Jo Graham Quotes

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word.

The sense of pride I take away from doing something I know will be inspire women to feel confident about their bodies.

The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself.

Salvation is free, but discipleship costs everything we have

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

Freedom to a dancer means discipline. That is what technique is for -- liberation.

The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin-but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.

High valuations entail high risks.

The distinction between investment and speculation in common stocks has always been a useful one and its disappearance is cause for concern.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

And whenever you encounter a problem, no matter how insurmountable it might seem, there is one simple response that should be ingrained in your behavior: Never give up.

Always remember that market quotations are there for convenience, either to be taken advantage of or to be ignored.

If ever there was a time this country needed the intervention of God, it is now.

Knowledge is only one ingredient on arriving at a stock's proper price. The other ingredient, fully as important as information, is sound judgment.

I can tell you that God is alive because I talked to him this morning.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.

Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and his will first in everything you do.

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.

Salvation is an act of God. It is initiated by God, wrought by God, and sustained by God.

With every door that closes a new one opens.

My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement.

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

Every day without exception - is a gift from God, entrusted to us to use for His glory.

Do not let anyone else run your business

Experience teaches that the time to buy stocks is when their price is unduly depressed by temporary adversity. In other words, they should be bought on a bargain basis or not at all.

To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks.

Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will.

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.

The Bible is not an option, it is a necessity. You cannot grow spiritually strong without it.

Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.

It was nothing personal: if it had been, I would have left him on so he could have suffered like everyone else.

A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.

Very few great goals actually go in.

There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.

If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential empty-handedness, and that willingness to be taken by surprise, all in one voice.

The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.

The entire plan for the future has its key in the resurrection.

God is concerned about everything that concerns us - without exception.

Many people have come to Christ as a result of my participation in presenting the Gospel to them. It's all the work of the Holy Spirit.

You will only get out of a dance class what you bring to it. Learn by practice.

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

As long as nothing happens anything is possible.

There ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. - Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.

Most of all, God has blessed us by giving us the privilege of knowing Him and walking with Him every day. He did this by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins.

I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us.

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

When the storms of life come, if they come to me personally, to my family or to the world, I want to be strong enough to stand and be a strength to somebody else, be shelter for somebody else.