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title: "62 Billy Graham Quotes by 50 authors"
description: "Browse 62 Billy Graham quotes by 50 authors. Discover the best Billy Graham sayings and thoughts."
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> [Just being the son of Billy Graham won't get me into heaven.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franklin-graham/just-being-the-son-of-billy-graham-won-t-get-me-into-heaven/)

[Franklin Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franklin-graham/)

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> [Billy Graham is the chief servant of Satan in America.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-falwell/billy-graham-is-the-chief-servant-of-satan-in-america/)

[Jerry Falwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-falwell/)

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> [I want to be maybe the modern-day Billy Graham.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-lindell/i-want-to-be-maybe-the-modern-day-billy-graham/)

[Mike Lindell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-lindell/)

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> [Billy Graham is a boring, racist charlatan.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/billy-graham-is-a-boring-racist-charlatan/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [Billy Graham isn't about politics - Billy Graham is about God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darius-rucker/billy-graham-isn-t-about-politics-billy-graham-is-about-god/)

[Darius Rucker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darius-rucker/)

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> [Billy Graham is for the hereafter, I'm for the here and now!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-lalanne/billy-graham-is-for-the-hereafter-i-m-for-the-here-and-now/)

[Jack LaLanne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-lalanne/)

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> [I honor Billy Graham. He is a category by himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/reinhard-bonnke/i-honor-billy-graham-he-is-a-category-by-himself/)

[Reinhard Bonnke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/reinhard-bonnke/)

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> [“Billy Graham’s crusades likely marked the peak of mass evangelism.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-s-dickerson/billy-graham-s-crusades-likely-marked-the-peak-of-mass-evangelism/)

[John S. Dickerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-s-dickerson/)

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> [Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/billy-graham/worship-leader-george-beverly-shea-kidded-billy-graham-that-the/)

[Billy Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/billy-graham/)

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> [Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/had-it-not-been-for-the-ministry-of-my-good-friend-dr-billy-graham-my/)

[Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/)

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> [To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/larry-wall/to-ordinary-folks-conversion-is-not-always-automatic-it-s-something/)

[Larry Wall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/larry-wall/)

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> [“The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not, ‘What a lovely sermon!’ but ‘I will do something.’”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-hensley/the-test-of-a-preacher-is-that-his-congregation-goes-away-saying-not-2/)

[Ken Hensley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-hensley/)

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> [During my teens and early 20s, I proved to be anything but what most people expected Billy Graham's son to be. I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franklin-graham/during-my-teens-and-early-20s-i-proved-to-be-anything-but-what-most/)

[Franklin Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franklin-graham/)

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> [Billy Graham talks about how he doesn't judge people. I don't either. Some people I am just pissed at.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jessica-hahn/billy-graham-talks-about-how-he-doesn-t-judge-people-i-don-t-either/)

[Jessica Hahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jessica-hahn/)

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> [“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened. Billy Graham”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/billy-graham/courage-is-contagious-when-a-brave-man-takes-a-stand-the-spines-of-3/)

[Billy Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/billy-graham/)

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> [One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shirley-ann-grau/one-of-my-current-pet-theories-is-that-the-winter-is-a-kind-of/)

[Shirley Ann Grau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shirley-ann-grau/)

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> [I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimmy-carter/i-believed-what-my-father-taught-me-about-the-separation-of-church/)

[Jimmy Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimmy-carter/)

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> [Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitt-romney/christianity-is-not-the-faith-of-the-complacent-the-comfortable-or-of-2/)

[Mitt Romney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitt-romney/)

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> [I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pat-summerall/i-ve-done-a-lot-of-super-bowls-and-appeared-in-a-lot-of-big-big/)

[Pat Summerall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pat-summerall/)

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> [OUR INSPIRATION: Billy Graham, July 2, 1962 “World events are moving very rapidly now. I pick up the Bible in one hand,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/billy-graham/our-inspiration-billy-graham-july-2-1962-world-events-are-moving-very/)

[Billy Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/billy-graham/)

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> [I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-b-jenkins/i-put-off-writing-the-first-left-behind-book-for-a-year-because-i-got/)

[Jerry B. Jenkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-b-jenkins/)

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> [The things that Billy Graham says, I really have no idea why he says them. He talks about things without really knowing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruno-sammartino/the-things-that-billy-graham-says-i-really-have-no-idea-why-he-says/)

[Bruno Sammartino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruno-sammartino/)

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> [Years ago I was on television having a discussion with Billy Graham about atheism. He was saying, even if you're right and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/woody-allen/years-ago-i-was-on-television-having-a-discussion-with-billy-graham/)

