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
My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Life on Earth is temporary, and true belonging is in the afterlife.
Billy Grahamβs quote emphasizes the transient nature of human life, suggesting that Earth is not our final destination but merely a journey before reaching a divine home in Heaven. This perspective encourages one to focus on spiritual values and prepare for a life beyond the physical world.
Themes
HeavenLifeJourneySpiritualityTransience
In practice
Example use cases
In a eulogy reflecting on someone's life as a journey to eternal peace.
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
This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back.
John SteinbeckRead
Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?
William ShakespeareRead
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Winston ChurchillRead
The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language, but because its language grants and guarantees many good things, and good things that compete with each other and can never all be realized, altogether, all at once.
David SouterRead
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.
Emmeline PankhurstRead
Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.
Samuel BeckettRead