Alan Graham > Quotes

“In our culture we dress up these megachurch pastors in these little suits, with their “education” and their ability to vaguely pontificate, and we think those people best emulate the Jesus of today. Whereas the image of Jesus of today and tomorrow and yesterday is really the Houston Flakes—the broken and the battered, the Peters and the Pauls, the Thomases, the persecuted. Servitude that transcends. Not pastors in castles.”
― Alan Graham, Welcome Homeless: One Man's Journey of Discovering the Meaning of Home

“If we look at the Bible as a memory aid meant to reorient us to where we came from and get us back home, it might mean we live a life filled with the kind of adventure it was always intended to hold. At least that’s what happened to me.”
― Alan Graham, Welcome Homeless: One Man's Journey of Discovering the Meaning of Home

“to be fully human is tying together the heart and the head, and by doing this, we can be more aware of the threads that connect us.”
― Alan Graham, Welcome Homeless: One Man's Journey of Discovering the Meaning of Home

“You’ve got to empathize, not sympathize. Take that loose thread. Start to pull. Let the whole thing unravel. Let’s start making something stronger. More beautiful.”
― Alan Graham, Welcome Homeless: One Man's Journey of Discovering the Meaning of Home

“Scattergraphs (sometimes known as scatterplots or scatter diagrams) are useful for representing paired data in such a way that you can more easily investigate a possible relationship between the two things being measured.”
― Alan Graham, Statistics: A complete introduction: Teach Yourself

“There are interesting patterns evident in this particular back-to-back stemplot, but we will defer speculating about them until the next chapter.”
― Alan Graham, Statistics: A complete introduction: Teach Yourself

“Stemplots, sometimes called ‘stem-and-leaf’ diagrams, can often be used as an alternative to histograms for representing numerical data.”
― Alan Graham, Statistics: A complete introduction: Teach Yourself

“Think about it. We are born into a relationship. You are born in the womb, deeply connected to and dependent on your mother. You eat what she eats. You hear what she hears. That need for connection doesn’t change, but it can end up looking like a lot of different things. What gives consistency to people is a deep sense of worth—a feeling of being loved as we are loved by God.”
― Alan Graham, Welcome Homeless: One Man's Journey of Discovering the Meaning of Home

“A further subtlety of a histogram which distinguishes it from the bar chart is that the widths of its bars (which correspond to the class intervals) need not all be the same.”
― Alan Graham, Statistics: A complete introduction: Teach Yourself

“Start seeing the world for what it really is—dirty, rough, tragic, and beautiful. It is truly a wonderful mess.”
― Alan Graham, Welcome Homeless: One Man's Journey of Discovering the Meaning of Home