Doe Quotes - Page 57

Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.

What does Sunday, the day of the Lord, mean for us? It is a day for rest and for family, but first of all a day for Him.

Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong.

Worship does not become worship until it changes the way we live

God does not call men to make Jesus Lord (as though they had such power), but to live in absolute submission to the Lord He has made.

Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.

Does the Lord intend to make man happy? Sure... but it's a byproduct, not a prime product.

The secret in riding is to do few things right. The more one does, the less one succeeds. The less one does, the more one succeeds.

Anybody who does not value what you have does not deserve your relationship.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still.

The measure of the state's success is that the word anarchy frightens people, while the word state does not.

Who am I that I should urge these missionaries to confess their sins in public, when, for all I know, they may be living nearer to God than I am? The Spirit of God does not need me to act as His detective.

History never exactly repeats itself, but it does some rather good impressions.

Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usually surround them with. God only doeth wonders. He does nothing else. His hand can work nothing less.

Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive.

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. Free choice among a wide variety of goods and services does not signify freedom if these goods and services sustain social controls over a life of toil and fear – that is, if they sustain alienation. And the spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the controls.

When someone is HIV-positive and his partner says, I want to have sexual relations with you, he doesn't have to do that. But when he does, he has to use a condom.

This is one of the charms of the desert, that removing as it does nearly all the accessories of life, we see the thin thread of necessities on which our human existence is suspended.

There is a Life Stream that flows to you, and this is a Stream of clarity, a Stream of wellness, a Stream of abundance - and in any moment, you are allowing it or not. What someone else does with the Stream, or not, does not have anything to do with how much of it will be left for you.

We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.

God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.

The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.