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What
do people say about Ruth and Billy Graham?
About Ruth:
"If
she's talking to you, she's talking to you, she's not looking
past you. You may only have her for a few seconds, but you've
got her attention and she's listening to what you're saying."
Dan Rather
"Billy's
told me over and over again that Ruth is the real Christian in
the family."
Barbara Bush
"
There's an embrace. A few murmured words. And a smile from
the woman who is the emotional rock of the world's most famous
evangelist."
John Reinan, Charlotte Observer
"They
asked her did she ever think about divorce and she said, 'No,
I've never thought of divorce in all these 35 years of marriage,
but,' she said, 'I did think of murder a few times.'"
Billy Graham, on Phil Donahue
"She
would quote the old mountain man who said make the least of all
that goes and the most of all that comes."
Gigi Graham Tchividjian
"Obviously
her work shows so much of the beauty that comes out of pain and
loneliness and time just alone."
Richard Watson
"I
find a lot of peace and wisdom in what she has to say."
Andie McDowell
"Mom
has been a painter and poet, an incredible woman and a wonderful
wife to set him free to do what he was called to do. I never had
heard my mother complain or lose her temper, although she was
as called to evangelism as Daddy."
Anne
Graham Lotz
"She
likes to help someone that's in trouble. You know she couldn't
go to Tibet, so she endeavored to help people by her written word,
and by love in action behind the scenes."
Karlene Shea
"I
think it's that she does in her poems talk about real life things
that we can all go through. And I think that is a wonderful way
to be able to touch people's hearts."
Linda Johnson Robb
About
Billy:
"I
remember getting postcards from wherever he was, a note written
on a plane. They wouldn't be long letters but there would be notes,
just letting me know he loved me."
Gigi Graham Tchividjian
"I
guess only Billy Graham and the President of the United States
can walk into a federal prison any time they want to, to see somebody.
And I walked in, and there was Dr. Billy Graham, standing bigger
than life, with his arms outstretched and I walked into his arms,
and he hugged me, and he said, 'Jim, I love you.'"
Jim Bakker
"Daddy
says all his life he's known how to die but no one ever taught
him how to grow old. I can see their patience. I don't see bitterness,
anger or complaining, just gentleness, sweetness and peace."
Anne
Graham Lotz
"I
thought church was a waste of time. But when the crusade came,
I knew I had to hear Billy Graham."
Jim Graham, participant
in one of Billy Graham's crusades
"I
thought everybody's father was gone…"
Gigi Graham Tchividjian
"When
you're in the business Lyndon was in, you think you need all the
help you can get. All the strength, all the guidance, and we just
thought he's a good rock to lean on, he's a good human being to
help us find the right path."
Lady Bird Johnson
"I
think for someone to come from a dairy farm in North Carolina
and from a fairly restrictive background, in that way, a wonderful,
rich background, but then to be able to adapt to people and cultures
in all parts of the world is a very remarkable thing."
Leighton Ford
"His
sincerity, transparent and convincing, cannot be denied. He is
an icon essential to a country in which, for two centuries now,
religion has been not the opiate but the poetry of the people."
Harold Bloom, Time Magazine
"At
our concerts, yes, we hope that people are encouraged, spiritually
and emotionally. But a man gets up like Billy Graham, with this
long history, and I'm amazed when he preaches how simple and easy
it is to grasp."
Michael Tait, dc Talk
"I
didn't know when I married Bill all that lay ahead; I wouldn't
have had the nerve to marry him. No, I had no inclination of what
was going to happen in the future."
Ruth Bell Graham
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