Girzone Joseph Quotes & Sayings

I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny. — Pat Metheny

Was there ever really a chance for us? What is down in the middle of him, his very center? Does he even have a center, or do you just cut away the layers, away, away, away, until you are left with nothing? — R.A. Nelson

Emotional and psychological pain were to become, perhaps, the most powerful force in molding the course of my life. For some people, pain and hurt breed bitterness and cynicism. For others it causes them to look deeply into themselves and into life itself in an attempt to understand the meaning beneath seemingly capricious or arbitrary happenings. — Joseph Girzone

But God is never cruel. — Joseph Girzone

Pain and suffering are the dark strands through the tapestry of your life, providing the shadows that give depth and dimension to the masterpiece God is fashioning within you. — Joseph Girzone

Big-picture, hands-off leadership isn't likely to work in a change situation, because the hardest part of change - the paralyzing part - is precisely in the details. — Chip Heath

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up. — Mick Jagger

When they boo you, you know they mean you. — George Halas

God has no favorites. — Joseph Girzone

Religion would certainly be more relevant to the hurting masses of humanity if people could express their hopes and dreams and pain and anguish to one another in the context of religious worship. As it is now our services are so antiseptic and sterile that people gathering for worship relate to others at only the most superficial level, and hardly ever get to know one another ... Maybe that is one of the reasons why people feel religion is irrelevant, because they cannot find support and solace during times of crisis and pain. That is when real religion should be at its best. — Joseph Girzone

It's a feeling, followed by a choice made in the face of chaos and uncertainty: I don't know where this road will take me, but I want you by my side on the journey. — Melanie Harlow

Unfortunately, many people do not feel comfortable with freedom. They must find for themselves a leader, a guru, or a mentor to take over the direction of their spiritual lives and who will tell them what to do and how to think. A guide or a counselor is understandable, as in sports or music or in any pursuit, but that is not enough. Many mistakenly believe they have to be led each step of the way. — Joseph Girzone

I think not focusing on money makes you sane because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy. — Kevin Systrom

The poor never have enough for themselves ... but always have enough to give away. — Joseph Girzone

It's not your word that matters, it's who you give it too. — Ernest Borgnine

Joshua chose the simple life ... because it gave him the freedom to expand the breadth of his inner life. — Joseph Girzone

Just like other ordinary people, I want to have a happy family. — Lee Byung-hun

But a dream is nothing more than reality shorn of cynicism. — Joseph Girzone

God has graced you with many gifts, and you are very dear to Him, because you allow Him to use you as a partner in the work He has planned for your life. — Joseph Girzone

The houses people live in reflect their opinions of themselves. — Joseph Girzone

Only the individual knows to what God is calling him. — Joseph Girzone

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. — Fredrika Bremer

It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband. — Ismail Merchant

No matter how bad you think something is, when you look into it, it's always worse. — M. Stanton Evans

If you want to have peace of soul, learn to forgive. Jesus' secret was His ability to see into people's hearts. Seeing their anguish and pain helped Him to understand their nastiness. So He could pity them rather than become angry with them. That is what we have to do: try to understand the pain in people's lives ... and not take personally what they do to us. — Joseph F. Girzone

The Jungle Law is a law without exceptions. Only the strong survives. Animals are following it, human societies are following it. It is the law of the beast, and it knows neither reason nor compassion — Stephan Attia

One of the problems we have is that we cannot just be content to admire and enjoy, we have to possess and feel we own what we see. That can become for many of us an addiction which adds a complication to our life and takes away our peace of mind. Craving things becomes after a while a serious distraction and an obsession. — Joseph Girzone

We have endless books about whether Jesus existed, or whether the Jesus we have learned about is really accurate and historical or mythical. We have endless complicated tracts on fine technical issues, but we don't explore Jesus' way to happiness and peace, or try to understand his feelings about God and creation of how he views our relationship with God, or his attitude toward human weakness. Understanding these things could help us immensely in our own search for inner peace and a meaning to life. — Joseph Girzone

I learned that I was never alone, that there was Someone always very close by and, indeed, within me, giving me strength in times of weakness and desolation, light in times of darkness, joy in times of great sorrow and pain, and the will to struggle on when continuing seemed futile. — Joseph F. Girzone

The kind of prayer I am talking about is a detached kind of prayer in which you are not looking for anything, just putting yourself in God's presence and sharing with him what you are feeling or what you are suffering. It is the kind of prayer in which you just open your heart to God and say, "God, I'm here. I'm not asking for anything, God. I just want to be near you and open my heart to you." — Joseph Girzone