Jo Graham Quotes

When we are called before God and His throne of judgment, it will be too late to reverse our decision. It is during our lifetime here on earth that we decide our eternal destiny.

Part of the human makeup which distinguishes man from other creatures is his ability to reason and make moral decisions. Man is a free moral agent.

Once God leads you to make a decision, don’t draw back. Instead, trust His leading, and believe He goes before you—because He does.

The most important decision you will ever make is the decision you make about eternity.

Some people resist the idea of a choice of any sort. They don’t want to be called “narrow.” But Jesus taught that there are two roads, and you have to choose which road you will take.

There are two masters, and you have to choose which master you are going to serve.

There is not a day that we do not have a chance to choose between the devil’s clever promises and God’s sure Word.

From the beginning of time until the present moment, man’s ungodly quest for power, his determination to use his gift of free choice for his own selfish ends, has brought him to the brink of doom.

Our families cannot choose Christ for us. Our friends cannot do it. God is a great God, but even God can’t make the decision for us . . .we have to make our own choice.

[God] created us free to choose how we would live . . . but leaves us free to pursue our own ends with tragic, natural consequences.

The Antichrist . . . will be the embodiment of evil, and will have great power to deceive those who choose to follow him.

The destiny of your own soul is in your own hands by the choice you make.

Blood is the symbol of the life sacrificed for sin.

We are called to obey Christ. He is the Master of our lives and has washed us in His blood, which cleanses our souls, our minds, and our mouths. The world is watching. What do they see and hear?

The distinctive feature of Christianity is blood atonement. Without it we cannot be saved. Blood is actually a symbol of the death of Christ.

[Today] there is less emphasis on redemption by the blood of Christ.

Today the idea of the shed blood of Christ is becoming old-fashioned and out of date in a lot of preaching. It is in the Bible. It is the very heart of Christianity.

Anxiety and fear are like baby tigers: The more you feed them, the stronger they grow.

Look up on a starry night, and you will see the majesty and power of an infinite Creator.

Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us.

Hypochondriacs who have a fanciful anxiety about their health will never be well regardless of their physical condition.

Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age?

Men and women who give [Christ] first place find that there is no need for anxiety about this world’s goods.

The Bible is the one book which reveals the Creator to the creature He created! No other book that man has conceived can make that statement and support it with fact.

There is no conclusive scientific evidence that man is “up from the ape.” While the animals were created “after their kind, ” we are told that “God created man in His own image” [Genesis 1:27 NKJV].

Any theory of the universe that does not take into account the God and Creator of the universe is not worthy of serious consideration.

God is the Ruler of His mighty creation. There is no reason to despair, because He holds in His hands the whole world, while His Spirit is able to fill the void in man’s heart.

[God] has in mind a picture of what He intends to create. He breaks, cracks, chisels, and polishes until one day there emerges His vision . . . God has not yet finished with us.

By faith I accepted Him for what He claimed to be, the Son of the Living God. That simple decision changed my life—and I have seen it change the lives of countless others across the world.

You need to make the right decision—firmly and decisively—and then stick with it with God’s help.

Conscience is our wisest counselor and teacher, our most faithful and most patient friend.

Christ can rid you of inner conflict. Man without God is always torn between two urges. His nature prompts him to do wrong, and his conscience urges him to do right.

In your own mind-darkened, will-paralyzed, conscience-dulled soul, God can make the light penetrate and turn the darkness of your own life into day, if you will let Him.

Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilty conscience were worse than prison bars.

Dishonesty is never justified. God will never approve, and even your own conscience will rise up to condemn you sooner or later.

The human conscience is reliable only when it is guided by the Holy Spirit.

Some Christians have an elastic conscience when it comes to their own foibles—and an ironbound conscience when it comes to the foibles of others.

Sin also affects the conscience, until one becomes slow to detect the approach of sin.

There are storms in your own life: storms oftemptation, confusion, and difficulty . . .An uneasy conscience says, “Stop before it is too late!

As a person finds God’s will for his or her life, matters of conscience can be handled with perception from the Holy Spirit.

From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life.

The one and only choice by which you can be converted is your choice to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as your own personal Lord and Savior. The word “conversion” means simply “turning.

In every true conversion the will of man comes into line with the will of God.

The converted person will love the good he once hated, and hate the sin he once loved.

In order to get to heaven, Jesus said that you must be converted. I didn’t say it—Jesus said it!

It is a comfort to hear the words of God in times of stress.

God doesn’t comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

There are countless opportunities to comfort others, not only in the loss of a loved one, but also in the daily distress that so often creeps into our lives.

When we are a comfort and encouragement to others, we are sometimes surprised at how it comes back to us many times over.

Humanity wants comfort in its sorrow, light in its darkness, peace in its turmoil, rest in its weariness, and healing in its sickness and diseases: The Gospel gives all of this to us.