When Ruth Bell Graham “retorted” to Billy Graham “without missing a beat”

Here’s the same story reported in different places.

First in The Los Angeles Times by Jocelyn Y. Stewart.

Raised as a Presbyterian, Graham had no experience in submitting to a husband’s authority the way the evangelist, who was reared in a Southern Baptist family, expected.

Ruth Graham once was driving and hit the accelerator instead of the brake, sending her car crashing through a fence. Nobody was hurt, but in a phone call from California, Billy Graham demanded that she surrender her driver’s license. Ruth argued with him, standing her ground, according to an account in the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen-Times.

After a long moment of silence, Billy Graham said, “I don’t recall reading in Scripture that Sarah ever talked to Abraham like this.”

Ruth Graham retorted: “Well, I don’t recall reading in Scripture that Abraham ever tried to take Sarah’s camel away from her.”

Second in one of Ruth Bell Graham’s books by one of her daughters.