Billy Graham (quotes)

God’s hand never slips.
One with God is a majority.
I wish I’d watched less TV.
I don’t have many sad days.
I just want to lobby for God.
Life is a glorious opportunity.
Even our pets can become idols.
Your faith and hope are in god.
You choose sin. You practice sin.
The Christian is an idol breaker.
May the Lord bless you real good.
Its either Christ or the other god.
God has a plan for your retirement.
Ruth and I are happily incompatible.
It takes suffering to widen the soul.
I never saw a U-Haul behind a hearse.
The only thing He forgets is our sins.
You’re rich if you’ve had a meal today.
Many of you wavier by the way you live.
Millions of angels are at God’s command.
A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.
Don’t wavier. Make a decision. Do it now.
The seed of sin is in us when we are born.
Commitment to great causes makes great men.
Some of us want the crown before the cross.
God’s path always delivers what He promises.
I would not want to live in any other period.
I can’t explain 9/11, except the evil of man.
The Bible is the Constitution of Christianity.
Give your life to Christ, he’ll challenge you.
There are many things that I don’t understand.
Evil is real – but so is God’s power and love.
Christ not only died for all: He died for each.
The Bible says we must choose two ways of life.
The greatest fear comes when God is a stranger.
The end of the world begins the moment you die.
Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
To be peacemaker, you must know the peace giver.
A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
There is no joy in life like the joy of sharing.
No nation is ever taller than when on its knees.
Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.
I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.
I’m not focused on the gay and lesbian movement.
Don’t let past mistakes keep you from seeking God
Those who have suffered make the best comforters.
There come times when we have to fight for peace.
He (man) is both dust of earth and breath of God.
Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.
When Satan knocks, I just send Christ to the door.
Every successful work of God must have opposition.
I have so many gay friends, and we remain friends.
God never tempts any man. That is Satan’s business.
Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.
Ask God to show you His plans, not bless your dreams
On our knees we are the most powerful force on earth
The same sun that melts the butter hardens the clay.
Serve God and live; serve these other gods and died.
Success in God’s eyes is faithfulness to His calling.
Be sure that your motive in praying is to glorify God.
The way we live often speaks far louder than our words.
At the foot of the cross, there are no racial barriers.
The Bible is clear that the Holy Spirit is God Himself.
Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.
Grief’s darkness fades in the sunlight of thanksgiving.
Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
The Christian should stand out like a sparkling diamond.
A Christian is someone who has turned to God from idols.
Chose you this day whom, not tomorrow, whom you’ll serve?
God does not call us to be successful, but to be obedient.
You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.
Integrity is the glue that holds our way of life together.
If you find a perfect church don’t join it: You’d spoil it.
Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.
The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.
I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.
The problems of peace are greater than the problems of war.
The Bible teaches that all sin begins with sinful thinking.
You cannot serve god and mammon. You have to make a choice.
My home is in Heaven. I’m just traveling through this world.
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life.
Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have
Our way lies not in human ingenuity, but in a return to God.
Because God is love, He could not completely cast man aside.
Death is robbed of much of its terror for the true believer.
Live each day as if it were your last for some day it will be.
A life touched by the Holy Spirit will tolerate sin no longer.
Salvation is free! God puts no price tag on the Gift of gifts.
I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.
When the family is destroyed, society eventually disintegrates.
The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection.
God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.
All mankind is crying out for guidance, for comfort, for peace.
… a true servant of God is someone who helps another succeed.
There is no way of salvation except through the cross of Christ.
Heaven is full of answers for which nobody ever bothered to ask.
When you come to Christ, you have to give up all the other gods.
Life without God is like an unsharpened pencil – it has no point.
A suffering person does not need a lecture – he needs a listener.
Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God’s Word.
Every human being is under construction from conception to death.
I don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.
God’s grace, quite simply, is God’s mercy and goodness toward us.
To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.
You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.
Kindness is an essential part of Gods work and ours here on earth.
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
I can barely walk, but it’s a privilege to be able to move at all.
Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.
Jesus Christ opened heaven’s door for us by His death on the cross.
God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.
Psychaiatrist realize that there are curative powers in confession.
Faith is loved and honored by God more than any other single thing.
I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.
… the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.
You can’t control the length of your life. You can control the depth
When Christ’s love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run.
I will never do anything in my entire life except preach the Gospel.
Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn’t in you.
There’s a way of life, there’s a way of death. Which way are you on?
The word of God hidden in the heart is a stubborn voice to suppress.
If I had to do it all over again, I would speak less and study more.
Sin then is not a toy with which to play but a terror to be shunned.
The Beatles are a passing phase, symptoms of the confusion about us.
True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency.
Prayer is more than a wish; it is the voice of faith directed to God.
Learn to keep close to Jesus, to listen to His voice, and follow Him.
The angels minister to God’s servants in time of hardship and danger.
We’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.
Our World has becoime a neighbourhood without becoming a brotherhood.
You will never understand who you are until you understand who God is.
I can tell you that God is alive because I talked to him this morning.
Homes that are built on anything other than love are bound to crumble.
If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.
Being judgmental and condemning is not one of the gifts of the Spirit.
Do you want to trust your life in God’s pocket or keep it in your own?
The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control.
To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.
God is concerned about everything that concerns us – without exception.
The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.
We are not cistern made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.
The world’s favorite verb is ‘get’. The verb of the Christian is ‘give’
Most of us know about God, but that is quite different from knowing God.
Believers, look up – take courage. The angels are nearer than you think.
… some day you will have to give an account for every penny you spent.
For a married couple to expect perfection for each other is unrealistic.
Why should we give God thanks? Because everything we have comes from God.
We have perfected our weapons but failed to perfect the men who use them.
The moment we take our last breath on earth, we take our first in heaven.
What we think of Christ influences our thinking and controls our actions.
The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
Heaven doesn’t make this life less important; it makes it more important.
Having knowledge of the Bible is essential to a rich and meaningful life.
Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events.
We in America should be grateful to God for the blessing he has given us.
The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.
If people are kicking you in the behind, at least you’re in front of them.
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service.
Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.
God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
It (the Bible) has never bowed its head before the discoveries of science.
I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.
No matter how dark and hopeless a situation might seem, never stop praying.
Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.
God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.
Guy Lafleur said “Each of us has only one past but there are many futures”.
I haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.
God doesn’t owe us anything yet in His grace, He still gives us good things.
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
I have never known anyone to accept Christ’s redemption and later regret it.
If you are ignorant of God’s Word, you will always be ignorant of God’s will.
We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer.
I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.
Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.
