“No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.”
"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