“The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'”
"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 Graham
Love
"The cross shows the seriousness of our sin—but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God."
- Billy Graham
Love
"When asked his secret of love, being married fifty-four years to the same person, he said, ‘Ruth and I are happily incompatible.’"
- Billy Graham
Love
"Without Ruth’s partnership and encouragement over the years, my own work would have been impossible. We were called by God as a team."
- Billy Graham
Love
"True love is an act of the will – a conscious decision to do what is best for the other person instead of ourselves."
- Billy Graham
Love
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity