Billy Graham - God Quotes

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The great comfort in knowing that angels minister to believers in Christ is that God Himself sends them to us.

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Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word.

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God can take anything that happens to us-even bad things-and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person-if we let Him.

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Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn't in you.

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Robots do not love. God created us with the capacity to love. Love is based upon one's right to choose to love. We cannot force others to love us. We can make them serve us or obey us. But true love is founded upon one's freedom to choose to respond.

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Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!

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Don't let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door - if we seek it.

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Our days are numbered. One of the primary goals in our lives should be to prepare for our last day. The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives. What preparations should we be making now? The greatest waste in all of our earth, which cannot be recycled or reclaimed, is our waste of the time that God has given us each day.

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You cannot come to Christ unless the Spirit of God brings you. But what if you ignore His warnings? Then you are in the gravest danger, for some day God will no longer be speaking to you. Then it will be too late. Come to Christ while there is still time. Christ, God's greater Ark, stands ready to welcome you to safety today.

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Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful.

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Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.

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The word of God teaches that Christians suffer in order that they might glorify God in their lives.

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The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God.

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Fear can paralyze us and keep us from believing God and stepping out in faith. The devil loves a fearful Christian!

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I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.

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As this New Year begins, ask God to help you tune your life every day to His Word, so you can bring harmony and joy to those around you.

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[There are] seven gifts God gives you when you commit your life to Christ: a new relationship, a new citizenship, a new family, a new purpose, a new power, a new destiny, and a new journey.

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If you are ignorant of God's Word, you will always be ignorant of God's will.

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Your salvation depends on what [Christ] has done for you, not on what you do for Him. It isn't your hold on God that saves you. It's His hold on you.

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God will not force himself upon us against our will. If we want his love, we need to believe in him. We need to make a definite, positive act of commitment and surrender to the love of God. No one can do it for us.

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While we do not place our faith directly in angels, we should place it in the God who rules the angels; then we can have peace.

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Salvation is an act of God. It is initiated by God, wrought by God, and sustained by God.

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God's holiness demands that sin be punished - but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.

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Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God.

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No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you.

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When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.

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"Salvation is always "good news." It is news of God's love and forgiveness-adoption into His family- fellowship with His people-freedom from the penalty of sin- liberation from the power of sin."

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Why should we give God thanks? Because everything we have comes from God.

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Our valleys may be filled with foes and tears; but we can lift our eyes to the hills to see God and the angels, heaven's spectators, who support us according to God's infinite wisdom as they prepare our welcome home.

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The Evangelistic Harvest is always urgent. The destiny of men and of nations is always being decided. Every generation is strategic. We are not responsible for the past generation, and we cannot bear the full responsibility for the next one; but we do have our generation. God will hold us responsible as to how well we fulfill our responsibilities to this age and take advantage of our opportunities.

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