Jo Graham Quotes

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener.

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

When we come to Christ, we’re no longer the most important person in the world to us; Christ is. Instead of living only for ourselves, we have a higher goal: to live for Jesus.

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

A good rule to remember for life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain.

Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.

We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

Worship and worry cannot live in the same heart: they are mutually exclusive.

God has not always answered my prayers. If He had, I would have married the wrong man -- several times!

The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

A successful marriage is made up of two good forgivers.

Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don't complain.

Taking all vegetable-eating nations together . . . they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters.

... the thing that kept Christ on that cross was love, not the nail.

Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations.

We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.

There is no reason to hide and every reason to flaunt.

Problems are invitations. They allow us to have encounters and experiences that enable us to discover who God is for us.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Mediocrity is always invisible until passion shows up and exposes it.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.

Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Misery is a communicable disease.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

We're not attacking Islam but Islam has attacked us. The God of Islam is not the same God. It's a different God, and I believe it [Islam] is a very evil and wicked religion.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

When God’s putting His finger on the part of your life that’s not working, He’s pointing to your next miracle.

Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment; being a Christian is the work of a lifetime.

Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.