Billy Graham

When one bears suffering faithfully, God is glorified and honored.

[God] created us free to choose how we would live . . . but leaves us free to pursue our own ends with tragic, natural consequences.

By faith I accepted Him for what He claimed to be, the Son of the Living God. That simple decision changed my life__nd I have seen it change the lives of countless others across the world.

[The Holy Spirit] will remain with every believer right to the end. This thought has encouraged me a thousand times in these dark days when satanic forces are at work.

The most important decision you will ever make is the decision you make about eternity.

If we who have the Holy Spirit living and working within us falter and fail, what hope is there for the rest of the world?

[Today] there is less emphasis on redemption by the blood of Christ.

Have you ever seen a person who was receiving a blood transfusion? The blood was precious, life-giving, and certainly not repulsive. The blood of Christ may seem to be a grim and repulsive subject . . .[but] the blood of Christ is precious.

Christians should seek after holiness__ithout which no man shall see the Lord. Let us seek ardently the kind of life that reflects the beauty of Jesus and marks us as being what saints ought to be!

Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality of such a place.

Men and women do make decisions wherever the Gospel is proclaimed; whether publicly or privately, some say yes, some say no, and some procrastinate. No one ever hears the Gospel proclaimed without making some kind of decision!

Look up on a starry night, and you will see the majesty and power of an infinite Creator.

The Bible is the one book which reveals the Creator to the creature He created! No other book that man has conceived can make that statement and support it with fact.

Jesus does not allow us to be neutral about Him. Jesus demands that we decide about Him.

How often do we lie simply because we are trying to build ourselves up in the eyes of others? How often do we gossip because we want to appear __n the know,__r because we are trying to make ourselves appear better than someone else? The Bible's command is clear: [__ave regard for good things in the sight of all men_ (Romans 12:17 NKJV)].

The journey God has set before us isn__ a freeway; we are constantly encountering forks and junctions and crossroads. Which way will we go when we meet them? Life is filled with decisions, and we can__ avoid them.

[While] disappointment and failure aren__ identical, they often occur together, and both can hold us back from God__ best for our lives.

Church is not for pretenders and performers. Church is a place for pastors to preach principles of the faith in order to prepare believers to face the storms of life on the stage of an unbelieving world.