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
I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a positive outlook toward death as a transition to meeting God.
Billy Graham's quote reflects a profound acceptance of mortality, seeing death as a hopeful passage rather than an end. It conveys the idea that the ultimate meeting with God is a moment of great anticipation, suggesting that faith and belief can transform one's perspective on death into an opportunity for a significant spiritual experience.
In practice
During a memorial service to celebrate a loved one's life.
God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, 'I love you.'
The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.
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.
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.
Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.
Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.
We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak.
What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.
Taste cannot be controlled by law.
Welcome, Anne. I thought you'd come today. You belong to the afternoon so it brought you. Things that belong together are sure to come together. What a lot of trouble that would save some people if they only knew it. But they don't...and so they waste beautiful energy moving heaven and earth to bring things together that don't belong.
All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun a long circle back toward their former coherence. Whether they can arrive before the natural world is damaged beyond repair and madness destroys humanity, we cannot tell.
Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.
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