Doe Quotes - Page 34

What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

The first essential for the coming of the Holy Ghost into a heart today is that the heart should be cleansed from sin, for the Holy Spirit does not fill an unclean heart. What God has cleansed, He then fills. Finally, whom God fills, He uses. A holy life is the authentic sign of being filled with the Spirit.

Sure God's all powerful, but does he have lips?

A peacemaker does not mean a peaceful person.

If you give your trust to a person who does not deserve it, you actually give him the power to destroy you.

A believer is an evangelist primarily by who he is and how he lives-not by what he says. What he says is important; but unless his speaking tallies with what he is and does, he had better keep quiet.

Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities. Chaos is from the ancient Greek words that means a thing that is birthed from the void. And it was about that which is possible, not about disorder.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rick as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.

Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is in taking this risk that we rediscover our dignity. To bring the truth of ourselves, just as we are, to God, just as God is, is the most dignified thing we can do in this life.

The kingdom of heaven is closer than the brow above the eye but mankind does not see it.

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.

It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.

Show me a worrying person and I will show you a person who does not know how to relax.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement at the same moment and place that the soul does.

As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.

Faith does not ask for possible things; it demands impossible.

And yet, sometimes facts are no more than pitiful consequences, because guilt does not reside in our acts but in the intentions that give rise to our act. Everything turns on our intentions.

The merit of the cross does not consist in its heaviness, but in the manner in which we carry it. I would even say that it is sometimes more virtuous to carry a cross of straw than a heavy cross because we have to be more attentive for fear of losing it.

Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one….

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.