Billy Graham - God Quotes

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The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.

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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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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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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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The angels minister to God's servants in time of hardship and danger.

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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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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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I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God's love for them in Christ.

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God doesn't owe us anything yet in His grace, He still gives us good things.

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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'

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Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.

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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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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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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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Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!

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Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.

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If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.

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Like a spring of pure water, God's peace in our hearts brings cleansing and refreshment to our minds and bodies

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God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.

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It should not be surprising if people believe easily in a God who makes no demands, but this is not the God of the Bible. Satan has cleverly misled people by whispering that they can believe in Jesus Christ without being changed, but this is the Devil's lie. To those who say you can have Christ without giving anything up, Satan is deceiving you.

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

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God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.

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Living for Christ is a day-to-day going on with Him. It is a continuous dependence upon the Spirit of God. It is believing in His faithfulness.

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God can use the fear that grips the hearts of men today to point them to eternal truths- the truth of God's eternal judgment, and the truth of His eternal love.

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You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.

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God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

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For me, the best time to pray is the very moment a tense situation or an unspiritual attitude overtakes me. God the Holy Spirit is always there, ready to help me gain victory in the spiritual battles I face-big or small.

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

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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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