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Billy Graham was once asked,

"If you had to live your life over again, what would you do differently?"

He answered:

“One of my great regrets is that I have not studied enough, I wish I had studied more and preached less. People have pressured me into speaking to groups when I should have been studying and preparing."

Donald Grey Barnhouse said that if he knew the Lord was coming in three years, he would spend two of them studying and one preaching.”

The church needs more men like John Wesley, the powerful eighteenth-century preacher who cried out,

"O give me that Book! At any price, give me the book of God!"

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