[Woody Allen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/woody-allen/)

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> [The man the world knew as Billy Graham was always 'Daddy' to me. I was well into my teens before I fully…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franklin-graham/the-man-the-world-knew-as-billy-graham-was-always-daddy-to-me-i-was/)

[Franklin Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franklin-graham/)

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> [“The public image of the leaders of the religious right I met with so many times also contrasted with who they really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-schaeffer/the-public-image-of-the-leaders-of-the-religious-right-i-met-with-so/)

[Frank Schaeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-schaeffer/)

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> [“It would be a serious mistake to think of Billy Graham or any other television revivalist as a latter-day Jonathan Edwards or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-postman/it-would-be-a-serious-mistake-to-think-of-billy-graham-or-any-other/)

[Neil Postman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-postman/)

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> [“A little known preacher named Mordecai Ham led to Christ a young boy whose name was Billy Graham. Billy Graham brought thousands…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-wurmbrand/a-little-known-preacher-named-mordecai-ham-led-to-christ-a-young-boy/)

[Richard Wurmbrand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-wurmbrand/)

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> [It's clearly the case that there's not some moment in American history when every evangelical is holding hands with every Catholic who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ross-douthat/it-s-clearly-the-case-that-there-s-not-some-moment-in-american/)

[Ross Douthat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ross-douthat/)

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> [I am constantly concerned about being quoted in the press and perhaps saying the wrong thing or having what I say misinterpreted…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/billy-graham/i-am-constantly-concerned-about-being-quoted-in-the-press-and-perhaps/)

[Billy Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/billy-graham/)

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> [“Jesus certainly was not a “Bible believer,” as we use that term in the post Billy Graham era of American fundamentalist religiosity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-schaeffer/jesus-certainly-was-not-a-bible-believer-as-we-use-that-term-in-the/)

[Frank Schaeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-schaeffer/)

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> [“What has God given you? Moses had a stick, David had a slingshot, and Paul had a pen. Mother Teresa possessed a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-stearns/what-has-god-given-you-moses-had-a-stick-david-had-a-slingshot-and/)

[Richard Stearns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-stearns/)

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> [“Why doesn't the pope convert to Calvinism? Why doesn't the Dalai Lama, convert to Christianity, why doesn't Billy Graham convert to Islam,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bangambiki-habyarimana/why-doesn-t-the-pope-convert-to-calvinism-why-doesn-t-the-dalai-lama/)

[Bangambiki Habyarimana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bangambiki-habyarimana/)

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> [“I happened to see Larry King interview Billy Graham shortly after the shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. I had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-miller/i-happened-to-see-larry-king-interview-billy-graham-shortly-after-the/)

[Donald Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-miller/)

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> [“Some time ago, the concept of the “carnal Christian” became popular among some evangelical groups. The basic idea was that someone could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-m-davis/some-time-ago-the-concept-of-the-carnal-christian-became-popular/)

[Andrew M. Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-m-davis/)

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> [“I have a complicated spiritual history. Here's the short version: I was born into a Mass-going Roman Catholic family, but my parents…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cathleen-falsani/i-have-a-complicated-spiritual-history-here-s-the-short-version-i-was/)

[Cathleen Falsani](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cathleen-falsani/)

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> [“Keeping a new church outwardly focused from the beginning is much easier than trying to refocus an inwardly concerned church. In order…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nelson-searcy/keeping-a-new-church-outwardly-focused-from-the-beginning-is-much/)

[Nelson Searcy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nelson-searcy/)

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> [“Hanging on to it a little, are you? … There’s a trick to letting it go, in case you’re interested… You can’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robyn-carr/hanging-on-to-it-a-little-are-you-there-s-a-trick-to-letting-it-go-in/)

[Robyn Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robyn-carr/)

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> [“But it’s no surprise that when someone truly awful dies, the cool break out in reverence. Which is what happened when Hugo…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-gutfeld/but-it-s-no-surprise-that-when-someone-truly-awful-dies-the-cool/)

[Greg Gutfeld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-gutfeld/)

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> [“Fred Rogers was not just a compassionate human being; he was a practicing Christian who firmly believed that human compassion has its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-g-long/fred-rogers-was-not-just-a-compassionate-human-being-he-was-a/)

[Michael G. Long](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-g-long/)

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> [“Containing Communism was a priority, but the United States government had its own plans. Since 1951 or 1952, the idea had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alex-von-tunzelmann/containing-communism-was-a-priority-but-the-united-states-government/)

[Alex von Tunzelmann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alex-von-tunzelmann/)

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## Top authors on Billy Graham

