"We're all so busy. We race and race. Life is a sprint. We want to get 'there' so badly. But I wonder if we even know what to do when we actually get 'there'."
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Billy Graham quotes (page 25 of 34)
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"Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless."
"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."
"I don't think I get angry."
"Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is."
"I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly. Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine. Like a shot of adrenaline, it floods the spirit with vitality."
"Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events."
"OUR INSPIRATION: Billy Graham, July 2, 1962 “World events are moving very rapidly now. I pick up the Bible in one hand, and I pick up the newspaper in the other. And I read almost the same words in the newspaper as I read in the Bible. It’s being fulfilled every day round about us."
"I go and I keep friends with [Abe] Rosenthal at the New York Times and people of that sort, you know. And all - I mean, not all the Jews, but a lot of the Jews are great friends of mine, they swarm around me and are friendly to me because they know that I'm friendly with Israel. But they don't know how I really feel about what they are doing to this country. And I have no power, no way to handle them, but I would stand up if under proper circumstances."
"My calling is to preach the love of God and the forgiveness of God and the fact that he does forgive us."
"Wherever the Gospel is preached, no matter how crudely, there are bound to be results."
"There are many things that I don't understand."
"The most prominent place in hell is reserved for those who are neutral on the great issues of life."
"Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer."
"A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Are you unstable about your relationship to Christ?"
"The only place we can find a clear, unmistakable message is in the Word of God, which we call the Bible."
"There come times when we have to fight for peace."
"I don't go out and preach because of my desire as much as I go out to fulfill the command of Christ. He said, "Go!" to all of His disciples, and we're to go and witness to Christ by the way we live and by our verbal witness about the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ and about the need to repent and believe. I've never had any doubts about my call."
"I want people to remember me that I was faithful, faithful to the gospel, faithful to the call that God gave me. And when I get to heaven, I'm going to ask him why he called me, because I was much used to milking cows and working on the farm than I was preaching."
"I started out as the president of a small college in Minnesota in 1947. And I had five years of experience at the college. Then we went to Los Angeles. And the press got to what we were doing. And I went to Boston, which is my next series of meetings. That was in 1950."