Doe Quotes - Page 36

Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.

How does it happen that something that makes so much sense in the moonlight doesn't make any sense at all in the sunlight?

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

...having a member who serves in the Government and who also belongs to the structures of the party does not retard this particular objective the separation of party and state. It does not.

Whoever does not hold his tongue cannot understand his deen.

Pathology is a relatively easy thing to discuss, health is very difficult. This, of course, is one of the reasons why there is such a thing as the sacred, and why the sacred is difficult to talk about, because the sacred is peculiarly related to the healthy. One does not like to disturb the sacred, for in general, to talk about something changes it, and perhaps will turn it into a pathology.

Nature has no reverence towards life. Nature treats life as though it were the most valueless thing in the world.... Nature does not act by purposes.

Trust perfected is prayer perfected. Trust looks to receive the thing asked for and gets it. Trust is not a belief that God can bless or that He will bless, but that He does bless, here and now. Trust always operates in the present tense. Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses. Trust receives what prayer acquires. So, what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.

A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere.

Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell.

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified-if he does it right.

Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?

There have been times of late when I have had to hold on to one text with all my might: "It is required in stewards that a man may be found faithful." Praise God, it does not say "sucessful.

The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

Karate aims to build character, improve human behavior, and cultivate modesty; it does not, however, guarantee it.

I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.

What does it mean when your heart's already numb? You're a professional.

A good idea is something that does not solve just one single problem, but rather can solve multiple problems at once.

Never believe a prediction that does not empower you.

Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.

Advent increases our hope, a hope which does not disappoint. The Lord never lets us down.

Wisest is he who knows what he does not know.

You cannot choose your battlefield, The Gods do that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew.

Love does not go away, it changes.

The teenagers aren't all bad. I love 'em if nobody else does. There ain't nothing wrong with young people. Jus' quit lyin' to 'em.