Billy Graham Love Quotes

#1. Children do need the guidance of their parents, and we guide them more by the example we set than by any other way. We need to be firm and sane and fair and consistent - and, above all, we need to discipline in a spirit of love.

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#2. 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.

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#3. Until the Good News of Jesus Christ burst onto the human scene,
the word love was understood mostly in terms of seeking one's own advantage. Loving the unlovely was incomprehensible
A loving God reaching down to sinful humans was unthinkable.

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#4. The self-life manifests itself in self-indulgences, such as self-love, self-will, self-seeking, self-pride ... It takes self-denial to turn off the television and spend [time] in prayer ... and read the Scriptures ... the only object in life is that Christ may be honored.

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#5. I never try to defend religion. Religion has spawned wars. Many so-called religious people have been characterized by prejudice, pride, and bickering ... I would call you to a simple faith in Jesus, who said, Love your neighbor as yourself.

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#6. We should be about our Father's business by pouring His compassionate love into aching and parched souls that have nowhere to turn, no one to love, and no one to care. Let them see Jesus in us. That is a living testimony.

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#7. In many ways we were what Billy and Ruth Graham called 'happily incompatible'.

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#8. God is sending forth His message of love, but you must tune in. You must be willing to listen and to receive His message and then to obey it.

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#9. Evil is real - but so is God's power and love.

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#10. God's love did not begin at the cross. It began in eternity before the world was established, before the time clock of civilization began to move.

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#11. The first and second commandments are the only therapy the world has ever needed. "Thou 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].

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#12. Scripture makes it clear that our first love is always to be for our Lord.

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#13. True love is an act of the will - a conscious decision to do what is best for the other person instead of ourselves.

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#14. Only God can break down the national and racial barriers that divide men today. Only God can supply that love that we must have for our fellowman. We will never build brotherhood of man upon earth until we are believers in Christ Jesus.

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#15. Faith in Christ is voluntary. A person cannot be coerced, bribed, or tricked into trusting Jesus. God will not force His way into your life. The Holy Spirit will do everything possible to disturb you, draw you, love you - but finally it is your personal decision.

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#16. Worship in the truest sense takes place only when our full attention is on God - on His glory, power, majesty, love and compassion.

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#17. 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.

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#18. Agape love is selfless love ... the love God wants us to have isn't just an emotion but a conscious act of the will - a deliberate decision on our part to put others ahead of ourselves. This is the kind of love God has for us.

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#19. [The] love of God that reaches to wherever man is, can be entirely rejected. God will not force Himself upon anyone against his will. It is your part to believe. It is your part to receive. Nobody else can do it for you.

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#20. The Bible is God's love letter to us.

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#21. The devil's overriding goal is to block God's work - and if he can convince you God doesn't really love you, or that you can't fully trust Him, then he has blocked God's work in your life and achieved his goal.

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#22. The cross is the suffering love of God bearing the guilt of man's sin, which alone is able to melt the sinner's heart and bring him to repentance for salvation. "For he hath made him to be sin for us" [2 Corinthians 5:21 KJV].

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#23. There is one thing God's love cannot do. It cannot forgive the unrepentant sinner.

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#24. Think of working forever at something you love to do, for [the] one you love with all your heart, and never getting tired! We will never know weariness in heaven.

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#25. God's judgment echoes the sound of hoofbeats, but God's love quietly convicts.

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#26. [Christians] are commanded to love our neighbors, and the first step in doing this is to show a watching world that Christ reigns within us.

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#27. When our faith becomes nothing more than a series of rules and regulations, joy flees and our love for Christ grows cold.

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#28. God gave the Bible to us because He wants us to know Him and love Him and serve Him. Most of all, He gave it to us so we can become more like Christ.

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#29. We have exchanged love of family and home for cyberfriends and living in constant motion that robs the soul from memories - and perhaps from that still, small voice that longs to be heard.

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#30. The same Book that tells us over and over again of God's love warns us constantly of the devil who would come between us and God, the devil who is ever waiting to ensnare men's souls.

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#31. I believe we should pray that God will take possession of our lives totally and completely. We should pray that we will be emptied of self - self-love, self-will, self-ambition - and be placed completely at His disposal.

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#32. Our popular music talks constantly about love, and yet divorce rates skyrocket.

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#33. We live in an upside-down world. People hate when they should love, quarrel when they should be friendly, fight when they should be peaceful, wound when they should heal, steal when they should share,
do wrong when they should do right.

