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
Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of repentance and forgiveness as part of spiritual reflection.
Billy Graham highlights a key aspect of the Jewish High Holy Days—an annual period of introspection and atonement. This time serves as a universal reminder for all to recognize their own shortcomings, seek forgiveness, and strive for personal growth, encouraging a collective embrace of humility and reconciliation.
In practice
In a sermon about humility and growth, one might quote this to highlight the importance of self-reflection.
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.
The unyielding army will not win.
Spaces devoted to Hannibal Lecter’s earliest years differ from the other archives in being incomplete. Some are static scenes, fragmentary, like painted attic shards held together by blank plaster. Other rooms hold sound and motion, great snakes wrestling and heaving in the dark and lit in flashes. Pleas and screaming fill some places on the grounds where Hannibal himself cannot go. But the corridors do not echo screaming, and there is music if you like.
Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.
Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.
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