Jo Graham Quotes

I have heard the hollow, shallow laughter of the world. I have heard the genuine laughter of the beaming young Christian. I know there is a difference.

Any Christian whose interest is directed toward himself is worldly.

Jesus told His disciples that the “world, ” meaning the world system, the political and social order organized apart from God, will despise Christians.

Those who believe [in Christ] are expected to be different from the world . . . they are members of a new society.

Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage. He offered us, not an excursion, but an execution. Our Savior said that we would have to be ready to die to self, sin, and the world.

Those who have actually experienced daily fellowship with Christ know that it surpasses all worldly activities.

There are so many professing Christians who are walking hand in hand with the world that you cannot tell the difference between the Christian and the unbeliever. This should never be.

As Christians, we are not to get our worlds mixed up . . . We are not to mingle with the world, but we are to witness to the world.

Do not expect me to fall in with the evil customs and ways of the world. I am in Rome, but I will not do as Rome does. I am an alien, a stranger, and a foreigner. My citizenship is in heaven.

It is only the consecrated, Spirit-filled Christian who can have victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil. It is the Holy Spirit who will do the fighting for you.

Worldliness is actually a spirit, an atmosphere, an influence permeating the whole of life and human society, and it needs to be guarded against constantly and strenuously.

Our world needs to be touched by Christians who are Spirit-filled, Spirit-led, and Spirit-empowered.

The entire world is in turmoil. We are living in a time of enormous conflict and cultural transformation. We have been stunned by shockwaves of change in nation after nation, all around the globe.

Too many people want to have one foot in the world and one foot in the kingdom of God, and it is like straddling a fence. You are not happy either way. Declare yourself for Christ.

We live in a hostile world that constantly seeks to pull us away from God.

Far too many young people coming of age today have no spiritual or emotional roots. They have been deprived of values by an agnostic and contemporary culture.

I have found that most young people really want us to spell out a moral code. They may not accept it or believe it, but they want to hear it, clearly and without compromise.

In America we have an idolatry called the “adulation of youth.” Apparently distressed by their inability to communicate with the younger generation, many adults simply imitate it.

All young people sin, and sin produces discord, repellent vibrations which rifle the concert of life until the strings are gutless and flat. The kicks soon lead to kickbacks.

[Young people, ] dress as attractively as you can. You are an aristocrat, a child of God.

Young people are experts on leisure, water skiing, dancing, rock music, rapping, TV watching . . . by and large, chores are a thing of the past.

Wherever the Word of God is hidden or ignored, there will be certain destruction.

Don’t rebel, but give God the opportunity to change your life and help you over the problems of youth, for they are many.

Do young people have the moral stamina to carry through in case of economic depression? . . . The real tests of the [younger] generations have not yet come, but they are on their way!

The Bible teaches that there will be a famine of the Word of God in the last days . . . spiritual starvation leads to spiritual death.

Confrontation is the special business of young people. They confront their parents, peers, society, law enforcement officers, and themselves, but primarily they confront God.

What is the most difficult word for young people to pronounce? It’s the word no. When we say no [to what is against God], He will help us to stand by it. He will give us courage.

It is strange that the world accepts enthusiasm in every realm but the spiritual.

We don’t live in an ideal world, but in a world dominated by sinful, selfish desires.

Worldliness is an inner attitude that puts self at the center of life instead of God.

Too many times we are concerned with how much, instead of how little, like this [world] we can become.

The saddest words I can ever imagine would be to hear the Lord say, “I never knew you. Away from Me” [Matthew 7:23 NIV].

It often takes a tragedy to open our hearts, minds, and wills to the truth of God’s Word.

While those around you are filling their minds with the bad news about man in their daily papers, steep yourself in the good news about God in His precious Word!

Don’t argue with [a professor], but test everything he says in the light of God’s Word.

We need to fortify ourselves with the Word of God.

I look upon it as a lost day when I have not had a good time over the Word of God.

Some, who doubt that the Bible is the true Word of God, doubt it because they are unwilling to ascribe to God anything they cannot themselves achieve.

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God’s Word.

As Christians, we have only one authority, one compass: the Word of God.

Nothing will help us grow spiritually more than spending time alone with God every day, reading His Word and praying. Time alone with God is essential to our spiritual welfare.

The Old Testament may not seem relevant to us today—but it is, because it is part of God’s Holy Word, and He has much to teach us through its pages.

Through the written Word we discover the Living Word—Jesus Christ.

God never leads us to do anything that is contrary to His Word. But the opposite is also true: God always leads us to do everything that is in agreement with His Word.

Who can tell us how to get along with each other better than God? Where can we turn for wisdom better than God’s Word, the Bible?

A computer . . . has no worth unless it is programmed . . . The believer has tremendous potential, but that potential cannot be used until he is programmed with the Word of God.

The Spirit of God takes the Word of God and makes the child of God.

When I quote Scripture, I know I am quoting the very Word of God.

Scientific discoveries (not theories) are found more and more to fit into the record God has given us in His Word.

The fact that God is infinite makes the study of His Word a lifetime occupation.