In a very real sense, the suffering of this world was created by man himself.
Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.
It is the Holy Spirit’s job to convict, God’s job to judge and my job to love.
The most remarkable thing about suffering is that God can use it for our good.
Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
If there are any tears shed in heaven, it will be because we prayed so little.
Our faith becomes stronger as we express it; a growing faith is a sharing faith
The Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I’m here.
The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
People have a negative impression of New York that I don’t think is quite fair.
If ever there was a time this country needed the intervention of God, it is now.
‘God is Love’ means that He tries constantly to block your route to destruction.
You not only choose between two ways of life but you choose between two masters.
It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.
As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.
Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality.
Life is just a schoolroom with a glorious opportunity to prepare us for eternity.
Remember: the Bible is our only authoritative source of information about Heaven.
A checkbook is a theological document, it will tell you who and what you worship.
God has not promised to bless my thoughts, but He has promised to bless His Word.
Not to decide is to decide not to, nowhere in the bible does it promise tomorrow.
Jesus had a humble heart. If He abides in us, pride will never dominate our lives.
When you follow Christ, it must be a total burning of all your bridges behind you.
Just because the truth is unpopular doesn’t mean that it should not be proclaimed.
Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!
You can’t change your past but you can change you destiny but deciding for Christ.
I am convinced that only when a man is prepared to die is he also prepared to live.
All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
Once you’ve lost your privacy, you realize you’ve lost an extremely valuable thing.
Alexander the great was ask how he conquered the world he said, “by not waivering”.
Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians.
We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God’s side.
We cannot truly face life until we face the fact that it will be taken away from us.
Many people have just enough natural religion to make them immune to the real thing.
Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin.
The greatest need in the world at this moment is the transformation of human nature.
Please join me in praying for America, that we will turn our hearts back toward God.
Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!
Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God’s reason for sending them.
It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.
The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.
Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
Christ demands first place. There’s no room on the throne of your heart for two gods.
I don’t need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.
Wherever the Gospel is preached, no matter how crudely, there are bound to be results.
Every day without exception – is a gift from God, entrusted to us to use for His glory.
I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.
Don’t worry about what you can’t do; focus instead on what you can do… and then do it.
Men change, fashions change, conditions and circumstances change, but God never changes.
The secret of a happy home is that members of the family learn to give and receive love.
… the way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.
God never takes away something from your life without replacing it with something better.
God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice.
Salvation is an act of God. It is initiated by God, wrought by God, and sustained by God.
Give me five minutes with a person’s checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.
Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment; being a Christian is the work of a lifetime.
Christianity is not a spectator sport. It’s something in which we become totally involved.
Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
Any other foundation will fail, but Christ is a sure and steady rock to build your life on.
My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again.
If it weren’t for God’s grace, you and I wouldn’t be able to live for even one more minute.
No matter what trials we face, Christ never leaves us. He is with us every step of the way!
It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.
The Gospel never grows old. It applies to every generation alike. We have to make a choice.
There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.
… Not only are we comforted in our trials, but our trials can equip us to comfort others.
… our little things are all big to God’s love; our big things are all small to His power.
It’s sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.
Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called “the vacuum which God left behind.
If your faith isn’t rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.
Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
The Bible is not an option, it is a necessity. You cannot grow spiritually strong without it.
We can receive Jesus Christ when we believe in His message and trust in Him alone to save us.
A coach will impact more people in one year than the average person will in an entire lifetime.
… when we are hurt it is important to remember that God Himself has allowed it for a purpose.
May our prayers today, and every day, be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being.
Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.
I am convinced that these heavenly beings exist and that they provide unseen aid on our behalf.
The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin-but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.
Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will.
If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God’s mercy.
Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.
If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.
If you don’t make a decision then time will make it for you and time will always side against you!
Sex is front-page copy everywhere. [But] nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.
Knowing we will be with Christ forever far outweighs our burdens today! Keep your eyes on eternity!
God knows what is best for you, and He wants to reveal it to you and show you what you ought to do.
I believe one of the next great moves of God is going to be through the believers in the workplace.
It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.
The word of God teaches that Christians suffer in order that they might glorify God in their lives.
The most prominent place in hell is reserved for those who are neutral on the great issues of life.
é”Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything — including the Christian plan of salvation.
You have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God.
The cross is offensive because it directly confronts the evils which dominate so much of this world.
Even when life may be difficult, we should thank God for all He does for us-which we do not deserve.
Don’t apologize for who you are and what you’ve done in the past. Be who you are and do what you do.
I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.
Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.
The philosopher says think your way out. The sensualist says play your way out but none of it works.
There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul.
I trust Jesus with all my tomorrows, knowing that He will solve the mystery of life beyond the grave.
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
God can use a sensitive Christian to be a rich blessing in the life of one who knows pain and sorrow.
I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. Are you unstable about your relationship to Christ?
Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.
Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon our shoulder and this brief message will be given: “Come home.
God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness.
For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world.
I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‘Lord, remember me.’
Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.
I’m not an analyzer. I’ve got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don’t analyze people.
We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?
Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.
I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.
In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.
My calling is to preach the love of God and the forgiveness of God and the fact that he does forgive us.
If we fail to solve this moral and spiritual crisis we may be doomed like the great nations of the past.
The only place we can find a clear, unmistakable message is in the Word of God, which we call the Bible.
If you want the perfect plan that God has for your life, you will have to go by way of Calvary to get it.
Sin was conquered on the cross. Christ’s death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph.
One of the primary goals in life … should be to prepare for death. Everything else should be secondary.
One of the greatest priorities of the church today is to mobilize the laity to do the work of evangelism.
Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.
The crowds themselves are meaningless. The thing that counts is what happens to the hearts of the people.
The Bible’s emphasis is on the good treatment of animals, and not just the forbidding of cruel treatment.
The Bible teaches that history began in the Middle East, and someday history will end in the Middle East.
Perhaps the greatest psychological, spiritual, and medical need that all people have is the need for hope.
In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.
Prayer is speaking to God – but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.
Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.
I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God’s Word.
Those who have a true love of freedom will do everything in their power to keep the freedom that they have.
Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.
Some believe strongly that each Christian may have his own guardian angel assigned to watch over him or her.
Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.
Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.
It’s a paradise that we are going to go into, because to be in the presence of God itself will be a paradise.
Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God’s Word.
Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!
The Lord blesses people who bless others, and He gives grace to those who focus on the things that please Him.
The great comfort in knowing that angels minister to believers in Christ is that God Himself sends them to us.
Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn’t pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.
Like a spring of pure water, God’s peace in our hearts brings cleansing and refreshment to our minds and bodies
God’s hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good.
