It is important to realize that a person with the gift of discernment can often tell the difference between what is of God and what is not. Such a person can often point out false teachings or false teachers—he has an almost uncanny ability to perceivehypocrisy, shallowness, deceit, or phoniness.
Weitere Zitate von Billy Graham
Zum Autor"[Christ’s] goodness is still a rebuke to our badness; His purity still shows up our impurities; His sinlessness still reveals our sinfulness; and unless we allow [Jesus] to destroy the evil within us, the evil within us still wants to destroy Him. This is the conflict of the ages."
"It is the absence of the knowledge of God and man’s refusal to obey Him that lie at the root of every problem which besets us."
"The motive of grace is the infinite, compassionate love of a merciful God, but the work of grace was the death of Christ on the cross."
"Don’t let the acids of bitterness eat away inside. Learn the secret of trusting Christ in every circumstance."
"The greatest testimony to this dark world today would be a band of crucified and risen men and women, dead to sin and alive unto God, bearing in their bodies “the marks of the Lord Jesus” [Galatians 6:17 NKJV]."
"A born-again Christian should no more think of going back to the old life than an adult to his childhood."