Billy Graham

There is not one verse of Scripture that indicates you can be a Christian and live any kind of a life you want to. When Christ enters into the human heart, He expects to be Lord and Master. He commands complete surrender.

Some teach __niversalism___hat eventually everybody will be saved and the God of love will never send anyone to hell. They believe the words __ternal_ or __verlasting_ do not actually mean forever. However, the same word which speaks of eternal banishment from God is also used for the eternity of heaven.

The Bible says more about hell than about heaven.

The church in America has been deeply infiltrated by the __orld,_ and in the process it is beginning to copy and resemble the world in many of its activities.

There are many who sit in some churches week after week, year after year, without hearing the whole Gospel and knowing what it is to be born again. They hear a gospel which is incomplete, and consequently not good news at all.

There are countless opportunities to comfort others, not only in the loss of a loved one, but also in the daily distress that so often creeps into our lives.

The church isn__ just a particular building or congregation but the spiritual fellowship of all who belong to Jesus Christ. If we belong to Christ, we also belong to each other.

Where there is truth and error there is always compromise. Within some churches there is a movement to reshape the Christian messageto make it more acceptable to man.

The church is far greater than [a building or denomination]. It includes the whole family of God__hat vast unseen fellowship of men and women throughout the ages who belong to Christ. Paul wrote of __od__ household, which is the church of the living God_ [1 Timothy 3:15 NIV).

The church should be setting the pace. The church should be taking its proper place of leadership in the nation . . .God help the church to wake up!

Jesus expects one hundred percent surrender, and when that is accomplished He rewards a thousandfold.

The Bible is intensely practical, and one of the reasons God gave it to us is so we__l be better prepared to deal with life__ problems and temptations. All too often we respond to these in ways that don__ reflect Christ . . .when we do that, Satan is the winner and the cause of Christ suffers.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.

Unless the church quickly recovers the authoritative biblical message, we may witness the spectacle of millions of Christians going outside the institutional church to find spiritual food.

The first and second commandments are the only therapy the world has ever needed. __hou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind . . . Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself_ [Matthew 22:37, 39 KJV].

Our world today is looking for men and women with integrity, for communicators who back up their ministry with their lives. Our preaching emerges out of what we are. We are called to be a holy people__eparated from the moral evils of the world.

Be attractive and winsome, but do not compromise your convictions for the sake of popularity.