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Ruth Graham Biography

Ruth Bell Graham (June 10, 1920 – June 14, 2007) was an American Christian author, most well known as the wife of evangelist Billy Graham. Born in Qingjiang, Jiangsu, Republic of China, the second of five children, her parents, L. Nelson Bell and Virginia Leftwich Bell, were medical missionaries at the Presbyterian Hospital 300 miles (480 km) north of Shanghai. At the age of 13 she was enrolled in high school in Pyongyang, Korea, where she studied for three years. She completed her high school education at Montreat, North Carolina, while her parents were there on furlough. She graduated from Wheaton College (Illinois) in Wheaton, Illinois.

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Down through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed

Years, Found, Through The Years, Turned

God does not punish us for our sins but by them.

Doe, Sin, Punish, Sins, God

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

Inspirational, Prayer, Heart, Tough, Tender

Temptation and testing (or a trial) are two sides of the same coin. Satan uses an occasion or a person to tempt us to fall; God uses the same to try us and make us stronger.

Fall, Two Sides, Temptation, Trial, Occasion, Stronger

A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers.

Good, Made, Marriage, Successful, Two

Love without clinging, cry if you must, but privately cry, the heart will adjust.

Heart, Cry, Clinging, Adjust, Privately

End of Construction - Thank you for your patience.

Christian, Christian Inspirational, Construction, Patience, Thank

It takes more faith to be an atheist than to believe in God.

Atheist, Believe, Believe In God, Faith, God

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.

Knowing, Waiting, Soul, Rest, Outlived, Faced

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.

Away, Grief, Grieving, Know, Life, Love Is

We cannot pray and remain the same.

Pray, Prayer, Praying, Remain, Same

Worship and worry cannot live in the same heart: they are mutually exclusive.

Exclusive, Heart, Live, Same, Worry, Worship

The city is not changing anything,. . . increases in the cost of natural gas will be passed through to the customer.

Cities, City, Cost, Increases, Natural

Dear God, I prayed, all unafraid (as we're inclined to do), I do not need a handsome man but let him be like You; I do not need one big and strong nor yet so very tall, nor need he be some genius, or wealthy, Lord, at all; but let his head be high, dear God, and let his eye be clear, his shoulders straight, whate'er his state, whate'er his earthly sphere; and let his face have character, a ruggedness if soul, and let his whole life show, dear God, a singleness of goal; then when he comes (as he will come) with quiet eyes aglow, I'll understand that he's the man I prayed for long ago.

Character, Come, Eye, Let, Ruggedness, Strong

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.

Children, Heaven, Kissing, Stand, Strong, Wide

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.

Arrive, Children, Give, Home, Loving, Mother