sinners; and the results of sin are still disease, disappointment, disillusionment, despair, and death.”
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Billy Graham
“Don’t be bound by the past and its failures. But don’t forget its lessons either.”
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Billy Graham
“Our creativity, our inner sense of right and wrong, our ability to love and to reason—all bear witness to the fact that God created us in His image. The Bible says God “has not left himself without testimony” [Acts 14:17 NIV].”
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Billy Graham
“Prayer and Bible study are inseparably linked. Effective prayer is born out of the prompting of God’s Spirit as we read His Word.”
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Billy Graham
“That “the Spirit Himself intercedes” indicates that it is actually God pleading, praying, and mourning through us.”
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Billy Graham
“Man’s nature and destiny are revealed in the Scriptures.”
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Billy Graham
“Christ’s church is a place to grow people up in the Lord, not to enhance our leisure time.”
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Billy Graham
“Obedience is the master key to effectual prayer.”
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Billy Graham
“Jesus taught that there is an eternal destiny for each individual—either heaven or hell (John 5:25–29). The eternal destiny of each individual depends on a decision made in this life (Luke 16:19–31)—to be followed by a life of obedience.”
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Billy Graham
“God will never—never—lead you to do something that is contrary to His written Word, the Bible.”
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Billy Graham
“Death reduces all men to the same rank. It strips the rich of his millions and the poor man of his rags . . .Death knows no age limits, no partiality. It is a thing that all men fear.”
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Billy Graham