The Bible stresses that a marriage ideally should be a picture or a reflection of Christ’s love for His people.
I know God is in charge. Not me, I’m nothing. I wouldn’t be anything except for the power of the spirit of God.
God’s holiness demands that sin be punished – but God’s love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.
…hymns have been a powerful instrument of God to draw people closer to His Word and the saving riches therein.
Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it’s actually a battle between Christ and Anti-Christ.
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
The Spirit goes ahead of us when we witness—preparing the way, giving us the words, and granting us courage.
Christ alone can bring lasting peace – peace with God – peace among men and nations – and peace within our hearts.
I am convinced that when a man sincerely searches for God with all his heart, God will reveal Himself in some way.
Fear can paralyze us and keep us from believing God and stepping out in faith. The devil loves a fearful Christian!
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
Our chaotic, confused world has no greater need than to hear the message of good news – the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is an unfortunate mistake of the devil. But if it repents, it will be saved!
Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and his will first in everything you do.
I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.
I never imagined anybody would ever come out to hear me preach. I’m just a country dairy farmer from North Carolina.
Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’
If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
“I’m in a win-win playoff. ” Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing.
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.
A true Christian, living an obedient life, is a constant rebuke to those who accept the moral standards of this world.
The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.
Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go.
The Bible is to your soul what bread is to your body. You need it daily. One good meal does not suffice for a lifetime.
Donôt miss what the Lord has in store for those who love Him and are willing to let Him be the Master of their lives.
Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.
We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.
Be to the world a sign that while we as Christians do not have all the answers, we do know and care about the questions.
Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year. It brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.
When our faith becomes nothing more than a series of rules and regulations, joy flees and our love for Christ grows cold.
All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compassion and encouragement.
Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God’s eyes is faithfulness to His calling.
Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give them completely to Christ
The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.
The born-again Christian sees life not as a blurred , confused, meaningless mass, but as something planned and purposeful.
I am convinced the greatest act of love we can ever perform for people is to tell them about God’s love for them in Christ.
To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?
Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.
Angels belong to a uniquely different dimension of creation which we, limited to the natural order, can scarcely comprehend.
Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The’ve been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.
Anyone who makes a decision at our meetings is seen later and referred to a local clergyman, Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish.
Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.
God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.
We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture’s mandate to us is, “Weep with them that weep.” (Romans 12:15, KJV)
Pope John Paul II was unquestionably the most influential voice for morality and peace in the world during the last 100 years.
If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.
My one purpose in life is to help people find a personal relationship with God, which, I believe, comes through knowing Christ.
The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.
While we do not place our faith directly in angels, we should place it in the God who rules the angels; then we can have peace.
I am convinced that people are open to the Christian message if it is seasoned with authority and proclaimed as God’s own Word.
Scripture tells us that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord. I believe all these signs are evident today.
End of Construction. Thank you ‘for your patience. ” Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham’s grave — inspired hy a road sign she saw.
When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.
Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.
No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
Sin is the second most powerful force in the universe, for it sent Jesus to the cross. Only one force is greater-the love of God.
Tim Keller’s ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him.
When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, “Ruth and I are happily incompatible.”
Ringing assurance that we are not alone… That we are assisted and defended by a powerful and glorious order of invisible Beings.
I’m glad to know that we do have political leaders that believe in God, and that has been true from the days of George Washington.
Heaven will be the perfection we’ve always longed for. All the things that made Earth unlovely and tragic will be absent in heaven.
When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.
Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won’t grumble. Grumble and you won’t be grateful.
The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross.
Only as we bow in contrition, confession, and repentance at the foot of the cross, can we find forgiveness. There is the grace of God.
There is nothing new about humanism. It is the yielding to Satan’s first temptation of Adam and Eve: “Ye shall be as gods.” (Gen. 3:5)
God does not change – and neither does His love. He loved you before you were born… He loves you now… and He will love you forever.
Don’t let circumstances distress you. Rather, look for the will of God for your life to be revealed in and through those circumstances.
God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.
Many people have come to Christ as a result of my participation in presenting the Gospel to them. It’s all the work of the Holy Spirit.
As this New Year begins, ask God to help you tune your life every day to His Word, so you can bring harmony and joy to those around you.
Although we may trust God’s promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.
His (God) love is not a passing fancy or superficial emotion; it is a profound and unshakable commitment that seeks what is best for us.
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 thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite ‘thank you,’ it is the recognition of dependence.
I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That’s not my issue.
Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children.
There are people that say they will do better but they never do better. They have no power in them to do better until they come to Christ.
There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim
The word ‘romance,’ according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
The key word of the dedicated Christian should be ‘give.’ Charitable contributions speak eloquently of your unselfish Christian generosity.
Men have discovered other philosophical and ethical systems, but they have not found another Jesus Christ. No one in history can match Him.
Whatever affliction comes in our life, our Lord goes into the valley with us, leading us by the hand, even carrying us when it is necessary.
Prayer shouldn’t be casual or sporadic, dictated only by the needs of the moment. Prayer should be as much a part of our lives as breathing.
The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end – and that Heaven exists – is because we were created in the image of God.
On a specific day marked on the earth’s calendar, and in a specific place on the earth’s map, the Son of God came to the planet. It was love.
Everything we have comes from (God’s) hands; even if we worked for it or earned it, He still gave us the ability and the opportunity to do it.
It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.
Without dark clouds in our lives, we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.
… 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.
I have never been quite sure who controls the weather. Although we always prayed for clear skies, I have had to preach in all kinds of storms.
Don’t be a half-Christian. There are too many of such in the world. The world has a profound respect for people who are sincere in their faith.
Living for Christ is a day-to-day going on with Him. It is a continuous dependence upon the Spirit of God. It is believing in His faithfulness.
First of all, you have to meet God with light! I do not believe that any man, that any man can solve the problems of life without Jesus Christ.
Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it will be like.
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 let Him.
Faith that saves has one distinguishing quality: saving faith is a faith that produces obedience; it is a faith that brings about a way of life.
Look, I happen to agree with what George says about the interpretation of the New Testament, but I want to remind both of you to never play God.
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.
Avail yourself of the greatest privilege this side of heaven. Jesus Christ died to make this communion and communication with the Father possible.
I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms.
No matter who you are or what your life has been like so far, the rest of your life’s journey can be different. With God’s help you can begin again.
The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.
It’s no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.
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.
It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The gospel did not come into being because men believed it…The fact always precedes the faith.
The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it does teach that sin shall no longer reign over you.
Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.
Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that person was kind to him or her.
You can receive Christ into your heart, and he can bring joy, and a thrill, and glory such as you have never known – if you will give your life to him.
Can you see God? You haven’t seen him? I’ve never seen the wind. I see the effects of the wind, but I’ve never seen the wind. There’s a mystery to it.
I only know that when Jesus is with a person, that one can endure the deepest suffering and somehow emerge a better and stronger Christian because of it.
Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven — while Shea would still have a job leading worship.
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.
Sometimes I’m asked to list the most important steps in preparing for an evangelistic mission, and my reply is always the same: prayer… prayer… prayer.
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.
It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put Jesus on the cross – it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer His death.
Be careful before leaving someone in a sorrowing situation. Say a word of prayer with them and share even a brief word of encouragement from the Scriptures.
If America is to survive, we must elect more God-centered men and women to public office; individuals who will seek Divine guidance in the affairs of state.
Think of working forever at something you love to do, for one you love with all your heart, and never getting tired! We will never know weariness in heaven.
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’.
There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three.
Our world is constantly changing but the needs of our hearts remain the same, and so does God’s power to transform our lives and give us hope for the future.
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.
When we grieve over someone who has died in Christ, we are sorrowing not for them, but for ourselves. Our grief isn’t a sign of weak faith, but of great love.
What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives. Is that too much to ask?
Don’t ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn’t want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.
God can use the fear that grips the hearts of men today to point them to eternal truths- the truth of God’s eternal judgment, and the truth of His eternal love.
I’m thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn’t still be here if it weren’t for them.
There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us.
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.
We have been proud and thought we were better than any other race, any other people. Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to stumble into hell because of our pride.
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.
Some people say they will follow their conscience..many of us have dead consciences. Your conscience is no longer a safe guide. You’ve harden it, you’ve deaden it.
Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world – not to win them, but to be like them.
At great cost to Himself, God has made it possible for each of us to live with Him eternally. Those who reject God’s offer of a heavenly home will be assigned to hell.
Learn to commit every situation to God, and trust Him for the outcome. God’s love for you never changes, no matter what problems you face or how unsettled life becomes.
A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution.
Life is a glorious opportunity, if it is used to condition us for eternity. If we fail in this, though we succeed in everything else, our life will have been a failure.
A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.
Happy is the person who has learned the secret of being content with whatever life brings him, and has learned to rejoice in the simple and beautiful things around him.
I look forward to seeing Christ and bowing down before Him in praise and gratitude for all He has done for us, and for using me on this earth by His grace-just as I am.
Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.
We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life’s end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully.
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.
All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.
If you could work your way to heaven, you would said look what I did, I got myself here by my good works. The only way you are going to make it is to come to that Cross.
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.
To drive to extinction something He has created is wrong. He has a purpose for everything… We Christians have a responsibility to take the lead in caring for the earth.
God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don’t let the newspaper headlines frighten you. God is still sovereign; He’s still on the throne.
We have found that marriage should be made up of two forgivers. We need to learn to say, “I was wrong, I’m sorry.” And we also need to say, “That’s all right, I love you.”
All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.
God made us for one reason: so He could have fellowship with us. It wasn’t that He was lonely or needed us but He made us in His image so He could shower His love upon us.
Someday your life will be over, no matter how much attention you give to your health. Will you look back with regret, because you nourished your body but starved your soul?
The very purpose of Christ’s coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.
Most of all, God has blessed us by giving us the privilege of knowing Him and walking with Him every day. He did this by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins.
Don’t let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door – if we seek it.
Jesus used the carefree attitude of the birds to underscore the fact that worrying is unnatural. I am learning in my own life, day by day, to keep my mind centered on Christ.
The Bible is actually a library of books-some long, some short- written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one, however, was [the] Author: the Spirit of God.
When life is hard it’s easy to focus only on the bad things and forget all about the good things God has given us. But God has blessed every one of us in ways we often overlook.
When we come to Christ, weôre 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 men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
Today, we come together to confess our need of God. Those perpetrators who took us on to tear us apart, it has worked the other way. It has backfired; it has brought us together.
God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him.
Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus’ gift-the gift that liberates souls from sin’s power.
Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person’s success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.
The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.
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.’
I used to read five psalms every day – that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.
In some Churches today and on some religious television programs, we see the attempt to make Christianity popular and pleasant. We have taken the cross away and substituted cushions.
No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you.
The Holy Spirit gives liberty to the Christian, direction to the worker, discernment to the teacher, power to the Word, and fruit to faithful service. He reveals the things of Christ.
If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of ‘humanness’ would be destroyed. We would become robots.
The greatest miracle of the Bible is that the prophets of Israel could keep a religion as clean as a hounds tooth amid all the corruption and idolatry of the nations surrounding them.
Jesus said…i’m the only way to permanent peace, im the only way to permanent joy, im the only way to eternal life, im the only way to forgiveness of sin, im the only way to the Father.
Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is watching, and His angels are interested spectators too.
Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison – you can pray and know God hears!
Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be “Free at last.” That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.
We are more united than ever before. I think this was exemplified in a very moving way when the members of our Congress stood shoulder to shoulder the other day and sang God Bless America.
[There are] seven gifts God gives you when you commit your life to Christ: a new relationship, a new citizenship, a new family, a new purpose, a new power, a new destiny, and a new journey.
By faith I accepted Him for what He claimed to be, the Son of the Living God. That simple decision changed my life, and I have seen it change the lives of countless others across the world.
There is no scriptural basis for segregation. The ground at the foot of the cross is level, and it touches my heart when I see whites standing shoulder to shoulder with blacks at the cross.
Jesus made everything so simple and we have made it so complicated. He spoke to the people in short sentences and everyday words, illustrating His messages with never-to-be forgotten stories.
Embracing conflict can be a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and the re-engergizing of ourselves and others. Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest. If the home deteriorates, civilization will crumble and fall.
Integrity means that if our private life were suddenly exposed, we’d have no reason to be ashamed or embarrassed. Integrity means that our outward life is consistent with our inner convictions.
I am against abortion; I think that life is sacred and we should take a position of being against abortion. I think it is wrong to take human life. I think that human life starts at conception.
I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial and misunderstood…. As a minister, I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.
Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.
Much of the philosophy of religious education has been based upon a false premise, and perhaps many have missed the essence of Christian experience, having had religious training take its place.
I have many friends that don’t claim to be followers of Christ. As far as day-to-day friendship and being together at various functions, I don’t think that there should be any difference at all.
“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.”
