Billy Graham

There is hope for the alcoholic: God is able to deliver from this as well as any other addiction.

God isn__ finished with you when you retire! When we know Christ, we never retire from His service.

Thousands are killed and injured every year by teenagers driving too fast or under the influence of drugs and drink . . .others are killing [themselves] with alcohol or heroin overdoses.

[God] alone is perfect. Even His anger is righteous, because it is directed solely against evil.

Nations rise, they flourish for a time, and then they decline. Eventually every empire comes to an end; not even the greatest can last forever.

Many people are trying to steady themselves by taking tranquilizers. Jesus is the greatest tranquilizer of all. He can straighten out your life and put you back on center.

A terrifying spiritual and moral tide of evil has already loosed us from our spiritual moorings. Monstrous new ideas that could easily destroy our freedoms are rushing into the vacuum.

At the bitter end of an era of liberation__omen__ lib, kids_ lib, animal lib, and everything-but-ethics lib__merica has apparently been liberated from its moral foundations. But for too many, the good life has become a living hell.

Don__ let the acids of bitterness eat away inside. Learn the secret of trusting Christ in every circumstance.

The Bible stands as the supreme Constitution for all mankind, its laws applying equally to all who live under its domain, without exception or special interpretation.

Many people turn to alcohol to try to drown the [cries] and longings of the soul. Others attempt to quiet the longings of their souls in other ways. Nothing but God ever completely satisfies, because the soul is made for God.

When we approach the Bible as history and biography, we approach the Bible in the wrong spirit. We must read the Bible, not primarily as historians seeking information, but as men and women seeking God.

The Bible is the textbook of revelation.In God__ great classroom there are three textbooks__ne called nature, one called conscience, and one named Scripture. In the written textbook of revelation__he Bible__od speaks through words.

A senator once confided to me that the greatest need in Washington was the elimination of the cocktail party. He said: __t consumes so much of our time that we don__ have time for matters of state.

Do not seek solace in alcohol. Alcohol obscures good judgment and leaves you unable to think clearly or understand what God is trying to say to you.

Make use of this tool of communication by which God speaks to us__amely, the Bible! Read it, study it, memorize it. It will change your entire life. It is not like any other book. It is a __iving_ book that works its way into your heart, mind, and soul.

We face dangers every day of which we are not even aware. Often God intervenes on our behalf through the use of His angels.

What I find disturbing in America is the consuming desire for leisure, convenience, and fun. It seems we, as a nation, have traded God for gadgets. We have traded eternal truth for momentary self-gratification__orshipping false gods of materialism and humanism instead of the Creator of all things.