01c. 1968 ADGod gave us our children so we could prepare them to become adults.Billy Graham / quote ↗
02c. 1968 ADRuth once wrote, “Dear Journal, Never let a single day pass without saying an encouraging word to each child . . .‘More people fail for lack of encouragement,’ someone wrote, ‘than for any other reason.Billy Graham / quote ↗
04c. 1968 ADOne of the worst things we can do is allow our children to grow up thinking they don’t need to keep any rules. A spoiled child becomes a spoiled adult.Billy Graham / quote ↗
05c. 1968 ADLove your children—and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.Billy Graham / quote ↗
06c. 1968 ADIf a child is to survive, he or she must know the rules of safety. If he is to be healthy, he must know the rules of health. If he is to drive a car, he must know the rules of the road. If he is to become a ball player, he must learn the rules of the game. And, contrary to popular thinking, children appreciate rules.Billy Graham / quote ↗
07c. 1968 ADThere is always the exceptional child, but the average tells us that the child is largely what the home has made him.Billy Graham / quote ↗
08c. 1968 ADChildren respect discipline. They want to be guided. It gives them a sense of belonging, a sense of security.Billy Graham / quote ↗
09c. 1968 ADIf our children grow up with no understanding of right and wrong . . .no desire to live with integrity . . . no faith in God . . .their souls will be impoverished and they will miss life’s highest good.Billy Graham / quote ↗
10c. 1968 ADChildren do need the guidance of their parents, and we guide them more by the example we set than by any other way. We need to be firm and sane and fair and consistent—and, above all, we need to discipline in a spirit of love.Billy Graham / quote ↗
11c. 1968 ADMany children today are growing up without discipline. As they become adults and the discipline of job or family demands are placed upon them, they do not know how to cope . . .children need discipline to be useful members of society. Likewise, God’s children need discipline to be useful members of His family.Billy Graham / quote ↗
12c. 1968 ADIn a decadent society the will to believe, to resist, to contend, to fight, to struggle is gone. In place of this will to resist, there is the desire to conform, to drift, to follow, to yield, and not give up.Billy Graham / quote ↗
13c. 1968 ADSometimes I think the truly committed Christian is in conflict with society around him more than any other person. Society is going one direction, and the Christian is going in the opposite direction. This brings about friction and conflict. But God has promised, in the midst of trouble and conflict, a genuine peace, a sense of assurance and security, that the worldly person never knows.Billy Graham / quote ↗
14c. 1968 ADThe world does need changing, society needs changing, the nation needs changing, but we never will change it until we ourselves are changed.Billy Graham / quote ↗
15c. 1968 ADThe same conditions that prevailed in Rome prevail in our society. Before Rome fell, her standards were abandoned, the family disintegrated, divorce prevailed, immorality was rampant, and faith was at a low ebb.Billy Graham / quote ↗
16c. 1968 ADJesus indicated that there will be a permissive society just before He comes back . . . the world today is on an immoral binge such as has not been known since the days of Rome. We are in a hedonistic society, and what we are seeing is human nature expressing itself without God.Billy Graham / quote ↗
17c. 1968 ADSickness is deep within the soul of our society—and that has always been God’s exclusive territory.Billy Graham / quote ↗
18c. 1968 ADThe focus on self has led our society into a fascination with pleasure, emotional and sexual stimulation, and “personal fulfillment.” America’s compulsion for “maximum personhood” is evidenced everywhere.Billy Graham / quote ↗
19c. 1968 ADAre you disappointed with society? If you are,I challenge you to take the first step. I challenge you to look at yourself.Billy Graham / quote ↗
20c. 1968 ADToday we see social evil, terrorism, and gross immorality throughout the world. Someone has said, “A wrong deed is right if the majority of people declare it not to be wrong.”By this principle we can see our standards shiftingfrom year to year according to the popular vote!This new permissiveness is condoned by intelligent men and women,many of whom are found in the churches.Billy Graham / quote ↗
21c. 1968 ADTears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.Billy Graham / quote ↗
22c. 1968 ADOur ministries are strengthened, sometimes more than we realize, by our devotional life.Billy Graham / quote ↗
23c. 1968 ADWe must learn to let the Word of God feed us and strengthen us in our faith in God its author, Christ its message, and the Holy Spirit its teacher.Billy Graham / quote ↗
24c. 1968 ADAre your beliefs anchored in a faith that can withstand emotionalism, the drug culture, social and peer pressure, and material temptations? The world is seething with demonic energy. Only supreme inner strength can resist its ceaseless hassling.Billy Graham / quote ↗
