Doe Quotes - Page 72

The Universe does not compensate individuals based on the activity of work, but on the activity of consciousness.

Though the path is plain and smooth for men of good will, he who walks it will not travel far, and will do so only with difficulty, if he does not have good feet: that is, courage and a persevering spirit.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

God speaks to man through the Scriptures, and He does not reveal normative truth except as it is already revealed in the Scriptures themselves. The test of truth must remain not what man experiences today but what the Scriptures have stated long ago.

Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself, and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.

It's not what life does to you but what you do to life that counts.

The future does not get better by hope, it gets better by plan. And to plan for the future we need goals.

It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

It is not the government's purpose to make a profit the way a company does, because a company doesn't have to give a damn about the unemployed poor or provide services that are non-commercial by definition.

That is what poetry can do. It speaks to us of what does not exist, which is not only better than what exists, but even more like the truth.

Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.

Hate does not produce love, and by hate one cannot remake the world.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

When the honest, sincere Christian is faced with the decision regarding whether a thing is right or wrong, he should ask, does it agree with all that the Scripture has to say on the subject?

Art does not come from thinking but from responding.

Behold a tree. Does it not speak to us thusly: 'Don't you see that God is not working himself into a frenzy in me? I am calmly, quietly, silently pouring forth my life and bringing forth fruit. Do thou likewise.'

There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.

I dont really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

We came to see Jace. Is he alright?" "I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?

No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly

There is no love without friendship. Passion alone does not form relationships of value.