Jo Graham Quotes

When we succeeded in winning the Cold War, escaping a nuclear Armageddon that could have killed us all, the U.S. inevitably had a serious problem about an encore: what now for our place in the world?

We often become mentally and spiritually barren because we're so busy.

Your salvation depends on what [Christ] has done for you, not on what you do for Him. It isn't your hold on God that saves you. It's His hold on you.

Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch.

Price statistics show clearly that instability in raw-material prices is a prime cause of instability of other prices.

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

Often, in the midst of great problems, we stop short of the real blessing God has for us, which is a fresh vision of who He is.

Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.

I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

Suffering may be someones fault or it may not be anyones fault. But if given to God, our suffering becomes an opportunity to experience the power of God at work in our lives and to give glory to Him.

Courage is being afraid - and going ahead, anyway.

I have never been quite sure who controls the weather. Although we always prayed for clear skies, I have had to preach in all kinds of storms.

Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it was a fight' is the best compliment a game can receive.

Be blind. Be stupid. Be British. Be careful.

Status Quo is Latin for the mess we are in.

Although we may trust God's promises for life after death and the certainty of a heavenly home, we must still face the reality of death.

Martin guitars have now brought out, you know, on a more traditional level, the Stephen Stills' model of Martin guitars. It's beautiful. I just went inside. I bought one immediately.

My parents recognized something in me that they encouraged instead of deflated, and I'll always be grateful to them for that.

It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.

The women sit, getting colder and colder, on a seat getting harder and harder, watching oafs, getting muddier and muddier.

I've never been one to check for what the next person is doing. My circumstances and my mind have set me apart and I will never blend in.

Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.

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.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

May our prayers today, and every day, be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being.

You may be sensitive inside, but what I see on the outside is a soldier.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I terminated the interview when I didn't know what he was talking about and went upstairs to lunch.

What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives. Is that too much to ask?

I'm a lucky guy. No question.

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.

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.

I'm a bit of lunatic with shoes and jackets and jeans. It's just how I am.

Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.

Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness.

‎"Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.

... when we are hurt it is important to remember that God Himself has allowed it for a purpose.

The modern world is not geared properly to the storage of goods.

First we have to believe, and then we believe.

There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.

Cynicism is cheap - you can buy it at any Monoprix store - it's built into all poor-quality goods.

I can barely walk, but it's a privilege to be able to move at all.

Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.

There is no cannibalism in the British Navy, absolutely none. And when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount, more than I personally admit.

The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.