deepbrew

This story about Billy Graham did good things for me.  I’m posting a few excerpts that really resonated w/ me.  Yeah, I know, it’s a lazy way to post, but I liked the article.

“His mind is on the heavenly more than the temporal, on the central promises of Christianity more than on the passing political parade.”

“As he has grown older, Graham has come to an appreciation of complexity and a gentleness of spirit that sets him apart from many other high-profile figures in America’s popular religious milieu—including, judging from their public remarks, his own son Franklin Graham, and men such as Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.”

“For Graham, politics is a secondary to the Gospel, which transcends party lines and, for believers, transcends earthly reality itself.”

And this strikes me as much as any of it,

“If he had his life to live over again, Graham says he would spend more time immersed in Scripture and theology. He never went to seminary, and his lack of a graduate education is something that still gives him a twinge. “The greatest regret that I have is that I didn’t study more and read more,”"