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"War is only one facet of the larger problem of evil which has been with the human race since the beginning . . .This same evil tried to destroy the greatest human being who ever lived, nailing Him to a cross."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Philosophy, Evil, Only, Human

"Heaven is a wonderful place and the benefits for the believer are out of this world!"

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Philosophy, Place, Heaven, Wonderful

"God does not want an apartment in our house. He claims our entire home from attic to cellar."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Philosophy, Want, Does, Apartment

"Thought, if I may put it, is the man behind the possession, appearance, things we like, things we hate and the very epitome of life."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Philosophy, Thought, Possession, Appearance, Life

"We should not covet or expect the praise of ungodly men . . . the very fact that they are inclined to persecute us is proof that we are “not of the world."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Philosophy, Covet, Expect, Should

"A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Philosophy, Wonder, Existence, Stars, Curiosity

"Heavenly rest will be so refreshing that we will never feel that exhaustion of mind and body we so frequently experience now. I'm really looking forward to that."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Philosophy, Will, Rest, Heavenly

"It is what it is because you let it be so."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

Philosophy, Acceptance, Reality, Responsibility, Choice

"I am the creation of love.I am the source of love.I am the beginning of love.I like to vanish in love."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Philosophy, Creation, Love, Self, Beginning

"I believe there is an obedience to the Gospel, there is a self-denial and a bearing of the cross, if you are to be a follower of Christ. Being a Christian is a serious business."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Philosophy, Believe, Obedience, There

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"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

Time, People

"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."

Grief, Memory, Death, Presence

"It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so very often the weight of the past lies ineluctably upon the present. But that is why it is so real in memory, so wholly itself, so far beyond replacement."

Memory, Past, Reality, Regret

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."

Wisdom, Journey

"I have built, deep in my heart, a chapel filled with you."

Spiritual, Love, Faith, Heart

"Perhaps she would not have thought of wickedness as a state so rare, so abnormal, so exotic, one which it was so refreshing to visit, had she been able to distinguish in herself, as in all her fellow-men and women, that indifference to the sufferings which they cause which, whatever names else be given it, is the one true, terrible and lasting form of cruelty."

Ethics, Cruelty, Indifference, Morality, Behavior

"A fashionable milieu is one in which everybody's opinion is made up of the opinion of all the others. Has everybody a different opinion? Then it is a literary milieu."

Lifestyle, Literary, Opinion

"The so-called sensitivity of neurotics develops along with their egotism, they cannot bear for other people to flaunt the sufferings with which they are increasingly preoccupied themselves."

Psychology, Ego, Suffering, Empathy, Mind

"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."

Chance, Memory, Poison

"It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions."

Mind, State