Doe Quotes - Page 20

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.

I don't really think that the technique really determines the veracity of the image. It's what the image does to the viewer that determines whether it's right or wrong.

I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.

A country is not only what it does but what it tolerates.

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.

The body's weakness comes from illnesses, while the heart's weakness comes from sins. And just as the body does not taste the delights of food when it is ill, the heart does not taste the delights of worship when it is sinful.

There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what he or she is told to do, and the other is the person who does no more than he or she is told to do.

A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?

So what does it look like to live a life worthy of the gospel of Jesus Christ? It looks like walking with, loving with, and doing life with those who are different from you. What binds you together is Christ. It looks like striving together to make Christ known. What motivates you is Christ. And it looks like standing with courage against all oppressors, natural or supernatural. What secures you is Christ.

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does.

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance - against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance.

A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.

This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.

Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?

Am I jealous? he thought, astonished. Jealous of the chance object to which she has attached herself? Jealous of something that does not concern me? One can be jealous of a love that has turned away, but not of that to which it has turned.

Our world is obsessed with success. But how does God define success? Success in God's eyes is faithfulness to His calling.

It does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have done enough is when we are running on empty and when the ones we love most are the ones we see the least.

The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.