Doe Quotes - Page 164

God does not take away trials or carry us over them, but strengthens us through them.

Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

Everybody who does anything at all does too much.

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under the care of its parents... But to what extent does the wiring of the neurons, so undeniably encoded in the genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow?

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

The story of the gospel is so much better than the legal model suggests. It tells us that we are created as God's partners, not God's enemies. Sin does a lot of damage to that partnership - it disables us, it discourages us, it disturbs us - but it never destroys the bond that exists between God and humanity.

I do what I do out of pure enjoyment. Hopefully, nobody does it better. There's a beauty to making a great deal. It's my canvas. And I like painting it.

When you come up with a good idea, you dont have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.

Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

The voice does go up in a poem. It is an address, even if it is to oneself.

Continuity does not rule out fresh approaches to fresh situations.

God has called every Christian to international missions, but He does not want everyone to go. God calls some to be senders.

Messi is the world's best and gets physically attacked every game but all he ever does is get up and get on with it.

Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it.

Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.

A ruthless man extends his ruthlessness from those he does not love to those he loves.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.