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-franklin-graham-35918.jpg) Franklin Graham 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/billy-graham/franklin-graham/)

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                        "text": "It's clearly the case that there's not some moment in American history when every evangelical is holding hands with every Catholic who is holding hands with every mainline Methodist, or what have you. Obviously, American Christianity was deeply divided in all kinds of ways at mid-century too. But there was a kind of convergence going on. Even though Reinhold Niebuhr, the great mainline Protestant theologian, didn't think highly of Billy Graham, he and Graham still, clearly, had more in common, both theologically and in their attitudes toward religion in public life.",
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                        "text": "“Some time ago, the concept of the “carnal Christian” became popular among some evangelical groups. The basic idea was that someone could be saved, and yet living no differently than an unbeliever day after day. In their lives there would be no hunger and thirst for righteousness, no patterns of obedience, little or no prayer or Bible reading, spotty church attendance, coupled with a love for the world, and a worldly mindset hostile to the Christian faith. Yet, because these people had “prayed the sinner’s prayer” or gone forward at a Billy Graham rally, or “asked Jesus into their hearts” at a youth camp, they were supposedly Christians. This shallow idea of conversion was coupled with the biblical concept of “once saved, always saved,” and a poisonous concoction resulted. Once that concoction was downed, the person became seriously ill with spiritual self-deception. The end of that road is hell. If anything gives you complacent comfort in a sinful lifestyle, it is a devilish component of the problem.”",
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                        "text": "“I have a complicated spiritual history. Here's the short version: I was born into a Mass-going Roman Catholic family, but my parents left the church when I was in the fifth grade and joined a Southern Baptist church—yes, in Connecticut. I am an alumnus of Wheaton College—Billy Graham's alma mater in Illinois, not the Seven Sisters school in Massachusetts—and the summer between my junior and senior year of (Christian) high school, I spent a couple of months on a missions trip performing in whiteface as a mime-for-the-Lord on the streets of London's West End. Once I left home for Wheaton, I ended up worshiping variously (and when I could haul my lazy tuckus out of bed) at the nondenominational Bible church next to the college, a Christian hippie commune in inner-city Chicago left over from the Jesus Freak movement of the 1960s, and an artsy-fartsy suburban Episcopal parish that ended up splitting over same-sex issues. My husband of more than a decade likes to describe himself as a “collapsed Catholic,” and for more than twenty-five years, I have been a born-again Christian. Groan, I know. But there's really no better term in the current popular lexicon to describe my seminal spiritual experience. It happened in the summer of 1980 when I was about to turn ten years old. My parents had both had born-again experiences themselves about six months earlier, shortly before our family left the Catholic church—much to the shock and dismay of the rest of our extended Irish and/or Italian Catholic family—and started worshiping in a rented public grade school gymnasium with the Southern Baptists. My mother had told me all about what she'd experienced with God and how I needed to give my heart to Jesus so I could spend eternity with him in heaven and not frying in hell. I was an intellectually stubborn and precocious child, so I didn't just kneel down with her and pray the first time she told me about what was going on with her and Daddy and Jesus. If something similar was going to happen to me, it was going to happen in my own sweet time. A few months into our family's new spiritual adventure, after hearing many lectures from Mom and sitting through any number of sermons at the Baptist church—each ending with an altar call and an invitation to make Jesus the Lord of my life—I got up from bed late one Sunday night and went downstairs to the den where my mother was watching television. I couldn't sleep, which was unusual for me as a child. I was a champion snoozer. In hindsight I realize something must have been troubling my spirit. Mom went into the kitchen for a cup of tea and left me alone with the television, which she had tuned to a church service. I don't remember exactly what the preacher said in his impassioned, sweaty sermon, but I do recall three things crystal clearly: The preacher was Jimmy Swaggart; he gave an altar call, inviting the folks in the congregation in front of him and at home in TV land to pray a simple prayer asking Jesus to come into their hearts; and that I prayed that prayer then and there, alone in the den in front of the idiot box. Seriously. That is precisely how I got “saved.” Alone. Watching Jimmy Swaggart on late-night TV. I also spent a painful vacation with my family one summer at Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Heritage USA Christian theme park in South Carolina. But that's a whole other book…”",
