Jo Graham Quotes

One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.

Don't wavier. Make a decision. Do it now.

Theater used to be a verb; it used to be an act. But nowadays it is just a noun. It is a place.

If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again!

If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

Prayer is hard work. We may neglect it because we're too tired, too busy, or too distracted to put into prayer the effort required.

Death is a door. When we close our eyes in this life, we will open our eyes to Jesus.

Tim Keller's ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him.

Psychaiatrist realize that there are curative powers in confession.

It's a matter of how the bullpen looks as to whether Bell goes in there or Crow goes in there. Bell won't be ready for a start for another 10 days.

The Beatles are a passing phase, symptoms of the confusion about us.

Angels belong to a uniquely different dimension of creation which we, limited to the natural order, can scarcely comprehend.

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.

History is only a tiresome repetition of one story. Persons and classes have sought to win possession of the power of the State in order to live luxuriously out of the earnings of others

The seed of sin is in us when we are born.

There is no such thing on this earth as something for nothing.

Some people say they will follow their conscience..many of us have dead consciences. Your conscience is no longer a safe guide. You've harden it, you've deaden it.

Often the only thing a child can remember about an adult in later years, when he or she is grown, is whether or not that person was kind to him or her.

There were so many outstanding women in scripture that were leaders. And, you know, the organized church sometimes puts boundaries on us that the Bible doesn't.

My life's goal is not to write books; my life's goal is to know God better today. The neat thing about a goal like that is you can achieve it. Faith is constant; it's a relationship.

The Christian is an idol breaker.

The blessing of my mother is that she is so interested, she is so bright, she never complains - the joy of the Lord just bubbles out of her. Anybody who's in her presence is blessed to be there.

I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.

"I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing.

Today, we come together to confess our need of God. Those perpetrators who took us on to tear us apart, it has worked the other way. It has backfired; it has brought us together.

There is no device whatever to be invented for securing happiness without industry, economy, and virtue.

What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?

Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.

Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.

A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

Darwin was as much of an emancipator as was Lincoln.

Our certainty that angels right now witness how we are walking through life should mightily influence the decisions we make. God is watching, and His angels are interested spectators too.

It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.

Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.

Society needs first of all to be free from meddlersthat is, to be let alone.

For a married couple to expect perfection for each other is unrealistic.

If you allow a political catchword to go on and grow, you will awaken some day to find it standing over you, arbiter of your destiny, against which you are powerless.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.

My fans are incredible. Don't you dare talk bad about me on my Instagram, because my fans will come out and they will eat you alive.

If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.

I was the first size 14 model to be featured in an ad in the magazine,I was the first size 14 model on the cover!

The millionaires are a product of natural selection ... the naturally selected agents of society for certain work. They get high wages and live in luxury, but the bargain is a good one for society.

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

Nine-tenths of our measures for preventing vice are really protective towards it, because they ward off the penalty.