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#34. The mystery of God's love would not be a mystery if we knew all the answers.

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#35. Speak about the love of God and faces light up, but speak of God as a Judge, and our attitudes change.

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#36. Our culture puts feelings first, but true love isn't based on feelings. That is why there are so many divorces today. When the early romantic feelings in a marriage do not remain constant ... many people believe divorce is the answer.

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#37. Thousands of young couples go through with a loveless marriage because no one ever told them what genuine love is. If people today knew that kind of love, the divorce rate would be sharply reduced.

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#38. Our creativity, our inner sense of right and wrong, our ability to love and to reason - all bear witness to the fact that God created us in His image. The Bible says God "has not left himself without testimony" [Acts 14:17 NIV].

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#39. God has not changed. His laws have not changed. He is still a God of love and mercy But He is also a God of righteousness and judgment.

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#40. God is not blind. He knows about you and your problems. He knows of those who are suffering ... and His love for His children will never leave in times of trouble.

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#41. When Christ's love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run.

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#42. God's love is unchangeable; He knows exactly what we are and loves us anyway.

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#43. It has been said there was a cross in the heart of God long before the cross was erected at Calvary. As we think about it we will be overwhelmed at the wonder and greatness of His love for us.

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#44. I'll tell you what, I love my daddy. And he's so special. He's meant so much to me, so it's not a thorn in my side to be known as Billy Graham's daughter. It's a privilege.

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#45. God called me many years ago to be an evangelist, and I have never regretted His leading. I love the crusades, meeting people from every country and culture all over the world. My life has been blessed by friends from every land, and challenges from every corner.

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#46. When God forgives, there is an immediate and
complete change in relationship. Instead of hostility, there is love and acceptance. Instead of enmity, there is friendship.

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#47. A good marriage is not "made in heaven," but on earth. Love is a fragile commodity which needs to be cultivated and nourished constantly.

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#48. A God of love must be a God of justice. It is because God loves that He is just. His justice balances His love and makes His acts of both
love and justice meaningful.

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#49. 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.

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#50. We live in an upside-down world, in which people hate what they should love and love what they should hate.

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#51. No one can grasp the love of the God of the universe without knowing His Son.

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#52. When you truly love someone, you want to please and honor them by the way you act. How you treat someone shows whether or not you really care about them.

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#53. I believe one reason that God allows poverty and suffering is so that His followers may demonstrate Christ's love, mercy, and comfort to [others].

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#54. The cross shows the seriousness of our sin
but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.

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#55. Love your children - and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.

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#56. Spiritually, we have wandered far from the faith of our fathers ... no nation which relegates the Bible to the background, which disregards the love of God and flouts the claims of the Man of Galilee, can long survive.

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#57. What relationships need strengthening in your life? Don't wait for them to grow cold or bitter, but ask God to help you strengthen them by putting God's love into action - begin today.

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#58. The converted person will love the good he once hated, and hate the sin he once loved.

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#59. God's holiness demands that sin be punished - but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.

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#60. Satan will do everything he can to divide Christians and destroy our witness. Only the Holy Spirit can subdue our old nature and overcome it with God's love.

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#61. Disappointment and failure are not signs that God has forsaken you or stopped loving you. The devil wants you to believe God no longer loves you, but it isn't true. God's love for us never fails.

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#62. 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.

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#63. I realize more than ever that this ministry has been a team effort. Without the help of our prayer partners, our financial supporters, our staff, and our board of directors - this ministry and all of our dreams to spread the Good News of God's love throughout the world would not have been possible.

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#64. It was God's love which knew that men were incapable of obeying His law, and it was His love which promised a Redeemer, a Savior, who would save His people from their sins.

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#65. God's grace - His goodness and love toward us in spite of our sin - is the wellspring of our salvation.

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#66. 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.

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#67. 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.

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#68. God is love means that He tries constantly
to block your route to destruction.

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#69. God could not consistently love men if He did not provide for the judgment of evildoers.

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#70. God didn't make Adam and Eve because He was lonely or because He needed someone to love Him in return. God is complete in Himself; He lacks nothing. God's love compelled Him to create [humanity]. His love was expressed in the creation of the human race.

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#71. If we truly love Christ, we will want to please and honor Him by the way we live. Even the thought of hurting Him or bringing disgrace to His name will be abhorrent to us.

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#72. 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.

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