Doe Quotes - Page 23

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality that may subvert the old given text and its interpretation and lead to the embrace of an alternative text and its redescription of reality.

You entrust your money to banks, God entrusts His money to you. How would you feel if the bank took your money and used it to play the lottery or gamble with it? So, how does God feel?

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

One ungrateful person does an injury to all needy people.

The ocean does not require that the waves are still to be more ocean-like.

How much money does it take to make a man happy? Just one more dollar.

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

If slavery be a sin, it is not yours. It does not rest on your action for its origin, on your consent for its existence. It is a common law right to property in the service of man; its origin was Divine decree.

The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.

Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.

Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.

Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life?

Freedom of the press is not questioned when investigative journalism unearths scandals, But that does not mean that every classified state document should be made available to journalists.

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.

If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God’s.

An authentic spirituality does not cater to culture; it calls culture to accountability.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual

I believe in the impossible because no one else does.

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.