Doors Quotes - Page 7

Humanity is at a fork in the road and we can no longer stand there staring at the map pondering which direction to take. It is hardly a choice, after all. One Road leads to a global fascist dictatorship that would control every aspect of our lives, including our thoughts. The other will open the door to freedom and potential on a scale never experienced in the 'world' as we have known it. Hard one, isn't it? A choice between a prison and a paradise?

Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

For every crime that comes before him, a judge is required to complete a perfect syllogism in which the major premise must be the general law; the minor, the action that conforms or does not conform to the law; and the conclusion, acquittal or punishment. If the judge were constrained, or if he desired to frame even a single additional syllogism, the door would thereby be opened to uncertainty.

Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are at risk, regardless of how they got there or whether they know God's name. Sometimes it comes as an extended human hand and sometimes as a bolt from the blue, but either way it opens a door in what looked for all the world like a wall. This is the way of life, and God alone knows how it works.

When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning.

Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; He who loves, finds the door open.

To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest relationship with the Maker and Preserver of all things: begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.

As in the case of California, the wolf is at the door of America and the present administration acts as if it's a pussycat. America cannot maintain the present entitlement programs and support a government this size and keep on living on a credit card.

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.

I believe in destiny. I believe destiny opens doors for you, but it's up to you to walk through them.

True science discovers God in an ever-increasing degree — as though God were waiting behind every door opened by science.

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.

I’m a Southern girl. I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I’m really into a man’s man.

I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?

The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’

in the mornin' po-lice at my door Fresh adidas squeak across the bathroom floor Out the back window.. I make a escape Don't even get a chance to grab my old school tape

All things are possible, except skiing through a revolving door.

Knowledge knocks on the door of action. If it receives a reply, it stays. Otherwise, it departs.

Our assets walk out of the door each evening. We have to make sure that they come back the next morning.

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you: 'Do you want to pick door #2?' Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -