[There are] seven gifts God gives you when you commit your life to Christ: a new relationship, a new citizenship, a new family, a new purpose, a new power, a new destiny, and a new journey.
~ Billy Graham
The closer you are to God, the farther you are from the devil.
Some things never change. Not the ABC’s, not the multiplication tables, not God!
When God speaks to us, He should have our full attention.
God has paid the greatest debt you will ever incur, and once you understand the incredible sacrifice He has made just for you, you will feel compelled to turn to God and to accept Jesus Christ into your heart.
Benevolent hands reach down from heaven to offer us the most hopeful warning and remedy: “Prepare to meet your God.
Authentic Christian living has its own order of priority in our lives: God first, others second, self third.
All believers are called to be holy in mind, body, and spirit (1 Peter 1:15).
If we are living according to what we believe, we may be falsely accused.
Make it your goal to become more like Christ by refusing to let sin have its way, and pursuing instead that which is pure and good in the sight of God.
We often seek to please ourselves first, instead of God. What is interesting is that when we seek to please God first, very often we discover that we end up far more pleased than we did when we put ourselves first.
I am engaged in spiritual warfare every day. I must never let down my guard—I must keep armed.
Being” is far more important than “doing.” When we are what we should be inside, we will bring forth fruit.
Submission . . . involves getting rid of everything which hinders God’s control over our lives.
Whatever is unlike Christ in conduct, speech, or disposition grieves the Spirit of grace.
To be Spirit-filled is to be controlled or dominated by the Spirit’s presence and power.
The lives of many reflect the practices and standards of this present world . . . they are more interested in imitating the world system dominated by Satan than in imitating Christ.
When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God.
We have been told by God that if we sin against Him and break His commandments, He will bring judgment upon the world. It is my responsibility and my duty as a minister of the Gospel to [warn] people. This is the message I must deliver.
Denying the existence of God cannot make Him go away any more than denying the existence of the Internal Revenue Service can make the tax man vanish. Many people who imagine a god of their own choosing will be horrified when they stand before the true God of heaven.
Extremes should be avoided.
[Our] minds are molded in many different ways— often in ways we are not aware of at the time. I am convinced that many things—the films we watch, the television we see, the music we listen to, the books we read—have a great effect on us.
The more we yield to pressure, the more easily we will yield next time.
Delighting in the Lord alters the desires.
Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.
Most of us know about God, but that is quite different from knowing God.
The wheels of [God’s] mercy and justice move quietly and silently, but they do move.
God is not bound by a body, yet He is a Person. He feels, He thinks, He loves, He forgives, He sympathizes with the problems and sorrows that we face.
If God can be fully proved by the human mind, then He is no greater than the mind that proves Him.
God can be everywhere at once, heeding the prayers of all who call out in the name of Christ; performing the mighty miracles that keep the stars in their places, and the plants bursting up through the earth, and the fish swimming in the sea. There is no limit to God. There is no limit to His wisdom. There is no limit to His power. There is no limit to His love. There is no limit to His mercy.
Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn’t in you. Church can become a drab thing and the Bible an irksome Book if the Holy Spirit does not illuminate your soul with His indwelling presence.
At this crucial point in world history, everyone should be seeking an answer to the question, “What is God like?” Everyone should ask it, and everyone should make very sure of the answer . . . The Bible says, “. . . God has shown it to them” [Romans 1:19 NKJV].
Nothing in our lives takes God by surprise.
God is not a bargaining God. You cannot barter with Him. You must do business with Him on His own terms.
If we read the Bible as carefully and as regularly as we read the daily papers, we would be as familiar with and as well informed about God as we are about our favorite player’s batting average during baseball season!
We have a conception that God is a haphazard God with no set of rules of life and salvation. Ask the astronomer if God is a haphazard God. He will tell you that every star moves with precision in its celestial path.
If you have been trying to limit God—stop it! Don’t try to confine Him or His works to any single place or sphere. You wouldn’t try to limit the ocean.
Getting to know God and being able to call on Him is the most important step in storing up for the storms.
God began by revelation to build a bridge between Himself and people.
To live the life of God we must have the nature of God.
