Jo Graham Quotes

It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals.

There was a tacit understanding between them that 'liquor helped'; growing more miserable with every glass one hoped for the moment of relief.

It's a pity people pick and choose what they learn from the Bible.

God doesn't owe us anything yet in His grace, He still gives us good things.

Speculative stock movements are carried too far in both directions, frequently in the general market and at all times in at least some of the individual issues.

The sillier the market's behavior, the greater the opportunity for the business like investor.

I have nothing to say about my childhood. It was a perfectly pleasant upbringing - it's not like it was unhappy or anything.

Learn to keep close to Jesus, to listen to His voice, and follow Him.

I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.

Sin is the second most powerful force in the universe, for it sent Jesus to the cross. Only one force is greater-the love of God.

Kindness is an essential part of Gods work and ours here on earth.

Homes that are built on anything other than love are bound to crumble.

Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself.

Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.

Shearer could be at 100% fitness, but not peak fitness.

I'm the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour.

If fees consume more than 1% of your assets annually, you should probably shop for another adviser.

Men change, fashions change, conditions and circumstances change, but God never changes.

It's what I always wanted to do, to show the laughter, the fun, the joy of dance.

The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control.

God's holiness demands that sin be punished - but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.

For 99 issues out of 100 we could say that at some price they are cheap enough to buy and at some price they would be so dear that they would be sold.

No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.

The stock market resembles a huge laundry in which institutions take in large blocks of each others washing ... without rhyme or reason.

Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.

In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of investment than has the factor of long-term growth or decline

Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.

A brain is only capable of what it could conceive, andit couldnt concieve what it hasnt experienced

All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.

Pain is easy to write. In pain we're all happily individual. But what can one write about happiness?

It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.

The Bible is clear that the Holy Spirit is God Himself.

Heaven is full of answers for which nobody ever bothered to ask.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

In one bold stroke, forgiveness obliterates the past and permits us to enter the land of new beginnings.

The wonderful news is that our Lord is a God of mercy, and He responds to repentance.

When God forgives us and purifies us of our sin, He also forgets it. Forgiveness results in God dropping the charges against us.

It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.

When danger reared its ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

John Howard Davies was not a very human person ... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.

The thought of the future life with its prerogatives and joys helps to make the trials of the present seem light and transient.

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.

To be converted to faith in Jesus Christ is to return to the worship of the true God, and to dethrone all rivals to his authority.

God's angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

I am just one of many thousands called to be an evangelist.

The final result of our researches has widened the class of substances sensitive to light vibrations, until we can propound the fact of such sensitiveness being a general property of all matter.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring than the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest. If the home deteriorates, civilization will crumble and fall.