Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.


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