Billy Graham Quotes - Page 22

In our day many people are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, and emptiness have gripped much of our world.
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No area of human life is so full of difficulties and heartaches as relationships. If you listed everything that upset you during the past week, I suspect most had to do with other people. People can be selfless and kind, but they can also be difficult, stubborn, ego-driven, thoughtless, mean, selfish, manipulative. But the problem is not just other people; it’s also ourselves.
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Man is not growing better! Man is not climbing upward. Instead of progress in man himself there is degeneracy—degeneracy of body, mind, and spirit. Man is going downhill.
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Success stories may be great motivational material for sales seminars, but we are not always successful.
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Time and tide and the ravages of sin take their toll on the most noble achievements of man.
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Our job in life is not to be successful, but to be faithful.
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This age is interested in success, not suffering . . . Our Lord was ridiculed, insulted, persecuted, and eventually killed. In the face of opposition, He went about “doing good.
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Many of the wicked are receiving their wages now. Many Christians who may not be succeeding according to the world’s standards now, will reap great rewards in heaven.
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The Western world’s sole objective seems to be success, status, security, self-indulgence, pleasure, and comfort.
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Success or failure cannot be measured by any human standard.
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God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.
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God can take anything that happens to us—even bad things—and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person—if we will let Him.
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There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.
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Our personalities, our intelligence, and our capabilities are gifts from [God’s] own bountiful hand. If we divert their use for our own profit, we become guilty of selfishness.
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Almost nothing is as complex as the human personality, and no simple formula will ever cover every situation or every relationship.
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People are little creatures with big capacities, finite beings with infinite desires, deserving nothing but demanding all. God made people with this huge capacity and desire in order that He might come in and completely satisfy that desire.
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A true servant of God is someone who helps another succeed.
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I am becoming aware of the truth that people change people as much as ideas change people.The power of personality is strong . . . often personality is greater than the idea.
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[God the Spirit] will never lead you contrary to the Word of God. I hear people saying, “The Lord led me to do this . . .” I am always a little suspicious unless what the Lord has said is in keeping with His Word.
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Your spiritual life needs food . . . where do you find [this]? In the Bible, the Word of God. The Bible reveals Christ, who is the Bread of Life for your hungry soul, and the Water of Life for your thirsty heart.
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God has not promised to bless my thoughts, but He has promised to bless His Word.
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Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God’s Word.
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As Christians, we have only one authority, one compass: the Word of God.
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Nothing will help us grow spiritually more than spending time alone with God every day, reading His Word and praying. Time alone with God is essential to our spiritual welfare.
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The Old Testament may not seem relevant to us today—but it is, because it is part of God’s Holy Word, and He has much to teach us through its pages.
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Through the written Word we discover the Living Word—Jesus Christ.
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God never leads us to do anything that is contrary to His Word. But the opposite is also true: God always leads us to do everything that is in agreement with His Word.
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The Word of God hidden in the heart is a stubborn voice to suppress.
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Who can tell us how to get along with each other better than God? Where can we turn for wisdom better than God’s Word, the Bible?
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O God! There are many things in [the Bible] I do not understand . . . I am going to accept this as Thy Word—by faith! I’m going to allow faith to go beyond my intellectual questions and doubts, and I will believe this to be Your inspired Word.
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A computer . . . has no worth unless it is programmed . . . The believer has tremendous potential, but that potential cannot be used until he is programmed with the Word of God.
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The Spirit of God takes the Word of God and makes the child of God.
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When I quote Scripture, I know I am quoting the very Word of God.
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Scientific discoveries (not theories) are found more and more to fit into the record God has given us in His Word.
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The fact that God is infinite makes the study of His Word a lifetime occupation.
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Oh that we would hunger to be filled with the Word of God; for there is no greater armor, no greater strength, no greater assurance that He is with us, and in us, when we go forth in battle equipped and nourished by His instruction and determined to stand firm on His promises.
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God and God’s Word are inseparable.
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I have never known a man who received Christ and ever regretted it.
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Don’t rebel, but give God the opportunity to change your life and help you over the problems of youth, for they are many.
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Parents do overindulge their children, giving them a profusion of material things . . . without the stabilizing effects of earning one’s way, of making decisions, of sweating hard to attain some kind of goal, young people are grievously handicapped.
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Do young people have the moral stamina to carry through in case of economic depression? . . . The real tests of the [younger] generations have not yet come, but they are on their way!
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The Bible teaches that there will be a famine of the Word of God in the last days . . . spiritual starvation leads to spiritual death.
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Confrontation is the special business of young people. They confront their parents, peers, society, law enforcement officers, and themselves, but primarily they confront God.
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What is the most difficult word for young people to pronounce? It’s the word no. When we say no [to what is against God], He will help us to stand by it. He will give us courage.
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I am in favor of hanging the Ten Commandments in every schoolroom in the country so young people can know the difference between right and wrong. They don’t know the difference and we’re seeing the evidence of that all around us every day.
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I come in contact with mixed-up people, young men and women caught in the anguish of their own unpreparedness, intellectuals who have been seduced by false science, and rich men held in the grip of insecurity. They have no commitment to any goal. They lack an anchorage for their real self. And I long to take every one of them by the hand and lead them into the presence of the One who said, “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” [Matthew 11:28 KJV].
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It is strange that the world accepts enthusiasm in every realm but the spiritual.
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We don’t live in an ideal world, but in a world dominated by sinful, selfish desires.
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Much of the world believes little or nothing. People are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, emptiness, and meaninglessness have gripped much of the world—and even the church . . . By contrast, our Pilgrim forebears stand as shining examples of men who were narrow but deep, certain of what they believed, unswerving in their loyalty, and passionately dedicated to the God they trusted, and for whom they would willingly have died.
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Worldliness is an inner attitude that puts self at the center of life instead of God.
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Too many times we are concerned with how much, instead of how little, like this [world] we can become.
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The saddest words I can ever imagine would be to hear the Lord say, “I never knew you. Away from Me” [Matthew 7:23 NIV].
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It often takes a tragedy to open our hearts, minds, and wills to the truth of God’s Word.
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While those around you are filling their minds with the bad news about man in their daily papers, steep yourself in the good news about God in His precious Word!
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Don’t argue with [a professor], but test everything he says in the light of God’s Word.
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We need to fortify ourselves with the Word of God.
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I look upon it as a lost day when I have not had a good time over the Word of God.
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Some, who doubt that the Bible is the true Word of God, doubt it because they are unwilling to ascribe to God anything they cannot themselves achieve.
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The Bible teaches that we are to live in this world, but we are not to partake of the evils of the world. We are to be separated from the world of evil. When I face something in the world, I ask: “Does it violate any principle of Scripture? Does it take the keen edge off my Christian life? Can I ask God’s blessing on it? Will it be a stumbling block to others? Would I like to be there, or reading that, or be watching that, if Christ should return at that time?
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We act as if it doesn’t matter how we live or what we think or say. We have moved in with the world, and we have allowed the world to penetrate the way we live. So the things that we used to call sin no longer seem to be sin to us.
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