Billy Graham Quotes

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The Holy Spirit gives liberty to the Christian, direction to the worker, discernment to the teacher, power to the Word, and fruit to faithful service. He reveals the things of Christ.

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There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

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A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution.

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If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.

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Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.

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Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will.

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Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.

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To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?

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May our prayers today, and every day, be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being.

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The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing of circumstances and most bitter environment.

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When our faith becomes nothing more than a series of rules and regulations, joy flees and our love for Christ grows cold.

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Faith is loved and honored by God more than any other single thing.

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The way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.

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If you want the perfect plan that God has for your life, you will have to go by way of Calvary to get it.

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Hundreds of passages point to a time of judgment for every person who has ever lived-none will escape. If you took all the references to judgment out of the Bible, you would have little Bible left.

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God can use a sensitive Christian to be a rich blessing in the life of one who knows pain and sorrow.

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The only place we can find a clear, unmistakable message is in the Word of God, which we call the Bible.

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Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!

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God undertook the most dramatic rescue operation in cosmic history. He determined to save the human race from self-destruction, and He sent His Son Jesus Christ to salvage and redeem them. The work of man's redemption was accomplished at the cross.

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Do you want to trust your life in God's pocket or keep it in your own?

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I have never been quite sure who controls the weather. Although we always prayed for clear skies, I have had to preach in all kinds of storms.

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A compass is narrow-minded-it always points to the magnetic north... We must discipline ourselves, personally, to fight any deviation from the course Jesus set for us. We cannot be tolerant of any other course.

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Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.

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Jesus Christ opened heaven's door for us by His death on the cross.

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A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Are you unstable about your relationship to Christ?

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Jesus used the carefree attitude of the birds to underscore the fact that worrying is unnatural. I am learning in my own life, day by day, to keep my mind centered on Christ.

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No matter who you are or what your life has been like so far, the rest of your life's journey can be different. With God's help you can begin again.

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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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Sin was conquered on the cross. Christ's death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph.

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We do not understand the intricate pattern of the stars in their courses, but we know that He who created them does, and that just as surely as He guides them, He is charting a safe course for us.

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