Billy Graham Quotes - Page 16

Many homes are on the rocks today because God has been left out of the domestic picture. With the clash of personalities in a domestic pattern, there must be an integrating force, and the living God is that Force!
Billy Graham
If there were no heaven and no hell, I would still want to be a Christian because of what it does for our homes and our own families in this life.
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With the breakdown of discipline in the home and with every source of amusement and instruction pouring poison into daily life, it is not to be wondered that the minds of people are ready to receive anything but the truth and that they are ready to believe lies and ultimately the lie.
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The world is not a permanent home, it is only a temporary dwelling.
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It is far easier to live an excellent life among your friends, when you are putting your best foot forward and are conscious of public opinion, than it is to live for Christ in your home.
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The broken home has become the number one social problem of America, and could ultimately lead to the destruction of our civilization . . . it does not make screaming headlines; but, like termites, it is eating away at the heart and core of the American structure.
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If you are a true Christian, you will not give way at home to bad temper, impatience, fault-finding, sarcasm, unkindness, suspicion, selfishness, or laziness.
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The home only fulfills its true purpose when it is God-controlled. Leave Jesus Christ out of your home and it loses its meaning. But take Christ into your heart and the life of your family, and He will transform your home.
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When we are young and restless to be free, home is the place from which we long to escape. But if there is still a home intact when trouble arises and life becomes a battlefield, home is the place to which we yearn to return.
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In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.
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The Bible takes the word home with all of its tender associations and sacred memories, and applies it to the hereafter and tells us that heaven is home.
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God does not want an apartment in our house. He claims our entire home from attic to cellar.
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The Lord Jesus Christ is preparing a home fit for all who live for Him, a place designed for the church triumphant. Let’s exemplify the work of His hands, for they are busy, on our behalf, building a city large enough to encompass His people of faith—an eternal home for the soul.
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One final reason for choosing God’s path is of supreme importance: It leads us home.
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Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope.
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For the believer there is hope beyond the grave, because Jesus Christ has opened the door to heaven for us by His death and resurrection.
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Christ wants to give you hope for the future. He wants you to learn what it means to walk with Him every day. When you come to Christ, God gives you eternal life—which begins right now as you open your heart to Him.
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Faith points us beyond our problems to the hope we have in Christ.
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If people paid more attention to death, eternity, and judgment, there would be more holy living on earth.
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Death is said in the Bible to be a coronation for the Christian.
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It is strange that men will prepare for everything except death. We prepare for education. We prepare for business. We prepare for our careers. We prepare for marriage. We prepare for old age. We prepare for everything except the moment we are to die.
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Death reduces all men to the same rank. It strips the rich of his millions and the poor man of his rags . . .Death knows no age limits, no partiality. It is a thing that all men fear.
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One of the primary goals in life should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.
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No matter how much you exercise, no matter how many vitamins or health foods you eat, no matter how low your cholesterol, you will still die—someday. If you knew the moment and manner of your death in advance, would you order your life differently?
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Death for [a Christian] is no accident. With God there are no accidents, no tragedies, and no catastrophes as far as His children are concerned.
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When we all reach the end of our earthly journey, we will have just begun.
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Though the Christian has no immunity from death and no claim to perpetual life on this planet, death is to him a friend rather than a foe, the beginning rather than the end, another step on the pathway to heaven rather than a leap into a dark unknown.
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The word decease literally means “exodus” or “going out.” The imagery is that of the children of Israel leaving Egypt and their former life of bondage, slavery, and hardship for the Promised Land. So death to the Christian is an exodus from the limitations, the burdens, and the bondage of this life.
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From the moment a child is born, the death process, and the fight against it, begins.
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Life and death is not a do-it-yourself project.
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Christ did not die by accident. He died voluntarily in our place.
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Someday this life will end, but for the Christian death also marks a beginning—the beginning of a new life with God that will last forever.
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I’m not afraid to die, for I know the joys of heaven are waiting. My greatest desire is to live today in anticipation of tomorrow and be ready to be welcomed into His home for all eternity. Will you be making the journey with me?
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Death carries with it a certain dread. It [is] the enemy, the great, mysterious monster that makes people quake with fear.
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Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon your shoulder and this brief message will be given: “Come home.
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Death of the righteous . . . is not to be feared or shunned. It is the shadowed threshold to the palace of God.
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Someday you will read or hear that Billy Graham is dead. Don’t you believe a word of it! I shall be more alive than I am now. I will just have changed my address. I will have gone into the presence of God.
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We now have the advantage of a few years more of life, but death is still standing at the end of the road.
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Delighting in the Lord alters the desires.
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Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.
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Most of us know about God, but that is quite different from knowing God.
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The wheels of [God’s] mercy and justice move quietly and silently, but they do move.
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God is not bound by a body, yet He is a Person. He feels, He thinks, He loves, He forgives, He sympathizes with the problems and sorrows that we face.
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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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God can be everywhere at once, heeding the prayers of all who call out in the name of Christ; performing the mighty miracles that keep the stars in their places, and the plants bursting up through the earth, and the fish swimming in the sea. There is no limit to God. There is no limit to His wisdom. There is no limit to His power. There is no limit to His love. There is no limit to His mercy.
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Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn’t in you. Church can become a drab thing and the Bible an irksome Book if the Holy Spirit does not illuminate your soul with His indwelling presence.
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At this crucial point in world history, everyone should be seeking an answer to the question, “What is God like?” Everyone should ask it, and everyone should make very sure of the answer . . . The Bible says, “. . . God has shown it to them” [Romans 1:19 NKJV].
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Nothing in our lives takes God by surprise.
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God is not a bargaining God. You cannot barter with Him. You must do business with Him on His own terms.
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If we read the Bible as carefully and as regularly as we read the daily papers, we would be as familiar with and as well informed about God as we are about our favorite player’s batting average during baseball season!
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We have a conception that God is a haphazard God with no set of rules of life and salvation. Ask the astronomer if God is a haphazard God. He will tell you that every star moves with precision in its celestial path.
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If you have been trying to limit God—stop it! Don’t try to confine Him or His works to any single place or sphere. You wouldn’t try to limit the ocean.
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Getting to know God and being able to call on Him is the most important step in storing up for the storms.
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God began by revelation to build a bridge between Himself and people.
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To live the life of God we must have the nature of God.
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Your yearning for God must supersede all other desires. It must be like a gnawing hunger and a burning thirst.
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Remember that “where God guides, He provides. Where He leads, He supplies all needs.
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Has God designated any one person here on earth to speak with final authority about Him? No—the one Man who could do that lived two thousand years ago, and we crucified Him!
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God says that we can learn a great deal about Him just by observing nature. Because He has spoken through His universe, all men are without excuse for not believing in Him. This is why the Psalmist said: “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God” [Psalm 14:1 KJV].
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If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God’s mercy.
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