Jesus was born with the cross darkening His pathway . . . From the cradle to the cross, [Jesus’] purpose was to die.


Billy Graham

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While our world is shaking and crumbling, we need to realize that one thing will never change, and t...
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Kindness is an essential part of God's work and ours here on earth.
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God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.
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Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything
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I can tell you that God is alive because I talked to him this morning.
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God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.
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Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may ri...
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The only thing I could say for sure is that hell means separation from God. We are separated from hi...
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Theology never changes. A man's heart is the same. The Gospel is the same. There have been no additi...
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they starve. Period.
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We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's en...
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A real Christian is the one who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip
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When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral i...
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Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last...
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There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe...
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[It] is well and good when our convictions are based upon the “Thou shalts” and the “Thou shal...
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Because President Clinton has been a friend for so many years, I feel like it is very difficult afte...
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Two thousand years ago God invited a morally corrupt world to the foot of the cross. There God held ...
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It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put [Jesus] on the cross—it was your sins and my s...
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It has been said there was a cross in the heart of God long before the cross was erected at Calvary....
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Sin is serious—so serious it sent Jesus Christ to the cross. Flee from [sin] and stay close to Chr...
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The cross has become a symbol in much of the Western world, misused by many rock stars and others wh...
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Sin’s masterpiece of shame and hate became God’s masterpiece of mercy and forgiveness. Through t...
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Jesus Christ opened heaven’s door for us by His death on the cross.
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The law enables us to see ourselves as morally dirty and in need of cleansing. But it also points us...
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When Jesus hung on the cross, a great unseen cosmic battle raged in the heavens—and in the end, Ch...
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The cross shows the seriousness of our sin—
but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God...
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One-third of Matthew . . . one-third of Mark . . . one-fourth of Luke, and one-half of John are give...
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Be willing to be sneered at than to be approved, counting the cross of Christ greater riches than al...
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Great crowds followed our Lord . . . as He healed the sick, raised the dead, and fed the hungry. How...
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Sin was conquered on the cross. [Christ’s] death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our...
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Had Satan not set himself in opposition to God . . . there would have been no need for God to send H...
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If Jesus had not risen from the dead, no right-minded person would have glorified anything so hideou...
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God undertook the most dramatic rescue operation in cosmic history. He determined to save the human ...
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Why is it that the cross has become the symbol of Christianity? It is because at the cross Jesus pur...
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The cross is the suffering love of God bearing the guilt of man’s sin, which alone is able to melt...
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The heart of the Christian Gospel with its incarnation and atonement is in the cross and the resurre...
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The ground is level at the foot of the cross.
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Once you have been to the cross, you will never be the same.
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The greatest vision of sin that a person can
ever receive is to look at the cross.
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Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and gui...
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The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent...
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To take up your cross means to associate yourself with Christ and to share His rejection. It means y...
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Though the cross repels, it also attracts. It possesses a magnetic quality.
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The cross is the only way of salvation. And the cross gives a new purpose to life.
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It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.
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The second coming of Christ will be so revolutionary that it will change every aspect of life on thi...
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End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- insp...
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