Billy Graham

The Ten Commandments are just as valid today as they were when God gave them. They reflect the moral character of God, and they also provide the foundation of right living with others.

Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away.

Unless men of purpose, integrity, and faith stand together in unswerving loyalty to Jesus Christ, the future of the world is dark indeed.

There will come a time when people hungering for the truth will seek it where it is supposedly disseminated, such as books and churches, but they will not hear the Word of the Lord. Instead of receiving a message to satisfy their spiritual longings, they will hear a sermon on some current political or social problem, or a sermonette on art and literature. And so they wander from one place to another, going from hope to despair, and eventually giving up.

Truth is timeless. Truth does not differ from one age to another, from one people to another, from one geographical location to another . . . the great all-prevailing Truth stands for time and eternity.

A seminary professor I once knew told his students, __ever preach about hell without tears in your eyes.

God did not ordain that the church should drift aimlessly in the seas of uncertainty without compass, captain, or crew.

People judge us not by what we think or believe, but by what we do__nd when our lives don__ measure up, we lose their respect and they conclude our faith isn__ real.

The word church as applied to the Christian society was first used by Jesus Himself when He told Peter, __pon this rock I will build my church_ [Matthew 16:18]. He is the foundation of all Christian experience.

Many Christians give in to various temptations through peer pressure and find themselves surrendering to worldly passions, justifying pleasures the world offers.

Among those Christians to whom hell means little, Calvary means less.

Our emotions can lie to us, and we need to counter our emotions with truth.

Your life is intricately woven into the lives of scores and hundreds of others around you. Consider the variety of lives that you influence in one day. Somewhere within your circle of contacts someone is being hurt. Are you aware of it?

Pentecost was the day of power of the Holy Spirit. It was the day the Christian church was born.

Satan is the sower of compromise__eaving a bit of God__ truth into the dirty rags of sin. Satan is the commander in deceit, Satan is the ringleader in rebellion against the faithful.Satan is the sly serpent of temptation.Satan is the false hope of security.Satan is the great pretender.Satan is the great spoiler of everything good.And Satan wants to destroy you.

God speaks to us through our conscience. This may be a __till small voice_ that will not let us go until we do what we know is right . . .we must never silence that inner voice__but] check what we think it is saying against the Scriptures.

Thousands of uninstructed Christians are being deceived today.False teachers use high-sounding wordsthat seem like the epitome of scholarship and culture. They are intellectually clever and crafty . . .adept at beguiling thoughtless, untaught men and women.

Integrity means that we are trustworthy and dependable, and our character is above reproach.