Those are decisions only the Lord will make. I believe the love of God is absolute. He said he gave his son for the whole world, and I think he loves everybody regardless of what label they have.
We do not understand the intricate pattern of the stars in their courses, but we know that He who created them does, and that just as surely as He guides them, He is charting a safe course for us.
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.
In a world that might say one vote doesn’t matter…, it does matter because each person is of infinite worth and value to God… Your vote is a declaration of importance as a person and a citizen.
Hundreds of passages point to a time of judgment for every person who has ever lived-none will escape. If you took all the references to judgment out of the Bible, you would have little Bible left.
We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.
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.
The Bible teaches that faith is the only approach that we have to God. No man has sins forgiven, no man goes to heaven, no man has assurance of peace and happiness, until he has faith in Jesus Christ.
Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus.
Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality.
Yes, Satan is real, but so is Christ, and someday Satan will be defeated and Christ will rule forever. Don’t be deceived, but open your heart and mind to Jesus Christ, and put your life into His hands.
“Man’s civility is lagging behind his technological ability. It could mean disaster and catastrophe for the whole world. We’re all sinners, everyone of us, and a radical change is needed for all of us.”
The Bible says that as long as we are here on earth, we are strangers in a foreign land. There are enemies to be conquered before we return home. This world is not our home; our citizenship is in heaven.
I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and women God has raised up through the centuries to build Christ’s church and take the Gospel everywhere.
We can be certain that God will give us the strength and resources we need to live through any situation in life that he ordains. The will of God will never take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us.
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.
Everybody is a sinner before God. And I think we magnify it today because we have television, and we have so many other technologies that make what happens in some other part of the world in our living room.
Suffering can give us opportunities to witness. The world is a gigantic hospital; nowhere is there a greater chance to see the peace and joy of the Lord than when the journey though the valley is the darkest.
A calling is you feel – you look out and see the need – maybe it’s the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it’s the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was – felt called.
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.
No matter what you might be going through right now, God has blessed you far more than you probably imagine-not just with material goods, but with family, with freedom and with the ability to enjoy His gifts.
Man has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam’s and Eve’s problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear attractive, there would be no such thing as temptation.
May you also remember this Thanksgiving not only the obvious gifts that God has given you, but His spiritual blessings, as well. The greatest gift of all is Jesus Christ, and the salvation God offers us in Him.
You need to be in fellowship of a church…If you separate a live coal from the others, it will soon die out. However, if you put a live coal in with other live coals, it will be a glow that will last for hours.
A compass is narrow-minded-it always points to the magnetic north… We must discipline ourselves, personally, to fight any deviation from the course Jesus set for us. We cannot be tolerant of any other course.
I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them and I do.
therefore i live for today- certain of finding at sunrise guidance and strength for the way. power for each moment of weakness, hope for each moment of pain, comfort for every sorrow, sunshine and joy after rain!
But those who chose to reject God during their lifetime on earth will be separated from him for eternity. This is not God’s desire, but man’s own choice. God holds every man accountable for his rejection of Christ.
The conscience of America seems to be paralyzed… We seem to be insensible to the things that are now taking place on motion picture screens and on the news stands that are constantly stimulating our young people.
God will not force himself upon us against our will. If we want his love, we need to believe in him. We need to make a definite, positive act of commitment and surrender to the love of God. No one can do it for us.
There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.
Our valleys may be filled with foes and tears; but we can lift our eyes to the hills to see God and the angels, heaven’s spectators, who support us according to God’s infinite wisdom as they prepare our welcome home.
While our world is shaking and crumbling, we need to realize that one thing will never change, and that is God. He is the same today as he was ten million years ago, and will be the same ten million years from today.
World travel and getting to know clergy of all denominations has helped mold me into an ecumenical being. We’re separated by theology and, in some instances, culture and race, but all that means nothing to me any more.
I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.
For me, the best time to pray is the very moment a tense situation or an unspiritual attitude overtakes me. God the Holy Spirit is always there, ready to help me gain victory in the spiritual battles I face-big or small.
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.
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.
If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark – the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.
The hope we have in Christ is an absolute certainty. We can be sure that the place Christ is preparing for us will be ready when we arrive, because with Him nothing is left to chance. Everything He promised He will deliver.
No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could’ve done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it’s best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.
No matter how hard we try words simply cannot express the horror, the shock, and the revulsion we all feel over what took place in this nation on Tuesday morning. September 11 will go down in our history as a day to remember.
I don’t want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.
We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.
What a moment to take the newspaper in one hand and the Bible in the other and watch the unfolding of the great drama of the ages. This is an exciting and thrilling time to be alive. I would not want to live in any other period.
When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.
There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world.
Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.
The greatest need in the world is the transformation of human nature. We need a new heart that will not have lust and greed and hate in it. We need a heart filled with love and peace and joy, and that is why Jesus came into the world.
I think we should love sinners, and welcome them, and open our arms to them, and then we don’t totally accept them into our fellowship as believers and as Christians until they have repented their sins and changed their way of living.
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.
Every President I think I’ve ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn’t quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of their Administrations, they were disappointed and wished they had done some things differently.
True greatness is not measured by the headlines a person commands or the wealth he or she accumulates. The inner character of a person-the undergirding moral and spiritual values and commitments-is the true measure of lasting greatness.
The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.
Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges — battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.
Two conflicting forces cannot exist in one human heart. When doubt reigns, faith cannot abide. Where hatred rules, love is crowded out. Where selfishness rules, there love cannot dwell. When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.
When God gets ready to shake America, He may not take the Ph.D. and the D.D. God may choose a country boy … God may choose the man that no one knows, a little nobody, to shake America for Jesus Christ in this day, and I pray that He would!
If ever there was a time this country needed the intervention of God, it is now. We can and should pray for America as a whole, but remember that when God sets out to change a nation, He begins by changing people. It starts with individuals.
Prayer is crucial in evangelism: Only God can change the heart of someone who is in rebellion against Him. No matter how logical our arguments or how fervent our appeals, our words will accomplish nothing unless God’s Spirit prepares the way.
God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. If we fail to fulfill this divine duty and privilege we have missed the meaning of Christianity.
In a country where Christians were looked upon with suspicion and disfavor, a government leader said to me with a twinkle in his eye, ‘Christians seem to thrive under persecution. Perhaps we should prosper them, and then they would disappear.’
When Scripture talks about the heart, it’s not talking about that life-sustaining muscle. It’s talking about our entire inner being. The heart is the seat of our emotions, the seat of decisive action, and the seat of belief (as well as doubt).
