Nearing Home Quotes

“End of Construction. Thank you 'for your patience. " Inscription on Ruth Bell Graham's grave -- inspired hy a road sign she saw.”
― Billy Graham, Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

“Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children.”
― Billy Graham, Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

“Worship leader George Beverly Shea kidded Billy Graham that the latter would be unemployed in Heaven -- while Shea would still have a job leading worship.”
― Billy Graham, Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

“Golden years' must have been coined by the young. It is doubtful that anyone over seventy would have described this phase of life with such a symbolic word.”
― Billy Graham, Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

“I often wonder if God, in His sovereignty, allows the eyesight of the aged to cast a dim view of the here and now so that we may focus our spiritual eyes on the ever after.”
― Billy Graham, Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

“‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing.”
― Billy Graham, Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

“Whoever first said it was right: old age is not for sissies.”
― Billy Graham, Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

“Work is not something we do just to put food on the table; it is one of the major ways God has given us to bring glory to Him.”
― Billy Graham, Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

“To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose . . . a time to gain, and a time to lose” (Ecclesiastes 3:1, 6 NKJV). In times of loss there are lessons to be gained. Let’s not miss the purposes of God even in times of sorrow and disappointment, for He is always with us on our journey.”
― Billy Graham, Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

“That was then---This is Now”
― Billy Graham, Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

“Old age didn’t take them by surprise; they knew that if God gave them a long life”
― Billy Graham, Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

“growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life, the”
― Billy Graham, Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

“For anyone experiencing aches and pains, think of Louis and others like him who endured unbearable suffering in their service to our country. Think of the apostles and other early Christians who were burned at stakes or beheaded because of their allegiance to Jesus Christ. As they did, find a way to use your uncomfortable situation to point others to Him. Then remember the Lord Jesus who came and took upon Himself our guilt and shame to free us from the captivity of sin. What a privilege we have to remind one another that we are blessed in so many ways and that we have the Lord Jesus to comfort us in whatever circumstances we must endure. Some of us may be bedridden or confined to a wheelchair, but we still have important work to do.”
― Billy Graham, Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

“Old age didn’t take them by surprise; they knew that if God gave them a long life, then He still would be with them, and He would have a reason for keeping them here. For them, growing older was not something to be denied or dreaded; it was to be embraced as part of God’s plan for their lives. They were ordinary individuals—but men and women of extraordinary faith.”
― Billy Graham, Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well

“Pero incluso si la Biblia no nos dice todo lo que queremos saber en cuanto al cielo, nos dice todo lo que necesitamos saber. Y todo, sin excepción, lo que nos dice en cuanto al cielo debe hacernos querer ir allá. (Por otro lado, todo, sin excepción, lo que la Biblia nos dice en cuanto al infierno debe hacernos querer no ir allá).”
― Billy Graham, Casi en casa: Reflexiones sobre la vida, la fe y el fin de la carrera

“Then I thought about my boyhood dreams. Instead of bat in hand at home plate, I had what I now know is a much greater privilege: to stand behind a pulpit, with Bible in hand, immersed in the power of the Holy Spirit.”
― Billy Graham, Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well