"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened."
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Billy Graham quotes (page 2 of 34)
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"We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care."
"Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse."
"Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil - it has no point."
"If you are ignorant of God's Word, you will always be ignorant of God's will."
"My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him."
"God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'"
"A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener."
"Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ."
"When we come to Christ, we’re no longer the most important person in the world to us; Christ is. Instead of living only for ourselves, we have a higher goal: to live for Jesus."
"The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'"
"Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence."
"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."
"Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain."
"The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless."
"The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise."
"... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail."
"We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side."
"The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West . . . But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace."
"Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering."