God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'
Billy GrahamRead
Christ not only died for all: He died for each.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the personal nature of Christ's sacrifice, highlighting that it was made for each individual.
Billy Graham's quote reflects the profound and intimate nature of Christ's sacrifice, suggesting that it extends beyond a collective act to a deeply personal one for every individual. This means that each person is valued and loved uniquely, emphasizing the importance of personal relationships and feelings within the broader context of faith and spirituality.
In practice
In a sermon about the importance of personal faith, this quote can be used to illustrate Christ's love for each person.
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'
The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.
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.
God will not force himself upon us against our will. If we want his love, we need to believe in him. We need to make a definite, positive act of commitment and surrender to the love of God. No one can do it for us.
Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.
Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.
All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him.
An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.
And he absolutely had to find her at once to tell her that he adored her, but the large audience before him separated him from the door, and the notes reaching him through a succession of hands said that she was not available; that she was inaugurating a fire; that she had married an american businessman; that she had become a character in a novel; that she was dead.
When you are in touch with that dimension within yourself-and being in touch with it is your natural state, all your actions and relationships will reflect the oneness with all life that you sense deep within. This is love. Laws, commandments, rules and regulations are necessary for those who are cut off from who they are, the Truth within.
He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.
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