Doe Quotes - Page 56

That faith be analyzable does not necessarily imply a method for getting by without it. . . .

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.

Pat Patterson works at The Brisco Brothers bodyshop Yeah, he does rear-end work!

To be sure, the story of Hurricane Katrina does have a moral for anyone not deliberately blind. The races are different. Blacks and whites are different. When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western Civilization-any kind of civilization-disappears.

Your Saying "God is Most Great" does not mean that He is greater than something else, since there is nothing else alongside of Him, so that it could be said that He is greater than it. Rather, the meaning of Allahu Akbar is that He is much too great to be perceived by the senses or for the depths of His Majesty to be reached by reason and logic, and indeed, that He is much too great to be known by an other-than-Him for truly, no one knows God but God.

One who advances his name, destroys his name. One who does not increase, diminishes.

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

The trouble begins when we start to be so impressed by the strategies of our systematized thought that we forget that it does relate to an obverse, that it is hewn from negation, that it is but very small security against the void of negation which surrounds it.

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.

The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him "better.".

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.'

It doesn't matter what you do. It matters who you are.

The Constitution does not just protect those whose views we share; it also protects those with whose views we disagree.

The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.

Everybody does the things that top people do occasionally. Top people do these things all of the time.

Happiness is not found, it is created. Happiness does not depend on all that we lack, but on the way in which we use all that we have

We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.

The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold: Nothing touches but, clutching, devours.

An Organisation That Does Not Invest In Itself, Has No Future.

Material wealth does not equate to success. Equanimity and peace of mind does

Whatever I'm working on, I get excited. It does not matter whether I have done the same piece many times. I still can't wait to get out to the shop in the morning.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

One does what one is; one becomes what one does.