“In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.”
— Billy Graham
“The word ‘romance,’ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.”
“When my time to die comes an angel will be there to comfort me. He will give me peace and joy even at that most critical hour, and usher me into the presence of God, and I will dwell with the Lord forever. Thank God for the ministry of His blessed angels.”
“If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.”
“The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.”
“The most prominent place in hell is reserved for those who are neutral on the great issues of life.”
“The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.”
“I have many friends that don’t claim to be followers of Christ. As far as day-to-day friendship and being together at various functions, I don’t think that there should be any difference at all.”
“God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.”
“If you know Christ, you don’t need to beg for the Holy Spirit to come into your life; He is already there- whether you “feel” His presence or not. Don’t confuse the Holy Spirit with an emotional feeling or a particular type of spiritual experience.”
“Be careful before leaving someone in a sorrowing situation. Say a word of prayer with them and share even a brief word of encouragement from the Scriptures.”
“There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.”
“If it weren’t for God’s grace, you and I wouldn’t be able to live for even one more minute.”
“The greatest miracle of the Bible is that the prophets of Israel could keep a religion as clean as a hounds tooth amid all the corruption and idolatry of the nations surrounding them.”
“No nation is ever taller than when on its knees...”
“Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.”
“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.”
“Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I’m really looking forward to that.”
“The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.”
“I don’t have many sad days.”
“The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I’m here.”
“The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.”
“Those who have a true love of freedom will do everything in their power to keep the freedom that they have.”
“Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven – while Shea would still have a job leading worship.”
“I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.”
“The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.”
“It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put Jesus on the cross – it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer His death.”
“The Bible teaches that history began in the Middle East, and someday history will end in the Middle East.”
“A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.”
“Heaven will be the perfection we’ve always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.”
“I’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.”
“The thing that I remember the most in my childhood was the love of family and the discipline in the family. My father and mother both were disciplinarians, and they didn’t mind using the rod. Maybe because I was the oldest child I always felt I got much more of it than anybody else.”
“Serve God and live; serve these other gods and died.”
“Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.”
“Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.”
“Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.”
“God’s hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good.”
“God’s hand never slips.”
“I am convinced that these heavenly beings exist and that they provide unseen aid on our behalf.”
“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.”
“There are many things that I don’t understand.”
“Don’t apologize for who you are and what you’ve done in the past. Be who you are and do what you do.”
“In the founding era of our country, it was not organized religion but personal faith that brought focus and unified the early leadership-maybe an unspoken faith in God, and certain values that came with that faith. So in that sense, we cannot discount, in my judgment, religious faith in politics.”
“In heaven I’ll wish with all my heart that I could reclaim a thousandth part of the time I’ve let slip through my fingers, that I could call back those countless conversations which could have glorified my Lord-but didn’t.”
“God has not promised to bless my thoughts, but He has promised to bless His Word.”
“We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.”
“World travel and getting to know clergy of all denominations has helped mold me into an ecumenical being. We’re separated by theology and, in some instances, culture and race, but all that means nothing to me any more.”
“I only know that when Jesus is with a person, that one can endure the deepest suffering and somehow emerge a better and stronger Christian because of it.”
“If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.”
“It takes suffering to widen the soul.”
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