Christ did not suffer and die to offer cheap grace. Jesus did not go willingly to the cross so we could have an easy life or offer a faith built on easy-believism. As someone once said, ‘Salvation is free, but not cheap.’ It cost Jesus His life.
We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it’s police in a great city or police in an international scale to keep those madmen from taking over the world and robbing the world of its liberties.
What makes us Christians shrug our shoulders when we ought to be flexing our muscles? What makes us apathetic in a day when there are loads to lift, a world to be won and captives to be set free? Why are so many bored when the times demand action?
If you know Christ, you don’t need to beg for the Holy Spirit to come into your life; He is already there- whether you “feel” His presence or not. Don’t confuse the Holy Spirit with an emotional feeling or a particular type of spiritual experience.
Behind the love of God lies His imniscience – His ability to “know and understand all.” . . . At all times, even in the midst of any type of suffering, I can realize that He knows, loves, watches, understands, and, more than that, He has a purpose.
God undertook the most dramatic rescue operation in cosmic history. He determined to save the human race from self-destruction, and He sent His Son Jesus Christ to salvage and redeem them. The work of man’s redemption was accomplished at the cross.
Robots do not love. God created us with the capacity to love. Love is based upon one’s right to choose to love. We cannot force others to love us. We can make them serve us or obey us. But true love is founded upon one’s freedom to choose to respond.
Some people accuse us of too much emotionalism. I say we have too little. That is why we are losing church people to other interests. We need not only to capture their minds; we’ve got to touch their hearts. We’ve got to make people feel their faith.
Some of the greatest values that have influenced me through the years are those that I learned as a boy growing up on the farm. I remember mostly the love in our family, but I also remember the discipline. Then there was the work; we all had to work.
When my time to die comes an angel will be there to comfort me. He will give me peace and joy even at that most critical hour, and usher me into the presence of God, and I will dwell with the Lord forever. Thank God for the ministry of His blessed angels.

The blood of the lamb applied over the doorpost on the night of Israel’s deliverance from Egypt distinguished the obedient from the disobedient. Just so today the applied blood of the Lamb of God is the distinguishing mark of God’s called out ones, the church.
Like Joseph storing up grain during the years of plenty to be used during the years of famine that lay ahead, may we store up the truths of God’s Word in our hearts as much as possible, so that we are prepared for whatever suffering we are called upon to endure.
The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing of circumstances and most bitter environment.
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.
The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life’s basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.
During this Christmas season, when the world seems to be in turmoil, wars are breaking out in different places, crime is rampant, and many things are happening that are great sins in the sight of God. But in that crib is the person who grew up to save us. And He did.
If Christianity is valid, why is there so much evil in the world?” To this the famous preacher replied, “With so much soap, why are there so many dirty people in the world? Christianity, like soap, must be personally applied if it is to make a difference in our lives.
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.
I received Christ into my heart and my life began to change. But it was a gradual change. And I didn’t see any flashing bulbs. I didn’t hear any thunder. There was no great emotional experience. It was just saying: Yes, Lord Jesus, I want you to be the lord of my life.
I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.
When tragedy strikes, no one is fully prepared to deal effectively with all the responsibilitie s, emotional trauma, and grief that begin to impact people. Our Rapid Response Team exists so that people can find the care and comfort of Jesus Christ in the midst of tragedy.
I’d grown up in a Presbyterian church, but I really didn’t know Christ personally in my heart. I knew him, but I didn’t know him. And there’s a difference between an intellectual faith and a personal, heart faith in which I opened my heart to him and let him rule my life.
Prayer is spiritual communication between man and God, a two-way relationship in which man should not only talk to God but also listen to Him. Prayer to God is like a child’s conversation with his father. It is natural for a child to ask his father for the things he needs.
I have never targeted Muslims. I have never targeted Jews. I believe that we should declare the fact that God loves you, God’s willing to forgive you, God can change you, and Christ and his kingdom is open to anybody who repents and by faith receives him as lord and savior.
The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will root deeply inside us and give inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need on no outward stimulus.
Life itself, every bit of health that we enjoy, every hour of liberty and free enjoyment, the ability to see, to hear, to speak, to think, and to imagine- all this comes from the hand of God. We show our gratitude by giving back to Him a part of that which He has given to us.
Jesus Christ is the greatest man in the history of the world. And to me, he’s the greatest person in the history of mankind and the universe. We can’t prove it, I can’t put it in a test tube or in an astronomical formula, but by faith I believe it because the Bible teaches it.
I remember the first sermon I ever preached. I had four sermons. I preached them, all four in ten minutes. And that was the beginning, in a place called Bostwick, Florida, in northern Florida, in a little tiny church, and on a cold night, about 40 people. And I was so nervous.
The men upon whose shoulders rested the initial responsibility of Christianizing the world came to Jesus with one supreme request. They did not say, ‘Lord, teach us to preach’; Lord, teach us to do miracles,’ or ‘Lord, teach us to be wise’…but they said, ‘Lord, teach us to pray.’
The thing that I remember the most in my childhood was the love of family and the discipline in the family. My father and mother both were disciplinarians, and they didn’t mind using the rod. Maybe because I was the oldest child I always felt I got much more of it than anybody else.
OUR INSPIRATION: Billy Graham, July 2, 1962 úWorld 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. Itôs being fulfilled every day round about us.
Think about the holes children make when they dig in the sand on the seashore. When the waves come in, the holes are swallowed up by the ocean. Similarly, when we know Christ, our physical death is overwhelmed by the love and grace of God. Death is swallowed up in the victory of Christ.
The Bible promises us that Jesus will return to take His faithful followers with Him to live with Him in His glorious presence forever. Everyone else will be left behind to face God’s wrath and judgment. If Jesus were to return today, do you know if He would take you with Him to heaven?.
I have a certainty about eternity that is a wonderful thing, and I thank God for giving me that certainty. I do not fear death. I may fear a little bit about the process, but not death itself, because I think the moment that my spirit leaves this body, I will be in the presence of the Lord.
In my travels I have found that those who keep Heaven in view remain serene and cheerful in the darkest day. If the glories of Heaven were more real to us, if we lived less for material things and more for things eternal and spiritual, we would be less easily disturbed by this present life.
Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is one reason we must receive Christ, for apart from His Spirit we can never be freed from the chains of selfishness, jealousy, and indifference. Will others see Christ’s love in your life today?
Jesus was not a white man; He was not a black man. He came from that part of the world that touches Africa and Asia and Europe. Christianity is not a white man’s religion and don’t let anybody ever tell you that it’s white or black. Christ belongs to all people; He belongs to the whole world.
