Billy Graham Quotes - Page 14

Patience graciously, compassionately and with understanding, judges the faults of others without unjust criticism.
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God allows difficulties, inconveniences, trials, and even suffering to come our way for a specific purpose: They help develop the right attitude for the growth of patience.
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Patience is part of true Christlikeness, something we so often admire in others without demanding it of ourselves.
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Patience in our lives springs from God’s power based upon our willingness to learn it.
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We have some of the finest civil rights laws in the world, but they have not solved our racial problems. Why? Because we need a change of heart and attitude, Jesus said, “You must be born again” [John 3:7].
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The human race has the power right now to destroy itself. Jesus Christ is going to save us from ourselves.
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There is only one possible solution to the race problem and that is a vital personal experience with Jesus Christ on the part of [all] races.
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God prescribes the remedy for the ills of the human race. That remedy is personal faith and commitment to Jesus Christ. The remedy is to be born again.
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In Christ the middle wall of partition has been broken down. There is no Jew, no Gentile—no black, white, yellow, or red. We could be one great brotherhood in Jesus Christ. However, until we come to recognize Him as the Prince of Peace and receive His love in our hearts, the racial tensions will increase, racial demands will become more militant, and a great deal of blood will be shed. The race problem could become another flame out of control!
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I had not been preaching long before I decided that I would never preach to another segregated audience in any situation over which we had control. This was long before the Supreme Court decision of 1954. I felt this was the Christian position and I could do no other.
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Patience . . . speaks of a person’s steadfastness under provocation . . .enduring ill-treatment without anger or thought of retaliation or revenge.
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Only God can break down the national and racial barriers that divide men today. Only God can supply that love that we must have for our fellowman. We will never build brotherhood of man upon earth until we are believers in Christ Jesus.
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Down through the ages man’s heart has remained unchanged. Whatever the color of his skin, whatever his cultural or ethnic background, he needs the Gospel of Christ.
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Ancient historians tell us that one of the symptoms of a declining civilization is a desexualization of the human race, with men becoming more effeminate and women becoming more masculine, not only in physical [appearance] but in their basic characters.
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The closer the people of all races get to Christ and His cross, the closer they will get to one another.
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Here is the judgment toward which every person outside [of] Christ is headed. The date has already been set by God. All men of all races and nationalities, both past and present, will be there. You may make and break appointments in this life—but this is one appointment you will keep.
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No personality in history stands above Jesus Christ . . .He alone is able to meet every need of the human race.
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The human race is called on throughout the Bible to repent of sin and return to God.
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How do we get our values so mixed up? We look for shortcuts to happiness. Our lust for immediate pleasure prompts us to think of evil as good.
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There is legitimate pleasure, which is not wrong, but we are not to become so preoccupied with its activities that it takes the place of God.
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We have at our fingertips every pleasure that man is capable of enjoying, and man has abused every gift God ever gave him.
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We are like a restless sea, finding a little peace here and a little pleasure there, but nothing permanent and satisfying. So the search continues!
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[Mankind has] allowed worldly desires and pleasures to fill the heart and mind. Whatever the sin, we need to repent and turn to Jesus Christ in faith for forgiveness and new life.
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Many of us have no appetite for spiritual things because we are absorbed in the sinful pleasures of this world. We have been eating too many of the devil’s delicacies.
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Today our world is mad in its obsession with pleasure, sex, and money. Its ear is too dull to hear the truth. Most men’s eyes are blind. They do not want to see. They do not want to hear. They hurry to their doom.
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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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Your salvation is a free gift, made possible only because God planned it . . .Christ paid for it . . . and the Holy Spirit assures you of it.
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God doesn’t say to be perfect and you’ll get to heaven. He says to confess that you’re a sinner and come to the cross, and whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
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The Bible is primarily concerned with the story of man’s redemption as it is in Jesus Christ. If you read Scripture and miss the story of salvation, you have missed its message and its meaning.
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If Satan can’t keep you away from Christ, he will at least try to make you doubt your salvation.
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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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Believers in Christ owe nothing to God in payment for salvation . . . but they do owe God a life of undivided devotion and service.
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God’s grace—His goodness and love toward us in spite of our sin—is the wellspring of our salvation.
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The blood of Christ justifies and saves us . . .The word justification means “just as if you had never sinned.
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God longs for men to be saved. God is at work to get men to stop their downward plunge in sin.
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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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How can men boast that they control their own destiny when they cannot solve the problems of war, racism, poverty, sickness, or suffering?
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Patience is the transcendent radiance of a loving and tender heart which, in its dealings with those around it, looks kindly and graciously upon them.
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In our resurrection bodies we will know nothing of physical weakness. Limitations imposed on us on this earth are not known in heaven. We will have a habitation from God that is incorruptible, immortal, and powerful.
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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.
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Don’t let the burdens and hardships of this lifedistract you or discourage you, but keep your eyes firmly fixed on what God has promisedat the end of our journey: heaven itself.
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The most thrilling thing about heaven is that Jesus Christ will be there. I will see Him face to face. Jesus Christ will meet us at the end of life’s journey.
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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.
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Nothing made by the hand of man has ever been so beautiful as starlight on the water or moonlight on the snow. And the same hand that made trees and fields and flowers, the seas and hills, the clouds and sky, has been making a home for us called heaven.
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A Christian’s citizenship may be in heaven, but he has obligations as a citizen of earth. Both living with Christ and going to be with Him in death are greatly to be desired.
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If Jesus had not risen from the dead, no right-minded person would have glorified anything so hideous and repulsive as a cross stained with the blood of Jesus . . .An unopened grave would never have opened heaven.
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Be willing to be sneered at than to be approved, counting the cross of Christ greater riches than all the treasures of Washington, London, Paris, or Moscow.
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The law enables us to see ourselves as morally dirty and in need of cleansing. But it also points us to the place of cleansing: the cross of Christ.
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The cross is the only way of salvation. And the cross gives a new purpose to life.
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The cross shows the seriousness of our sin—but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.
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Jesus was born with the cross darkening His pathway . . . From the cradle to the cross, [Jesus’] purpose was to die.
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Jesus Christ opened heaven’s door for us by His death on the cross.
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Great crowds followed our Lord . . . as He healed the sick, raised the dead, and fed the hungry. However, the moment He started talking about the cross . . . “many . . . no longer followed him” (John 6:66 NIV).
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Sin was conquered on the cross. [Christ’s] death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph!
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Had Satan not set himself in opposition to God . . . there would have been no need for God to send His Son to the cross.
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One-third of Matthew . . . one-third of Mark . . . one-fourth of Luke, and one-half of John are given to [Christ’s] death . . .Jesus came for the express purpose of dying for sinners. When He left heaven, He knew He was going to the cross.
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Sin’s masterpiece of shame and hate became God’s masterpiece of mercy and forgiveness. Through the death of Christ upon the cross, sin itself was crucified for those who believe in Him.
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The cross has become a symbol in much of the Western world, misused by many rock stars and others who do not comprehend its significance.
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The heart of the Christian Gospel with its incarnation and atonement is in the cross and the resurrection. Jesus was born to die.
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Why is it that the cross has become the symbol of Christianity? It is because at the cross Jesus purchased our redemptionand provided a righteousness which we could not ourselves earn.
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