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 Daysβan 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.
Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.
Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.
It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government
If everybody likes you, you're pretty dull.
No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
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