Jo Graham Quotes

To the Son of God prayer was more important than the assembling of great throngs . . . He often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed [Luke 5:15–16].

Obedience is the master key to effectual prayer.

If we are to have our prayers answered, we must give God the glory.

Prayer and Bible study are inseparably linked. Effective prayer is born out of the prompting of God’s Spirit as we read His Word.

Too often we use petty little petitions, oratorical exercises, or the words of others rather than the cries of our inmost being. When you pray, pray!

Those you know the least may need your prayers the most. Don’t let the fact that you don’t know someone keep you from praying for them.

[Jesus] had only three years of public ministry, but He was never too hurried to spend hours in prayer . . . No day began or closed in which He was not in communion with His Father.

We must repent of our prayerlessness. We must make prayer our priority. Even our churches today have gotten away from prayer meetings.

You cannot pray for someone and hate them at the same time.

Prayer is for every moment of our lives, not just for times of suffering or joy. Prayer is really a place, a place where you meet God in genuine conversation.

Sometimes I’m asked to list the most important steps in preparing for an evangelistic mission, and my reply is always the same: prayer . . . prayer . . . prayer.

True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency. Make it a habit, and when the need arises you will be in practice.

Persecution, whether it is physical, social, or mental, is one of the worst types of pain, but those who persecute us are to be the objects of our prayers.

Prayer is powerful, but if our prayers are aimless, meaningless, and mingled with doubt, they will be of little hope to us.

We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God’s side.

If we are to depend on prayer during tough times, we should be people of prayer before the crisis hits.

Have you ever said, “Well, all we can do now is pray”? . . . When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God.

No matter where we are, God is as close as a prayer. He is our support and our strength. He will help us make our way up again from whatever depths we have fallen.

The most eloquent prayer is often prayed through hands that heal and bless.

When we know Him, we can be sure God hears our prayers.

When troubles come may prayer be your automatic response.

We were created to live a life of prayer.

Someone has said, “Prayer is the highest use to which speech can be put.

Prayer is key to our effort to communicate the Gospel and win men and women to Christ.

Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one ever bothered to ask!

I have never met anyone who spent time in daily prayer, and in the study of the Word of God, and was strong in faith, who was ever discouraged for very long.

If there are any tears shed in heaven, they will be over the fact that we prayed so little.

Christ can take the most sin-laden, selfish, evil person and bring forgiveness and new life.

Forgiveness is one of the most beautiful words in the human vocabulary. How much pain and unhappy consequences could be avoided if we all learned the meaning of this word!

Before asking God’s forgiveness there is something important you must do. You must repent, that is, turn from the behavior and lifestyle that [leads to sin].

When God forgives, there is an immediate andcomplete change in relationship. Instead of hostility, there is love and acceptance. Instead of enmity, there is friendship.

Repent when you fail, and immediately seek God’s forgiveness and restoration. Sin breaks our fellowship with God.

Guilt is not all bad. Without it there is nothing to drive a person toward self-examination and toward God for forgiveness.

The only sin God cannot forgive is the sin of rejecting Christ. Turn to Him in repentance and faith—and He will forgive.

Sinners, pray to a merciful God for forgiveness.

Truly, the world is in need of moral leadership . . .that teaches the difference between right and wrong and teaches us to forgive one another even as we are forgiven by our Father in heaven.

We make a mockery of God’s forgiveness when we deliberately engage in sin because we think He will forgive it later.

If there is something we need more than anything else during grief, it is a friend who stands with us, who doesn’t leave us. Jesus is that friend.

Often it takes that “knife in our heart” to drive us to Him. Our faith, our very lives, depend on God, and when we enter the valley of grief, we need His help or we will never climb another mountain.

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.

Grief turns us inward, but compassion turns us outward, and that’s what we need when grief threatens to crush us. The Bible says, “Carry each other’s burdens” [Galatians 6:2 NIV].

Grief which is not dealt with properly can cause us to lose our perspective on life.

Grief comes with many losses. Whatever its cause, grief will come to all of us.

The facade of grief may be indifference, preoccupation, anger, cheerfulness, or any variety of emotions. But if we try to understand it, we may learn how to cope with it.

Our imaginations are so stilted. The very thought of being like Jesus is breathtaking.

God is concerned with our imaginations, for they in a large measure determine what kind of persons we are to be.

Never has there been a time when men tried so desperately to have fun as they do today.

What shall I do, then, with Jesus who is calledthe Christ?” (Matthew 27:22 NIV). This is the most important question that has ever been asked. It is also the question you must ask yourself.

Sin diverts some. Pleasure diverts others. Social service and “religious” activity divert others. We are told to be occupied with Jesus Christ Himself.

Jesus knows the intentions of our hearts and what we do in secret.