Joseph Girzone Quotes

• 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

  Prayer, Heart, Talking

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• 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

  Hurt, Pain, Powerful

  Joseph F. Girzone (1994). “Never Alone: A Personal Way to God”, Doubleday Books

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• 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.

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  Sports, Spiritual, Freedom

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• 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.

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  Pain, Dark, Giving

  Joseph F. Girzone (1997). “Joshua, the Journey Home: Includes Joshua, Joshua and the Children and Joshua in the Holy Land”, Arrowood Press

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

  Joseph Girzone

  Simple, Simplicity, Inner Life

  Joseph F. Girzone (1997). “Joshua, the Journey Home: Includes Joshua, Joshua and the Children and Joshua in the Holy Land”, Arrowood Press

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• 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

  Dream, Religious, Hurt

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• 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

  Addiction, Mind, Serious

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• 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

  Jesus, Attitude, Book

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• The poor never have enough for themselves ... but always have enough to give away.

  Joseph Girzone

  Giving, Poverty, Enough

  Joseph Girzone (1995). “Joshua”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• The houses people live in reflect their opinions of themselves.

  Joseph Girzone

  People, House, Opinion

  Joseph Girzone (1995). “Joshua”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• Only the individual knows to what God is calling him.

  Joseph Girzone

  Calling, Individual, Knows

  Joseph Girzone (1995). “Joshua”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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• But God is never cruel.

  Joseph Girzone

  God

  Joseph Girzone (1995). “Joshua In The Holy Land”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• God has no favorites.

  Joseph Girzone

  God

  Joseph Girzone (1995). “Joshua”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• ... but a dream is nothing more than reality shorn of cynicism.

  Joseph Girzone

  Dream, Reality, Cynicism

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