Doe Quotes - Page 43

The superior person is in harmony, but does not follow the crowd. The lesser person follows the crowd, but is not in harmony.

The greatest danger that besets us does not come from believers or atheists; it comes from those who, under the guise of religion, science or reason, imagine that we can free ourselves from the limitations of human nature and perfect the human species.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.

Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn't know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.

Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

He who does not work shall not eat

Now, the first preachers of the Christ evangel preached Christ. They did not, in the first place, preach salvation or sanctification or forgiveness, or judgment or heaven. That does not mean that they did not preach those things: they did; but not in the first place. They preached Christ, and all those things were included in the preaching of Christ.

How does a guy look at another guy's hairy ass, and find love?

Every author has different ways of writing and what works for one author does not necessarily work for another.

Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need.

If a Work of God does NOT Continue, it was NEVER a Work of God.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?

If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease?

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral.

Man’s works do not even come close to the works of the Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit does not work, all the efforts of man will come to naught.

Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.

He who loves is not ashamed before men of what he does for God, neither does he hide it through shame though the whole world should condemn it.

There is something else that is trying to come through - that lure of becoming - and it does come from the realm of spirit, it does come from the quantum universe, it does come from the great spark that is the threshold of time and history trying to emerge and electrify us.

Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.

We don't live forever... Our legacy does.

I don't care what the critics say. My fabulous mom will give me a good review if nobody else does.

Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin "helping' them. Such a world does not exist - never has.

Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.