Doe Quotes - Page 64

Look at your goals. Look at your behavior. Does your behavior match your goals?

No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.

The whole earth, then, belongs to Jesus. It belongs to him by right of creation, by right of redemption and by right of future inheritance - as Paul affirms in the magnificent cosmic declaration of Colossians 1:15-20. So wherever we go in his name, we are walking on his property. There is not an inch of the planet that does not belong to Christ. Mission then is an authorized activity carried out by tenants on the instructions of the owner of the property.

Your history does not need to define your destiny.

It is wonderful how God works by our hands, and yet His own hand does it all.

We’ve got ninety-nine per cent the same genes as any other person. We’ve got ninety per cent the same as a chimpanzee. We’ve got thirty per cent the same as a lettuce. Does that cheer you up at all? I love about the lettuce. It makes me feel I belong.

It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

Saturday comes again, welcome or not, it comes again like it always does, welcome or not, wanted or not, another judgment day - The chance to be saved, the chance to be damned.

The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others.

There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.

Just because I accept you as you are does not mean that I have given up all hope of your improvement.

"We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."

HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that

Nothing old is ever reborn, but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been [born], will always reappear in a new form.

Whenever difficulties appear, the rider must ask himself: does the horse not want execute my demands, does he not understand what I want, or is he physically unable to carry them out? The rider's conscience must find the answer.

If the doctor of today does not become the dietician of tomorrow, the dietician of today will become the doctor of tomorrow.

Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.

I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it is impossible to make valid affirmations of what people 'can' or 'cannot' observe. One would have to say 'only what we observe exists,' which is obviously false.

I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?

Love does not fail for you when you are rejected, betrayed or apparently not Loved. Love fails for you when you reject, betray and do not love. Therefore .. Love.

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

Money does not make you look expensive, it’s taste.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.