Some of the greatest spiritual revivals in the past occurred just when the situation seemed to be the darkest. In the history of our own nation, for example, countless thousands turned to Christ during the darkest days of the Civil War, setting the stage for national reconciliation later on.
In the founding era of our country, it was not organized religion but personal faith that brought focus and unified the early leadership-maybe an unspoken faith in God, and certain values that came with that faith. So in that sense, we cannot discount, in my judgment, religious faith in politics.
I think we are trying to run the space age with horse and buggy moral and spiritual equipment. Technology you see has no morals; and with no moral restraints man will destroy himself ecologically, militarily, or in some other way. Only God can give a person moral restraints and spiritual strength.
The greatest moments of Native History lie ahead of us if a great spiritual renewal and wakening should take place. The Native American has been a sleeping giant. He is awakening. The original Americans could become the evangelists who will help win America for Christ! Remember these forgotten people!
I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.
Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.
Angels speak. They appear and reappear. They feel with apt sense of emotion. While Angels may become visible by choice, our eyes are not conducted to see them ordinarily any more than we can see the dimensions of a nuclear field, the structure of atoms, or the electricity that flows through copper wiring.
People are the stocks into which we are to invest our time … the best of all investments you can make is to help people come to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior. You can make a commitment right here and now … I’m asking you today not to graduate but commence a new life for God every step of the way.
After I graduated from high school, one of the former workers on our farm asked if I would be willing to join him in selling Fuller brushes through the summer. It seemed like a perfect way to make some money for college. And being away from my parents and learning to make my own way gave me self confidence.
Is it not arrogance or narrow-mindedness to claim that there is only one way of salvation or that the way we follow is the right way? I think not. After all, do we fault a pilot for being narrow-minded when he follows the instrument panel while landing in a rainstorm? No, we want him to remain narrowly focused!
In my family we got up in the mornings around three o’clock and went out to the barns to bring the cows in and milk. In high school I milked about twenty cows every morning and about twenty in the afternoon when I got home. I have wonderful memories from those early days when my parent’s influence was so strong.
Most of us do not understand nuclear fission, but we accept it. I don’t understand television, but I accept it. I don’t understand radio, but every week my voice goes out around the world, and I accept it. Why is it so easy to accept all these man-made miracles and so difficult to accept the miracles of the Bible?
I’m not a righteous man. People put me up on a pedestal that I don’t belong in my personal life. And they think that I’m better than I am. I’m not the good man that people think I am. Newspapers and magazines and television have made me out to be a saint. I’m not. I’m not a Mother Teresa. And I feel that very much.
The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, “If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.” The sooner we accept that as a fact of life, the better we will be able to adjust to each other and enjoy togetherness. “Happily incompatible” is a good adjustment.
Suppose someone should offer me a plateful of crumbs after I had eaten a T-bone steak. I would say, “No, thank you. I am already satisfied.” Christian, that is the secret – you can be so filled with the things of Christ, so enamored with the things of God that you do not have time for the sinful pleasures of the world.
It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before the horse. They are teaching purity of motives, desires, and actions to old, deceitful hearts! No wonder we have ended up such moral failures, in spite of our vaunted knowledge and psychological approaches.
I think that hell essentially is separation from God forever. And that is the worst hell that I can think of. But I think people have a hard time believing God is going to allow people to burn in literal fire forever. I think the fire that is mentioned in the Bible is a burning thirst for God that can never be quenched.
America’s founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation’s greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.
I also would have steered clear of politics. Iôm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to. But looking back I know I sometimes cros¬≠sed the line, and I wouldnôt do that now.
You cannot come to Christ unless the Spirit of God brings you. But what if you ignore His warnings? Then you are in the gravest danger, for some day God will no longer be speaking to you. Then it will be too late. Come to Christ while there is still time. Christ, God’s greater Ark, stands ready to welcome you to safety today.
I will buy you back with My blood because I love you. I will free you from the chains of sin. I will settle the conflict within and give peace to your soul. But you must come to Me with a repentant heart. You must be willing to be redeemed. You must exchange your sin-blackened heart for a new heart that is cleansed by My blood.
When we live apart from God, our lives get out of tune – out of harmony with others and with God. But if we live in tune with the Master, we, too, will find ourselves surrounded by His beautiful music. As this new year begins, ask God to help you tune your life every day to His Word, so you can bring harmony and joy to those around you.
As a Christian I have hope not just for this life but for Heaven and the life to come. And many of those people who died this past week are in Heaven right now. And they wouldn’t want to come back; it’s so glorious and so wonderful. And that’s the hope for all of us who put our faith in God. I pray that you will have this hope in your heart.
It should not be surprising if people believe easily in a God who makes no demands, but this is not the God of the Bible. Satan has cleverly misled people by whispering that they can believe in Jesus Christ without being changed, but this is the Devil’s lie. To those who say you can have Christ without giving anything up, Satan is deceiving you.
And all of a sudden, all of my sins came before me. Everything I had ever done wrong that I had forgotten about years ago came into my mind. And I prayed, Lord, forgive me, may the blood of Jesus Christ cleanse me from all of my sins… not because of my good works or because of all the things I have tried to do, but because the Lord had forgiven me.
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.
Faith is the avenue to salvation. Not intellectual understanding. Not money. Not your works. Just simple faith. How much faith? The faith of a mustard seed, so small you can hardly see it. But if you will put that little faith in the person of Jesus, your life will be changed. He will come with supernatural power into your heart. It can happen to you.
I think most presidents are amazed at the overwhelming responsibility they have when they enter office and the tremendous amount of work there is. See, a modern president has far more responsibility than a president years ago. And if I were rewriting the Constitution, I would suggest a president be more like a monarch and then have a prime minister under him.
Our days are numbered. One of the primary goals in our lives should be to prepare for our last day. The legacy we leave is not just in our possessions, but in the quality of our lives. What preparations should we be making now? The greatest waste in all of our earth, which cannot be recycled or reclaimed, is our waste of the time that God has given us each day.
My job is simply to proclaim the Gospel, and to let the Spirit of God apply in the individual hearts. When I give the invitation for people to receive Christ it will be so quiet you can hear a pin drop. And you will see people coming forward deliberately, quietly, reverently, thoughtfully, and many of their lives. . . . will have been transformed and changed in that moment.
Ruth and I don’t have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. How can I say two things that seem so contradictory? In a perfect marriage, everything is always the finest and best imaginable; like a Greek statue, the proportions are exact and the finish is unblemished. Who knows any human being lke that? For a marriage couple to expect perfection in each other is unrealistic.
