Jo Graham Quotes

We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)

When we grieve over someone who has died in Christ, we are sorrowing not for them, but for ourselves. Our grief isn't a sign of weak faith, but of great love.

Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not.

Destruction after all is a form of creation.

You cannot control what you love--you watch it driving recklessly towards the broken bridge, the torn-up track, the horror of seventy years ahead.

It's a good world if you don't weaken.

All good novelists have bad memories.

I had never known her before and I had never loved her so much. The more we know the more we love, I thought.

A murderer is only an extroverted suicide.

... the way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.

Evangelistic preaching is what Daddy does, I never thought I would.

We remember the details of our story, we do not invent them.

The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.

All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.

Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You existed.

Much of the philosophy of religious education has been based upon a false premise, and perhaps many have missed the essence of Christian experience, having had religious training take its place.

My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.

He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.

Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.

Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.

While we do not place our faith directly in angels, we should place it in the God who rules the angels; then we can have peace.

The word of God teaches that Christians suffer in order that they might glorify God in their lives.

I get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for action in so many modern plays.

The Lord blesses people who bless others, and He gives grace to those who focus on the things that please Him.

Life is a glorious opportunity.

The longer I lived in the east, the more completely I realized that, for better or worse, I was going to be, to everybody's mind, wherever I lived, a Texan.

Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't, why should we? They talk about people and the proletariat; I talk about the suckers and the mugs. It's the same thing.

If you live in a place for long you cease to read about it.

This (Vietnam) was a land of rebellious barons. It was like Europe in the Middle Ages. But what were the Americans doing here? Columbus had not yet discovered their country.

They haven't left us much to believe, have they? — even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home, or anything vaguer than a human being.

Cruel men cry easily at the cinema.

The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life.

To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.

Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.

O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.

Ringing assurance that we are not alone... That we are assisted and defended by a powerful and glorious order of invisible Beings.

When you come to Christ, you have to give up all the other gods.

Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories.

Some of us want the crown before the cross.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

Faith is loved and honored by God more than any other single thing.

I haven't been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.

I don't have many sad days.

Millions of angels are at God's command.

For the Christian, all is not hopeless unless his affections are centered on the things of this world.

I have never talked publicly or privately about the Jewish people, including conversations with President Nixon, except in the most positive terms.

I can't prove it scientifically, that there's a God, but I believe.