Billy Graham

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.Let me explain what I mean by this. If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.Let's take this a step further. Robots do not love. God created us with the capacity to love. Love is based upon one's right to choose to love. We cannot force others to love us. We can make them serve us or obey us. But true love is founded upon one's freedom to choose to respond.

The first hint of the Gospel comes from Genesis 3:15, this is the first promise of salvation.

Our chaotic, confused world has no greater need than to hear the message of good news__he Gospel of Jesus Christ.

I realize that my ministry would someday come to an end. I am only one in a glorious chain of men and women God has raised up through the centuries to build Christ__ church and take the Gospel everywhere.

The happiness which brings enduring worth to life is not the superficial happiness that is dependent on circumstances. It is the happiness and contentment that fills the soul even in the midst of the most distressing circumstances and the most bitter environment. It is the kind of happiness that grins when things go wrong and smiles through the tears. The happiness for which our souls ache is one undisturbed by success or failure, one which will deeply root inside us and give us inward relaxation, peace, and contentment, no matter what the surface problems may be. That kind of happiness stands in need of no outward stimulas.

The Bible says there is a certain pleasure in sin.However, it is short-lived and fatal.

Sin is the great clogger, and the blood of Christ is the great cleanser.

[Christians] are commanded to warn the nations of the world that they must repent and turn to God while there is yet time.

Jesus Christ is God in human flesh, and the story of His life, death, and resurrection is the only Good News the world will ever hear.

My job is to preach the Gospel, which has the power to change men__ lives from the inside out.

It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The Gospel did not come into being because men believed it . . .The fact always precedes the faith.

Repentance is mentioned seventy times in the New Testament . . . the Bible says God commands repentance . . . it is a command . . .God says, __epent! Or perish!

The cause of all trouble, the root of all sorrow, the dread of every man lies in this one small word__in. It has crippled the nature of man . . .It has caused man to be caught in the devil__ trap.

We can be convicted of sin__e can pray and confess our sin__e can repent__ut the real test is our willingness to obey.

True repentance is a turning from sin . . . Humanly speaking, it is our small part in the plan of salvation. Our part is repenting. God will do the converting, the transforming, and the forgiving.

When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know it is dead wrong.

A transformed life is the greatest of all miracles. Every time a person is __orn again_ by repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ, the miracle of regeneration is performed.

When most major Protestant denominations have their annual councils, assemblies, or conventions, they make pronouncements on matters having to do with disarmament, federal aid to education, birth control, the United Nations, and any number of social and political issues. Very rarely are any resolutions passed that have to do with theredemptive witness of the Gospel.