Jo Graham Quotes

The greatest surprise in life to me is the brevity of life.

Is he ever going to learn?

We've got to cut the extraneous out of our lives, and we've got to learn to stem the inflow. We need to think before we buy. Ask ourselves, 'Is that really going to make me happier? Truly?'

My Lord, what love is this that pays so dearly. That I, the guilty one, may go free!

God never tempts any man. That is Satan's business.

The investor should be aware that even though safety of its principal and interest may be unquestioned, a long term bond could vary widely in market price in response to changes in interest rates.

You should be allowed to be a modern city dweller and still care about the environment.

Time is of the essence - and I'm very short of essence.

When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

You cannot build a superstructure on a cracked foundation.

The Holy Spirit gives liberty to the Christian, direction to the worker, discernment to the teacher, power to the Word, and fruit to faithful service. He reveals the things of Christ.

Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?

The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.

I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

No employer is going to hire robustly until they know what the health care cost is going to be.

I believe one of the next great moves of God is going to be through the believers in the workplace.

We have found that marriage should be made up of two forgivers. We need to learn to say, "I was wrong, I'm sorry." And we also need to say, "That's all right, I love you."

All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.

In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk.

The greatest miracle of the Bible is that the prophets of Israel could keep a religion as clean as a hounds tooth amid all the corruption and idolatry of the nations surrounding them.

There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three.

You never put off until tomorrow or even this afternoon what you can do this morning. Attack the objective when your desire is strongest.

The past is not dead; it is not even past. People live on inner time; the moment in which a decisive thought or feeling takes place can be at any time. Timeless feelings are common to all of us.

The Spirit goes ahead of us when we witness--- preparing the way, giving us the words, and granting us courage.

Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced by issues much more reasonable priced.

Whatever you love most, be it sports, pleasure, business or God, that is your god!

Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon.

Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by over-enthusiasm or artificial stimulants.

I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.

It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.

Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances.

I found a piece of paradise to call my own, and life is worth living again, for to love you, to me, is to live.

While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster

Even when life may be difficult, we should thank God for all He does for us-which we do not deserve.

A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value that does not depend on its share price.

I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it.

A checkbook is a theological document, it will tell you who and what you worship.

Pray when you feel like it, pray when you don't feel like it, pray until you do feel like it!

Whatever power I exert is collegial.

The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man

I am against abortion; I think that life is sacred and we should take a position of being against abortion. I think it is wrong to take human life. I think that human life starts at conception.