Billy Graham Quotes About Desire
-
I don't go out and preach because of my desire as much as I go out to fulfill the command of Christ. He said, "Go!" to all of His disciples, and we're to go and witness to Christ by the way we live and by our verbal witness about the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ and about the need to repent and believe. I've never had any doubts about my call.
→ -
It is impossible to live pure lives until we have pure hearts. Many people today are trying to put the cart before the horse. They are teaching purity of motives, desires, and actions to old, deceitful hearts! No wonder we have ended up such moral failures, in spite of our vaunted knowledge and psychological approaches.
→ -
God did not create the strife between races, nor did He intend for it to be that way. Strife between races and ethnic groups comes from sin-and sin resides in the human heart. The Bible says, “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?” (James 4:1). When one group or one race claims it is superior to another, pride has taken control-and pride is a sin.Instead, God wants us to learn to accept each other and love each other-and this becomes possible, as we turn our lives over to Christ and allow Him to change us from within.
→ -
But those who chose to reject God during their lifetime on earth will be separated from him for eternity. This is not God's desire, but man's own choice. God holds every man accountable for his rejection of Christ.
→ -
Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.
→
Related Authors
-
Rick Warren Pastor -
Jimmy Swaggart Televangelist -
Charles Stanley Pastor -
John Hagee Pastor -
Ruth Graham Author -
Charles Templeton Cartoonist -
Max Lucado Author -
Kenneth Copeland Author -
Cliff Barrows Music Director -
Johnny Cash Singer-songwriter -
Franklin Graham Evangelist -
Benny Hinn Televangelist -
Jerry Falwell Pastor -
Joel Osteen Preacher -
Gigi Graham Writer -
Tullian Tchividjian Pastor -
John Wesley Theologian -
Robert H. Schuller Televangelist -
Oral Roberts Televangelist -
Anne Graham Lotz Evangelist