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
God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with. We are cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing. If we fail to fulfill this divine duty and privilege we have missed the meaning of Christianity.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes the importance of generosity and the purpose of helping others in life.
Billy Graham's quote highlights the dual purpose of human existence, where one hand symbolizes the act of receiving and the other the act of giving. It underscores the idea that we are not meant to hoard resources or blessings for ourselves but instead serve as conduits for sharing and helping others, reflecting the core values of Christianity and community service.
Themes
GenerositySharingChristianityServiceHelping Others
In practice
Example use cases
This quote could be used in a sermon to encourage the congregation to engage in charitable acts.
More from Billy Graham
All quotes βThe wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.
Billy GrahamRead
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 GrahamRead
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.
Billy GrahamRead
Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.
Billy GrahamRead
Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.
Billy GrahamRead
Similar quotes
The church must share in the secular problems of ordinary human life, not dominating, but helping and serving.
Dietrich BonhoefferRead
It isn't those who are taken by force, put in chains, and sold as slaves who are the real slaves; it is those who will accept it, morally and physically.
Ousmane SembeneRead
Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.
Sun TzuRead
To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare oneβs self to die.
Marcus Tullius CiceroRead
While the Nation has forbidden monopoly by one set of laws it has been creating them by another. Patent laws, valuable as they may be in some respects, often father monopoly.
Robert H. JacksonRead
Imagination is a tree. It has the integrative virtues of a tree. It is root and boughs. It lives between earth and sky. It lives in the earth and the wind. The imagined tree imperceptibly becomes a cosmological tree, the tree which epitomises a universe, which makes a universe.
Gaston BachelardRead