Doe Quotes - Page 116

God does not want us to be living in the past, in shame, in fear, or in the future, in worry. He wants us to be living in the present, in now, with Him.

Scripture does not say that God is 'love, love, love' or that He is 'wrath, wrath, wrath,' but that He is 'holy, holy, holy.'

That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?... It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.

I feel a complete protection on my pilgrimage. God is my shield. There are no accidents in the Divine Plan nor does God leave us unattended. No one walks so safely as those who walk humbly and harmlessly with great love and great faith.

A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.

You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed.

Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed.

A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.

Public schooling does not serve a public; it creates a pubic.

Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut, and don't ask an academic if what he does is relevant.

One thing we all know, if one does not possess PERSISTENCE, one does not achieve noteworthy success in any calling.

The fact that the entire world says something does not mean it is correct

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it.

If the 'I am the doer' idea goes, then only I Am remains and that 'I Am' has no religion.

The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.

The appreciation of life does not require wealth or plenty. It requires only gratitude for the beauty of the world.

A story, after all, does not only belong to the one who is telling it. It belongs, in equal measure, to the one who is listening.

There is no binary division to be made between what one says and what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying things.

Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.

He's nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one's nastiness does not make one nice.