“Don’t let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another—if we seek it.”
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Billy Graham
“One of life’s mysteries is why two children growing up in the same home sometimes take radically different paths—one following Christ, the other rebellious and scornful. Yet it happens.”
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Billy Graham
“I am afraid the church is trying to speak out on too many issues that really do not concern the church. There are certain issues we know to be wrong—racial injustice, crime, gambling, dishonesty, pornography. On these matters we must thunder forth as the prophets of God.”
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Billy Graham
“Many people plan financially for retirement—but not spiritually and emotionally.”
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Billy Graham
“Think about the holes children make when they dig in the sand on the seashore. When the waves come in, the holes are swallowed up by the ocean. Similarly, when we know Christ, our physical death is overwhelmed by the love and grace of God. Death is swallowed up in the victory of Christ.”
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Billy Graham
“My wife often said that “a good marriage consists of two good forgivers.”
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Billy Graham
“[Angels] crisscross the Old and New Testaments, being mentioned directly or indirectly nearly 300 times.”
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Billy Graham
“A call for national and individual repentance is urgently needed today, or judgment is certain to fall.”
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Billy Graham
“God has already set the date [for judgment]. You may make and break appointments in this life, but this is one appointment you are going to keep.”
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Billy Graham
“We are never to do anything of which we are not perfectly clear and certain. If you have a doubt about that particular thing that is bothering you, as to whether it is worldly or not, the best policy is “don’t do it.”
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Billy Graham
“Drunkenness is not a new vice. Its ravages have always been a scourge on the human race . . .Alcohol is a killer, a murderer.”
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Billy Graham
“Every area of our lives is to be under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. And that means the searchlight of God’s Word must penetrate every corner of our lives.”
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Billy Graham
“What happens when lying and stealing and immorality and murder become the norm? The result can be summarized in one word: chaos.”
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Billy Graham
“If you are ignorant of God’s Word, you will always be ignorant of God’s will.”
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Billy Graham
“Worldliness is an inner attitude that puts self at the center of life instead of God.”
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Billy Graham
