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In a 1997 commencement address to a small college in Florida, the nearly octogenarian Graham had sage and gentle words for the young people just starting their careers: “I urge of you to invest your lives, not just spend them. Each of us is given the exact same amount of seconds, minutes, and hours per day as anyone else. The difference is how we redeem our allotted time…. You cannot count your days, but you can make your days count.”

Perhaps the real truth is that he remained "loyal to traditional formulations," as William Martin put it, but he also possessed the heart of a pastor. His...training told him one thing but his encounters with real problems of real people...pulled him in another.... We might call it "emotional intelligence": the posture of a man who had talked to too many people of different life experiences to be willing to to judge them. Only God could to that.