Billy Graham on evil
Billy Graham114 quotes“Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.”
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Billy GrahamBilly Graham We have perfected our weapons but failed to perfect the men who use them.
Billy GrahamBilly Graham Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence.
Billy GrahamBilly Graham Don’t let failure or disappointment cut you off from God or make you think that the future is hopeless. When God closes one door, He often opens another door – if we seek it.
Billy GrahamBilly Graham Don’t ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn’t want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.
Billy GrahamBilly Graham Most of us know about God, but that is quite different from knowing God.
Billy GrahamBilly Graham Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will.
Billy GrahamBilly Graham I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God’s Word.
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He [God] watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me, and consoled me as a father would his son.
Saint PatrickSaint Patrick And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.
Hermann HesseHermann Hesse Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else.
MenciusMencius Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.
Al-GhazaliAl-Ghazali We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.
Indira GandhiIndira Gandhi Evil events from evil causes spring.
AristophanesAristophanes Each one of us has both; good and evil virtues. Those who decide to focus on the good ones succeed in life.
Narendra ModiNarendra Modi Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
HerodotusHerodotus
