The heart of the Christian Gospel with its incarnation and atonement is in the cross and the resurrection. Jesus was born to die.


Billy Graham

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BILLY GRAHAM
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...
BILLY GRAHAM
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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Jesus was born with the cross darkening His pathway . . . From the cradle to the cross, [Jesus’] p...
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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 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...
BILLY GRAHAM
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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