Doe Quotes - Page 185

The Soul is a fact, but it is not physical. ... Survivors of near-death experiences attest that some part of them apparently detaches from their physical bodies following the death of the body, but while that is proof of the soul for them, it does not prove it to us. The Soul is like divine music that only God can hear; it is the force of endless resurrection; the soul is like a fire that never goes out.

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it's always "a big breakthrough" or a "radical departure." Why is is no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?

Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path.

Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.

A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts

I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change #‎ God - it changes me.

Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity.

True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.

Sometimes you say to yourself: the fire in me is going out. But you were not the one who lit that fire. Your faith does not create God, and your doubts cannot banish Him to nothingness.

God is the Creator and the Giver of life, and the life that He gives does not run dry.

It is you!" the man exclaimed. "We thought you weren't coming for another week!" "Ashe," Sarene mumbled, "who is this lunatic and what does he want with me?

Does one deserve to have evil done to her by consequence of putting herself where evil can reach her?

One should never be where one does not belong.

We do not understand the intricate pattern of the stars in their courses, but we know that He who created them does, and that just as surely as He guides them, He is charting a safe course for us.

An area of life that does not have hope is under a lie.

Whenever I'm confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does.

Romance is an illusion. Well, romance is not a complete illusion, but it's ephemeral. It does not last.

Ask not first what the system does; ask what it does it to!

Music does not excite until it is performed.

There are two things: 1) what things one does in the world, and 2) what family one has. There's the two really tangible things that can stay.

Hale Irwin is the exception. He just does everything so well.

The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.