Joel Houston famous quotes

Originally, I didn't want to say too much about the art...
-- Joel Houston

#Art #Want #Too Much

If our worship is just great youth meetings, nice songs, lots of jumping around and a few CDs, then we're missing it. Our vertical expression must have a horizontal effect. So, we'll continue to worship, praise and honour God with heart, soul, mind and strength the best we know how, but the fruit of that must be a generation who are totally committed to reaching the lost and helping those who need help, locally and globally.
-- Joel Houston

#Song #Nice #Heart

When we ignore the prostituted child, we actually lend our hand to their abuse. When we ignore the widow and the orphan in their distress, we actually add to their pain. When we ignore the slave who remains captive, it's us who is entrapping them. When we forget the refugee, it's actually us who is displacing them. When we choose not to help the poor and the needy, we actually rob them. Perhaps the only fair thing to say is that when we forsake the lives of others, we actually forsake our own.
-- Joel Houston

#Children #Pain #Hands

When you are out of your comfort zone God can do what only He can do.
-- Joel Houston

#Comfort #Comfort Zone #Zone

There's an element of fervor and passion that you can't describe when it comes to people who, their faith literally might cost them their life.
-- Joel Houston

#Passion #People #Elements

Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.

Has it led you to the conclusion that photography is an art ? Or it is simply a means of recording ? "I'm glad you asked that. I've been wanting to say this for years. Is cooking an art ? Is talking an art ? Is even painting an art ? It is artfulness that makes art, not the medium itself. Of course photography is an art - when it is in the hands of artists."

We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.

You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.

One thing my wife says is bad about me is that I still care too much.

I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.

Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.