Jo Graham Quotes

Peace without energy may be only stagnation; and energy without peace may be but a form of panic.

Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.

Talk about God can become dreary and lackluster if God isn't in you.

Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.

It's a paradise that we are going to go into, because to be in the presence of God itself will be a paradise.

This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather than announced, so show, don't tell.

Look, I happen to agree with what George says about the interpretation of the New Testament, but I want to remind both of you to never play God.

What happens if you drop all the things that make you I?

An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.

Throughout my ministry, I have sought to build bridges between Jews and Christians.

They are always saying God loves us. If thats love Id rather have a bit of kindness.

It takes suffering to widen the soul.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

when we travel, most of us take too much. I always work on the assumption that I'm going to take everything with me because I don't want the second wife to have anything if the plane crashes.

Do I have more depth than I'm given credit for? No!

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

The trouble is I don't believe my unbelief.

Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

Ann Winder-Boyle's small-scale encaustic pictures always reward a second look - they have an intriguing edge of darkness about them.

Everyone wants to be an "expert" on social media and share their opinion behind the keyboard.

The next best thing to talking to her is talking about her.

So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.

One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand.

Life is not a chain of events but an area-something spreading out from a hidden centre and welling at once toward all points of the compass.

Every successful work of God must have opposition.

Parents teach their children to look both ways when crossing the street. They tell them to look only one way when choosing a religion.

Every hour of every day, at every level in every organization, influential people succeed and non-influential people don't.

If the bible proves the existence of God, then Action Comics prove the existence of Superman.

It hurts to leave a light on for nobody.

I sometimes mistake my typewriter for my teeth, because the more I bite the more my column will be read.

I've had quite a lot of bad experiences with Japanese sweets. I reckon, Japanese...they can do most things really well but sweets, they're a bit dodgy.

We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.

We're all so busy. We race and race. Life is a sprint. We want to get 'there' so badly. But I wonder if we even know what to do when we actually get 'there'.

The players are looking forward to it because they'd like revenge

Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.

Every shoebox offers an opportunity to share the Good News of the Savior with a hurting child

If I had to do it all over again, I would speak less and study more.

Discipline is liberation.

Abortion continues to be a scourge against this country.

Sin then is not a toy with which to play but a terror to be shunned.

The world's favorite verb is 'get'. The verb of the Christian is 'give'

Send me the half that's got my keys.

Virtue its own reward? Alas! And what a poor one as a rule! Be virtuous and life will pass Like one long term of Sunday School.

Guten Morgen, mon ami!Heute ist es schönes Wetter!Charmé de vous voir ici!Never saw you looking better!

Could I do with a little life editing? Would that give me a little more freedom? Maybe a little more time?

There are idiots in every crowd.

I basically think that I'm a fairly nice, normal person with just a few eccentricities.

Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events.

The only sin I think a commander in chief can make is exaggerating successes and not understanding the challenges.