Doe Quotes - Page 160

Man makes religion, religion does not make man

I am a kite in a tornado, but I have a long string.

A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn't expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.

Wisest is she who knows she does not know.

If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going to have a schizophrenic crackup. The person has put themselves off center. They have aligned themselves with a programmatic life and it's not the one the body is interested in at all.

...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?

Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing.

No theology is genuinely Christian which does not arise from and focus on the cross.

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.

God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.

The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.

He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.

There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.

Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?

No, that's what I think God does to you. He gives you some great gig in which you make a whole heap of money, and you're just on top of the world and on every magazine cover, but your personal life is miserable. And for most of that time, I have to say, my personal life was pretty miserable.

Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic.

This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.

I finally understand that it’s okay to be a little afraid of things but that obsessing over them does not mean you have any more control over what you fear.

Although most Americans don't know it, the U.S. gets more oil from Canada than it does from the entire Middle East.