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1 " Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have a job leading worship. "
― Billy Graham , Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well
2 " End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw. "
3 " Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children. "
4 " Golden years' must have been coined by the young. It is doubtful that anyone over seventy would have described this phase of life with such a symbolic word. "
5 " I often wonder if God, in His sovereignty, allows the eyesight of the aged to cast a dim view of the here and now so that we may focus our spiritual eyes on the ever after. "
6 " I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing. "
7 " Whoever first said it was right: old age is not for sissies. "
8 " That was then---This is Now "
9 " Then I thought about my boyhood dreams. Instead of bat in hand at home plate, I had what I now know is a much greater privilege: to stand behind a pulpit, with Bible in hand, immersed in the power of the Holy Spirit. "
10 " Pero incluso si la Biblia no nos dice todo lo que queremos saber en cuanto al cielo, nos dice todo lo que necesitamos saber. Y todo, sin excepción, lo que nos dice en cuanto al cielo debe hacernos querer ir allá. (Por otro lado, todo, sin excepción, lo que la Biblia nos dice en cuanto al infierno debe hacernos querer no ir allá). "