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                        "text": "“Keeping a new church outwardly focused from the beginning is much easier than trying to refocus an inwardly concerned church. In order to plant a successful church, you have to know that you know that you are undeniably called by God. The call to start a new church plant is not the same as the call to serve in an existing church or work in a ministry-related organization. You may be the greatest preacher this side of Billy Graham but still not be called to start a church. If you think you may have allowed an improper reason, voice or emotion to lead you to the idea of starting a new church, back away now. Spend some more time with God. You don’t want to move forward on a hunch or because you feel “pretty sure” that you should be planting a church. You have to be completely certain. “You’re afraid? So what. Everybody’s afraid. Fear is the common ground of humanity. The question you must wrestle to the ground is, ‘Will I allow my fear to bind me to mediocrity?’” When you think of a people group that you might be called to reach, does your heart break for them? If so, you may want to consider whether God is specifically calling you to reach that group for His kingdom. Is your calling clear? Has your calling been confirmed by others? Are you humbled by the call? Have you acted on your call? Do you know for certain that God has called you to start a new church? Nail it down. When exactly were you called? What were the circumstances surrounding your call? How did it match up with the sources of proper calling? Do you recognize the four specific calls in your calling? How? How does your call measure up to biblical characteristics? What is the emerging vision that God is giving you with this call? As your dependence on God grows, so will your church. One of the most common mistakes that enthusiastic and well-meaning church starters make is to move to a new location and start trying to reach people without thinking through even a short-term strategy. Don’t begin until you count the cost. why would you even consider starting a church (the only institution Jesus left behind and the only one that will last forever) without first developing a God-infused, specific, winning strategy? There are two types of pain: the pain of front-end discipline and the pain of back-end regret. With the question of strategy development, you get to choose which pain you’d rather live with. Basically, a purpose, mission and vision statement provides guiding principles that describe what God has called you to do (mission), how you will do it (purpose) and what it will look like when you get it done (vision). Keep your statement simple. Be as precise as possible. Core values are the filter through which you fulfill your strategy. These are important, because your entire strategy will be created and implemented in such a way as to bring your core values to life. Your strategic aim will serve as the beacon that guides the rest of your strategy. It is the initial purpose for which you are writing your strategy. He will not send more people to you than you are ready to receive. So what can you do? The same thing Dr. Graham does. Prepare in a way that enables God to open the floodgates into your church. If you are truly ready, He will send people your way. If you do the work we’ve described in this chapter, you’ll be able to build your new church on a strong base of God-breathed preparation. You’ll know where you are, where you’re going and how you are going to get there. You’ll be standing in the rain with a huge bucket, ready to take in the deluge. However, if you don’t think through your strategy, write it down and then implement it, you’ll be like the man who stands in the rainstorm with a Dixie cup. You’ll be completely unprepared to capture what God is pouring out. The choice is yours!”",
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                        "text": "“Hanging on to it a little, are you? … There’s a trick to letting it go, in case you’re interested… You can’t try. Trying is a struggle and doing is an act. You can’t witness the act of trying, but you can see the results of doing. Trying brings on stress because not only do you have the problem, but now you have all this frustration with it not going away just because you want it to. It’s kind of like being told not to think of pink elephants- impossible. What you have to do is stop. You say to yourself, this is over for now. I’m done for now. Take your mind to another place and concentrate on that peaceful place. Deep breaths. Go limp. Put your mind in another state. It takes practice, but it gets easier, over time… My gramma used to say, you can only feel one feeling at a time. For example, you can’t feel trust and fear together. If you want to trust but you’re afraid, fear is still in charge. If you trusted, there wouldn’t be fear. She also used to say you have to listen to what you feel- feeling fear could be warning, right? ... Don’t make love to your problems- they’ll never give you back the satisfaction you give them. And, your troubles aren’t worth the paper they’re written on, but that doesn’t mean writing them down won’t help you get a fix on ‘em. And, God respects you when you work, but he loves you when you dance… she also used to say, ‘if Jesus walked the earth today, he wouldn’t be hanging out with Billy Graham. He’d be found with the drug addicts and prostitutes and the like.”",
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                        "text": "“But it’s no surprise that when someone truly awful dies, the cool break out in reverence. Which is what happened when Hugo Chávez croaked. On that day in March 2013, we saw a parade of misty-eyed celebrities and solemn left-wing hacks paying tribute to a dead guy. Out of the woodwork came a parade of Hugoslavians, tyrant-lovers who could overlook the heathen’s badness for the sake of coolness. See, someone can be truly evil. But if that person runs a country and you know that person well, it makes you kinda cool. It’s better to know Darth Vader than Doris Day. It’s pretty cool to brag that you just shared a burrito with a murderous despot, as opposed to a biscuit with Billy Graham. And so when Chávez bit the dust, who did we see? Sean Penn. Oliver Stone. Jimmy Carter. Joe Kennedy. All decorating the corpse with wreaths of blithering blather. And no one blathers blitheringly like that quartet. That’s the worst set of four since the last Who reunion.”",
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