Jo Graham Quotes
It is in our DNA to create space, to open up safe places, and to change the atmosphere where we live.
We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time.
Don't be a half-Christian. There are too many of such in the world. The world has a profound respect for people who are sincere in their faith.
I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.
Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.
We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer.
There is not a single thing that Jesus cannot change, control, and conquer because he is the living Lord.
Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.
Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.
Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb you know, most of it's up until you reach the very very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply.
The best stuff in life isn't stuff at all... relationships, experiences & meaningful work are the staples of a happy life.
Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.
It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put Jesus on the cross - it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer His death.
It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face.
In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand.
Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.
Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.
We cannot win this war on terror if people are undercutting us. And one way to undercut us is to empower Iran.
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
We come from nothing, we are going back to nothing-In the end what have we lost? Nothing!
For me, wearing lingerie isn't about anyone else but me. If I dressed for others I would be a miserable person.
You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives.
If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.
Whatever affliction comes in our life, our Lord goes into the valley with us, leading us by the hand, even carrying us when it is necessary.
In some churches today and on some religious television programs, we see the attempt to make Christianity popular and pleasant. We have taken the cross away and substituted cushions.
Before you invest, you must ensure that you have realistically assessed your probability of being right and how you will react to the consequences of being wrong.
My first real showbiz job was on a Nickelodeon show called 'Hey, Dude.' That was my first real paid scriptwriting job.
Love your children-and let them know you love them. Children who experience love find it far easier to believe God loves them.
It was Christ who willingly went to the cross, and it was our sins that took him there.
Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.
I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.
If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer.
If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume.
We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.
For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.
The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.