Girardon Quotes & Sayings

Most of our difficulties in our daily lives come from being unable to hold our minds in this way. For instance, if a man does evil to us, instantly we want to react evil, and every reaction of evil shows that we are not able to hold the Chitta down; it comes out in waves towards the object, and we lose our power. — Swami Vivekananda

I'm the weirdo. There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, that's not gonna make me happy. — Chris Robinson

People who are great thinkers, in science or in art, people who are great performers, have to have that kind of capacity. Without that kind of capacity, it's extremely difficult to manage a high level of performance because you're going to get a lot of extraneous material chipping away at the finery of your thinking or the finery of your motor execution. — Antonio Damasio

I'm always being realistic. — Stefan Edberg

OK," Reacher said. "It wasn't a colonel. It was a one-star general. — Lee Child

Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your judgments are like the great deep; you save humans and animals alike, O LORD. — Anonymous

Because what is at stake for Jesus is not the proclamation and realization of new ethical ideals, and thus also not his own goodness (Matt. 19:17), but solely his love for real human beings, he can enter into the communication of their guilt; he can be loaded down with their guilt ... . It is his love alone that lets him become guilty. Out of his selfless love, out of his sinless nature, Jesus enters into the guilt of human beings; he takes it upon himself. A sinless nature and guilt bearing are bound together in him indissolubly. As the sinless one Jesus takes guilt upon himself, and under the burden of this guilt, he shows that he is the sinless one. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The proper worldview context for interpreting the Bible is not evangelicalism, Catholicism, the Protestant Reformation, the Puritans - or even the modern world. The proper context for interpreting the Bible is the context in which it was written - that of the ancient biblical writers. — Michael S. Heiser

In the American Technopoly, public opinion is a yes or no answer to an unexamined question. — Neil Postman

A fault denied is twice committed. — A.C. Grayling

That would bring tears to the eyes of a rocking chair. — Bucky Harris

It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets. — Albert Einstein

The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with' only to discover that they are still there. — Ingrid Bengis

With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player. — Sharon Begley