Doe Quotes - Page 194

Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

It really has lifted my spirits. It's intensified my faith, given me more hope. That's what music does for me.

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

I have a consistent rule: The American people should know as much about the Pentagon as the Soviet Union and China do, as much about General Motors as Ford does, and as much about City Bank as Chase Manhattan does.

. . . denn da ist keine Stelle, die dich nicht sieht. Du musst dein Leben andern. (... for there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.)

Trees do not force their sap, nor does the flower push its bloom.

Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down

Boasting is only a masked shame; it does not truly believe in itself.

We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.

The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.

In a universe governed by God there are no chance events. Indeed, there is no such thing as chance. Chance does not exist. It is merely a word we use to describe mathematical possibilities. But chance itself has no power because it has no being. Chance is not an entity that can influence reality. Chance is not a thing. It is nothing.

All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.

Every question does not deserve an answer.

For who does not know, or does not advert to the fact, that what was given to the Roman Church by Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and is preserved even to this day, is what should be observed by all? Nor should anything be added, or anything unauthorized be introduced, nor should an exemplar be looked for elsewhere.

When we do not profess Jesus Christ, we profess the worldliness of the devil, a demonic worldliness.

We also must learn to listen more to our conscience. Be careful, however: this does not mean we ought to follow our ego, do whatever interests us, whatever suits us, whatever pleases us. That is not conscience.

I cannot imagine a Christian who does not know how to smile. May we joyfully witness to our faith.

The primary contribution that the Church offers to the development of mankind and peoples does not consist merely in material means or technical solutions. Rather, it involves the proclamation of the truth of Christ.

For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.

If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

Let him take heart who does advance, even in the smallest degree.

No soul willfully does wrong.