We never know when we too will be called into eternity. I doubt if even one of those people who got on those planes or walked into the World Trade Center or the Pentagon last Tuesday morning thought it would be the last day of their lives. They didn’t – it didn’t occur to them. And that’s why each of us needs to face our own spiritual need and commit ourselves to God and his will now.
I’m against divorce. I think the Bible teaches that divorce is wrong, but at the same time, I also believe that the Bible has a leave way; Jesus said that a person should not be divorced and should not be separated. But in the Old Testament, men could have more than one wife under certain circumstances. And there must be reasons for that. And I think that some of them are valid reasons.
You possess a non-renewable resource, which is headed toward total depletion and that resource is time. You can either invest your life or let it dribble through your fingers like sand in an hour glass. If there is ever a time to redeem every second, every minute it is now. You may never have tomorrow. You can’t count your days, but with the Lord as your Savior you can make your days count.
MAN is a social animal, gregarious by nature, and finds his greatest sense of security and satisfaction in the company of others who share his interests and attitudes. Of all the many groups into which humans have collected themselves, of all the many tribes, clans, organizations, and societies throughout history, none has been so powerful, so far-reaching, or more universal than the church.
Angels are God’s messengers whose chief business is to carry out his orders in the world. He has given them an ambassadorial charge. He has designated and empowered them as holy deputies to perform works of righteousness. In this way they assist him as their creator while he sovereignly controls the universe. So he has given them the capacity to bring holy enterprises to a successful conclusion.
The Evangelistic Harvest is always urgent. The destiny of men and of nations is always being decided. Every generation is strategic. We are not responsible for the past generation, and we cannot bear the full responsibility for the next one; but we do have our generation. God will hold us responsible as to how well we fulfill our responsibilities to this age and take advantage of our opportunities.
“What is the greatest surprise you have found about life?” a university student asked me several years ago. “The brevity of it,” I replied without hesitation. Time moves so quickly, and no matter who we are or what we have done, the time will come when our lives will be over. As Jesus said, “As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work” (John 9:4).
Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched by pain tend to be shallow in their perspectives on life. Suffering, on the other hand, tends to plow up the surface of our lives to uncover the depths that provide greater strength of purpose and accomplishment. Only deeply plowed earth can yield bountiful harvests.
To a large extent, the American church has become merged with the world. It has adopted so many of the world’s ideals and standards that it has lost its ability to stem the tide of crime, deception and immorality that is sweeping the nation. For millions of church members there is no deep commitment to the cause of Christ, no regularity of attendance at public worship, no sacrificial giving, no personal religious discipline.
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.
I am constantly concerned about being quoted in the press and perhaps saying the wrong thing or having what I say misinterpreted and bringing reproach to the name of Christ. People do not come to hear what Billy Graham has to say; they want to hear what God has to say. Jesus tells us not to be misled by the voices of strangers. There are so many strange voices being heard in the religious world of our day. We must compare what they say with the Word of God.
I don’t think there is anything wrong with a man who wants to give credit to the Lord, but I don’t think the team with the most Christians on it is necessarily going to win. The Lord may be helping their characters and souls, but I don’t think he’s any more for the Dodgers than he is for the Braves. More than being concerned with who’s going to win the Super Bowl, I feel the Lord is probably more concerned that they might find a day other than Sunday to play it on.
Art and education may refine the taste, but they cannot purify the heart and regenerate the individual. His (Christôs) words were simple yet profound. And they shook people, provoking either happy acceptance or violent refection. People were never the same after listening to him¶.The people who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
What God is doing today is calling people out of the world for His name. Whether they come from the Muslim world, or the Buddhist world, or the Christian world, or the non-believing world, they are members of the body of Christ because they’ve been called by God. They may not even know the name of Jesus, but they know in their hearts they need something that they don’t have and they turn to the only light they have and I think they’re saved and they’re going to be with us in heaven.
America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can’t even entertain themselves. They have to pay other people to amuse them, to make then laugh, to try to make them feel warm and happy and comfortable for a few minutes, to try to lose that awful, frightening, hollow feeling-that terrible, dreaded feeling of being lost and alone.
On Nov. 6, the day before my 94th birthday, our nation will hold one of the most critical elections in my lifetime. We are at a crossroads and there are profound moral issues at stake. I strongly urge you to vote for candidates who support the biblical definition of marriage between a man and a woman, protect the sanctity of life and defend our religious freedoms. The Bible speaks clearly on these crucial issues. Please join me in praying for America, that we will turn our hearts back toward God.
The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control. My heart aches for America and its deceived people. The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance. In Jonah’s day, Nineveh was the lone world superpower-wealthy, unconcerned, and self-centered. When the Prophet Jonah finally traveled to Nineveh and proclaimed God’s warning, people heard and repented. I believe the same thing can happen once again, this time in our nation. It’s something I long for.
We have resorted to every means to win back the position that Adam lost. We have tried through education, through philosophy, through religion, through governments to throw off our yoke of depravity and sin. All our knowledge, all our inventions, all our developments and ambitious plans move us ahead only a very little before we drop back again to the point from which we started. For we are still making the same mistake that Adam made – – we are still trying to be king in our own right, and with our own power, instead of obeying God’s law.
Dogs are quick to show their affection. They never pout, they never bear a grudge. They never run away from home when mistreated. They never complain about their food. They never gripe about the way the house is kept. They are chivalrous and courageous, ready to protect their mistress at the risk of their lives. They love children, and no matter how noisy and boisterous they are, the dog loves every minute of it. In fact, a dog is still competition for a husband. Perhaps if we husbands imitated a few of our dog’s virtues, life with our family might be more amiable.
God did not create the strife between races, nor did He intend for it to be that way. Strife between races and ethnic groups comes from sin-and sin resides in the human heart. The Bible says, úWhat causes fights and quarrels among you? Donôt they come from your desires that battle within you? (James 4:1). When one group or one race claims it is superior to another, pride has taken control-and pride is a sin.Instead, God wants us to learn to accept each other and love each other-and this becomes possible, as we turn our lives over to Christ and allow Him to change us from within.
One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born. The innkeeper was not hostile; he was not opposed to them, but his inn was crowded; his hands were full; his mind was preoccupied. This is the answer that millions are giving today. Like a Bethlehem innkeeper, they cannot find room for Christ. All the accommodations in their hearts are already taken up by other crowding interests. Their response is not atheism. It is not defiance. It is preoccupation and the feeling of being able to get on reasonably well without Christianity.

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