Jo Graham Quotes

The Internal Revenue Service wants a record of how you spend your money, but that is nothing compared to the books God is keeping.

Money takes our minds off God.

Covetousness puts money above manhood. It shackles its devotee and makes him its victim. It hardens the heart and deadens the noble impulses and destroys the vital qualities of life.

If we allow our Christian faith to be adulterated with materialism, watered down by secularism, and intermingled with a bland humanism, we cannot stand up to a system that has vowed to bury us.

Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday’s luxuries are today’s necessities.

There are two ways of being rich—have a lot, or want very little. The latter way is the easier for most.

There are those who have made their fortunes on other people’s misfortune. The Bible never promised that life would be fair.

Christ . . . didn’t come to treat symptoms. He came to get at the very heart of man’s disease.

Reading the Bible has a purifying effect upon the heart and mind. As you read, the Holy Spirit will enlighten the passages for you.

A true messenger lives a burdened life. If he is the Lord’s vessel, he carries in his heart a burden for souls none can share but those who know it firsthand.

The heart of man, though small, is big enough for Christ to live in, if man will only make room for Him.

Two conflicting forces cannot exist in one human heart. When doubt reigns, faith cannot abide. Where hatred rules, love is crowded out. Where selfishness rules, there love cannot dwell.

Man himself is helpless to detach himself from the gnawing guilt of a heart weighed down with the guilt of sin. But where man has failed, God has succeeded.

Don’t ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn’t want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.

It is possible through sin to harden our hearts against God so long that we lose all desire for God. The Scripture says: “God also gave them up” [Romans 1:24 KJV].

The heart symbolizes the center of our moral, spiritual, and intellectual life. It is the seat of our conscience and life.

Understanding the consequence of sin and arrogance should motivate every Christian to pray for repentance and revival.

More friction and tensions are caused in a family by tone of voice than for any other one reason.

Many times it takes just one member of a family to initiate the action to bring a family back together again.

Your own family circle knows whether Christ lives in you and through you.

We need to place God at the center of our family . . . As a family, we need to walk with God daily.

No subject is closer to my heart than the family . . . The moral foundation of our country is in danger of crumbling as families break up and parents neglect their responsibilities.

A Christian has tremendous responsibilities to his own family. He or she has a responsibility of loving each member of the family.

It is only the strong Christian family unit that can survive the coming world holocaust.

God knew that children grow and mature best in a stable, loving family, and this was one reason He gave marriage to us.

We have exchanged love of family and home for cyberfriends and living in constant motion that robs the soul from memories—and perhaps from that still, small voice that longs to be heard.

Not only does God give us a new relationship with Himself and make us citizens of His kingdom, but He also gives us a new family—the family of God.

Amazing things can happen when the family of God bands together.

Repent means to renounce sin . . .and by God’s grace to fill my mind with things that honor Him.

What does repentance mean? It means to change—to change your mind, change the way that you’re living—and to determine that with God’s help you will live for Christ.

No matter what the climate is, what the troubles are, what the difficulties are, there is joy for the child of God, because joy is produced supernaturally by the Holy Spirit in us.

Without Him our daily routine would become tiresome and tedious, a drudgery rather than a joy.

Only the forward-looking Christian remains sincerely optimistic and joyful, knowing that Christ will win in the end.

Without dark clouds in our lives we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.

The ability to rejoice in any situation is a sign of spiritual maturity.

Pleasures are the things that appeal to our flesh and to our lust. But joy is something else. Joy runs deep.

We have to be tuned to God. We will never be free from discouragement and despondency until we know and walk with the very fountainhead of joy.

By the 1960s the United States had a new ruling class—the teenager!

To injure, ignore, disrespect, and violate the innocence of a child are among the greatest evils known to man.

Truth is easier for a child to handle than evasiveness.

Before the seventeenth century, a child passed directly into the adult world between the ages of five and seven . . . then came the industrial revolution . . .so the child-centered home was born.

Children must be taught obedience just as much as they need to be taught to read and write.

Children, pray for the salvation of your parents.

It may shock some parents to learn that we don’t own our children. God has given them to us in trust . . . however, God may transfer our children to His home at any time.

I missed the joy of seeing our children grow and change. I thank God for watching over them during those years.

Our lives speak loudly to those around us, especially the children in our home.

One of life’s mysteries is why two children growing up in the same home sometimes take radically different paths—one following Christ, the other rebellious and scornful. Yet it happens.

God gave us our children so we could prepare them to become adults.

Children will learn far more by watching than by just listening.

One of the worst things we can do is allow our children to grow up thinking they don’t need to keep any rules. A spoiled child becomes a spoiled adult.