Ruth Graham
Ruth Graham
Ruth Bell Graham, wife of the famous evangelist Billy Graham, was born in Qingjiang, Jiangsu, China as Ruth McCue Bell, the second of five children. Her parents, Dr. L. Nelson Bell and Virginia McCue Bell, were medical missionaries at the Presbyterian Hospital 300 milesnorth of Shanghai. At the age of 13 she was enrolled in high school in Pyongyang, Korea, where she studied for three years. Ruth completed her high school education at Montreat, North Carolina, while her parents were...
ProfessionFamily Member
Date of Birth10 June 1920
bible christian children
If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake.
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If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they've got--and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage.
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If I marry: He must be so tall that when he is on his knees, as one has said he reaches all the way to heaven. His shoulders must be broad enough to bear the burden of a family. His lips must be strong enough to smile, firm enough to say no, and tender enough to kiss. Love must be so deep that it takes its stand in Christ and so wide that it takes the whole lost world in. He must be active enough to save souls. He must be big enough to be gentle and great enough to be thoughtful. His arms must be strong enough to carry a little child.
aware
should be aware of how much everything has increased.
city cost determined effective program several
The city has participated in the program for several years and has determined that it is a cost effective way to advertise.
knowing waiting soul
Death - Death can be faced, dealt with, adjusted to, outlived. It's the not knowing that destroys interminably... This being suspended in suspense; waiting - weightless, How does one face the faceless, adjust to nothing? Waiting implies something to wait for. Is there? There is One. One who knows... I rest my soul on that.
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It takes more faith to be an atheist than to believe in God.
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God does not punish us for our sins but by them.
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Love without clinging, cry if you must, but privately cry, the heart will adjust.
grief love-is grieving
Take all away. I am content to know Such love is mine-for life is all too brief To grieve for pleasures bringing only grief; Give me but You; it is enough just so.
years found needed
Down through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed
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Worship and worry cannot live in the same heart: they are mutually exclusive.
cities cost natural
The city is not changing anything, ... increases in the cost of natural gas will be passed through to the customer.
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Pity the married couple who expect too much from one another.