Billy Graham’s Dating Rules

Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on March 17, 2009

“My parents never once told me to be in at a certain time when I went out on a Friday or Saturday night date. I knew that I had to be up by three in the morning and if I stayed out past midnight I would get only a couple hours of sleep.”
-Billy Graham
(Just As I Am)

There is Love After Death for Billy and Ruth Graham

Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on February 13, 2009

In 2007, Billy Graham’s wife of 63 years, Ruth Bell Graham, passed away at their home in Montreat, N.C.

“I am so grateful to the Lord that He gave me Ruth, and especially for these last few years we’ve had in the mountains together,” Billy Graham said in a statement released at her death. “We’ve rekindled the romance of our youth, and my love for her continued to grow deeper every day. I will miss her terribly, and look forward even more to the day I can join her in Heaven.”

As a continuing testament to their love, Ruth is never far from Billy’s mind.

An e-mail interview asked what life is like without Ruth, and Billy Graham responded: “Not a day, or even an hour, goes by that I don’t think about her and miss her. I rejoice that all the suffering she endured those last years is over, and that she’s safely in Heaven now with the Lord she loved and served almost her whole life. But I miss her very much, and I look forward to the time when we will be reunited.”

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Billy Graham Takes on Sex Researcher Alfred Kinsey

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Just in time for Valentine’s Day we have Billy Graham’s response to sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. In 1952 Kinsey released his Sexual Behavior in the Human Female report to overwhelming controversey.

Billy Graham weighed in with the booklet The Bible and Dr. Kinsey, opening with this quick and clear condemnation:

Nearly every magazine and newspaper has carried a review of Dr. Alfred Kinsey’s newest book. He has used over eight hundred pages to give the most intimate details of the private lives of 5,940 women. No details are spared. It is impossible to estimate the damage this book will do to the already deteriorating morals of America.

The moral laws governing marraige have been scorned and immorality advocated. Young people are encouraged to have pre-marital experiences.

Happily married husbands and wives are going to start suspecting each other when they read that one out of every four wives is unfaithful to her husband. Doctor Kinsey’s report shows itself to be completely lopsided and unscientific when it says that seven out of ten women who had pre-marital affairs had no regrets. He certainly could not have interviewed any of the millions of born-again Christian women in this country who put the highest price on virtue, decency and modesty.

(Booklet courtesy of Knightopia)

Billy Graham on Marriage

Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on February 11, 2009

“Ruth and I don’t have a perfect marriage, but we have a great one. In a perfect marriage, everything is always the finest and best imaginable; like a Greek statue, the proportions are exact and the finish is unblemished. Who knows any human beings like that? For a married couple to expect perfection in each other is unrealistic. We learned that even before we married.

“The unblemished ideal exists only in ‘happily ever after’ fairy tales. I think that there is some merit to a description I once read of a married couple as ‘happily incompatible.’ Ruth likes to say, ‘If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.’ The sooner we accept that as a fact of life, the better we will be able to adjust to each other and enjoy togetherness.”
-Billy Graham
(Ruth Bell Graham memorial site)

Making Out with Billy Graham

Posted by Kevin D. Hendricks on February 4, 2009

As a senior in high school Billy Graham found himself in a dark classroom with a female cast member during an evening rehearsal of a school play. The girl had a reputation for scoring with the boys and, as Graham recounts it, “Before I realized what was happening she was begging me to make love to her.”

But instead of rounding the bases, Graham made like Joseph and ran away.

“It never really seemed right to me to have sex with anybody but the woman I would marry,” he explained, though he also admitted, “My hormones were as active as any other healthy young male’s, and I had fantasized often enough about such a moment.”