Doe Quotes - Page 53

The best thing we can do is be a servant of God. It does good to stand up and serve others.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

Faith does not change my circumstances; faith changes me. Faith may not bring in the tuition check when I need it, but faith will give me what it takes to hang on.

God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.

Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.

Consciousness does matter. Matter is secondary. Consciousness is primary. Brain does not do consciousness, consciousness does the brain.

To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way that it is by virtue of those processes that we come to have knowledge of him.

Ah, but life is like that! It does not permit you to arrange and order it as you will. It will not permit you to escape emotion, to live by the intellect and by reason! You cannot say, 'I will feel so much and no more.' Life, Mr. Welman, whatever else it is, is not reasonable. [Hercule Poirot]

He who does not live in the way of his beliefs starts to believe in the way he lives.

Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it is condemned to failure.

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.

The presence of many does not and cannot replace the absence of one. That is love.

If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.

In the spiritual life, he who does not advance goes backwards.

Christianity can be described as a theological materialism: It is that which transforms our material existence. If our faith does not throw us into the arms of the world, if it does not lead to our experience of responsibility, love, celebration, and our commitment to transformation, then, whatever we call it, we have nothing but an empty shell.

You get another person who operates only in an African language and there are many persons who operate only in African languages; he or she is excluded from all the goodies that come with English. And even in terms of justice, law codes, the legal system. A person who does not know English in Africa is excluded from that system because he can only operate through acts of translation.

We can what-if ourselves to death... But what-if never does anybody any good. All any of us ever have...is one thing, and we better make the most of it while we can: What is.

I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.

Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.

No people and no part of a people shall be held against its will in a political association that it does not want.

He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.