Doe Quotes - Page 76

Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.

Why are there organized beings? Why is there something rather than nothing? Here again, I fully understand a scientist who refuses to ask it. He is welcome to tell me that the question does not make sense. Scientifically speaking, it does not. Metaphysically speaking, however, it does. Science can account for many things in the world; it may some day account for all that which the world of phenomena actually is. But why anything at all is, or exists, science knows not, precisely because it cannot even ask the question.

All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.

You keep waiting for the moral of your life to become obvious, but it never does. Work, work, work: No moral. No plot. No eureka! Just production schedules and days. You might as well be living inside a photocopier. Your lives are all they're ever going to be.

The beauty of the sunbeam lies partly in the fact that God does not keep it; he gives it away to us all.

Moving from an objective statement of fact to a subjective statement of value does not work, because it leaves open questions that have not been answered.

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

The grace that does not change my life will not save my soul.

What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

Love, respect, and friendship do unite a people as well as a common hatred does.

The Arab world is also the world that produced some of the greatest improvements in mathematics and in science. Even today, when a Princeton mathematician does an algorithm, he may not remember that "algorithm" derived from the name al-Khwarizmi, who is a ninth-century Arab mathematician.

There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.

Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

Macho does not prove mucho

Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does.

I feel like as musicians we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry. Once that does finally die, which it will, something else will happen.

The man who hunts a deer does not gaze at the mountains.

An allopath comes and treats cholera patients and gives them his medicines. The Homeopath comes and gives his medicines and cures perhaps more than the allopath does because the Homoeopath does not disturb the patients but allows the nature to deal with them.