Doe Quotes - Page 22

Our first postulate is that because God is God, He does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases; that His great concern is the accomplishment of His own pleasure and the promotion of His own glory that He is the Supreme Being, and therefore Sovereign of the universe.

I think the amazing thing about Gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.

Your situation does not embarrass God because He has solution.

The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much.

He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

Does our Gospel presentation make men excited about what God can do for them on this earth, or about whom God is?

The time has come for an all-out war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for "the least of these".

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

Life is precious, do not waste it doing anything that your heart does not respect or agree with.

Right is right, even if no one else does it.

If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

The solutions are here. They have always been here. Food does matter!

A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

So many of you have lost everything. I do not know what to tell you. But surely he knows what to tell you! So many of you have lost members of your family. I can only be silent; I accompany you silently, with my heart...

A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.

Why this strange indifferences to missions? Why these scant contributions? Why does money fail to be forthcoming when approved men and women are asking to be sent to proclaim the “unsearchable riches of Christ” to the heathen?

It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies -- whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.

One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One often dies because one does not have the right alliances, because one is not given support. In Sicily the Mafia kills the servants of the State that the State has not been able to protect.

Vodka does not ease back pain. But it does get your mind off it.

But the Dark cannot claim what Light does not surrender.

Mindfulness does not mean pushing oneself toward something or hanging on to something. It means allowing oneself to be there in the very moment of what is happening in the living process - and then letting go.