Doe Quotes - Page 96

I never see a forest that does not bear a mark or a sign of history.

Ordinary life does not interest me.

The glory does not lie in our inadequacy, but lies in the adequacy of Christ discovered in our weakness and in our insufficiency.

Scoring goals is like making love: everyone can do it, but nobody does it like me.

I avow that I do not hold that complete and instantaneous love for the freedom of the press that one accords to things whose nature is unqualifiedly good. I love it out of consideration for the evils it prevents much more than for the good it does.

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.

It is with a word as with an arrow--once let it loose and it does not return.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.

The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.

For the assertion that "There is no God" is just as much a claim to knowledge as is the assertion that "There is a God." Therefore, the former assertion requires justification just as the latter does.

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.

Protest is when I say this does not please me. Resistance is when I ensure what does not please me occurs no more.

The thing about God, she thought, is that He usually does help, but not until you've made an effort on your own.

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

If there is a nice place, and the place does not come to you - you have to come to the place.

I feel lonely at times, but I don't want to get into a relationship with someone if it is not right. I'm not the type of person who just does things to do them.

Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.

Why is it that aggression in the name of God shocks secular liberal sensibilities, whereas the act of killing in the name of the secular nation, or of democracy, does not?

The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.

This does not --ing slip now.

An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.

There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care to look too closely.