Doe Quotes - Page 198

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.

The way I deliver it is meant to be fun. Does it hurt sometimes? Yes, but it is meant to be funny not offensive.

There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in well-doing, that gives us an inward satisfaction, and a certain generous boldness that accompanies a good conscience.

I really like 'Girls.' I know everybody does, but I love 'Girls.

The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does

Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend to be remembered with laughter?

It works well for me to go ahead and prepare the sermon with a chapter in mind. What that does is to force me to be very thrifty in my language, tighten up my words and not ramble so much. It puts some fiber in the sermon.

Earning trust is not easy, nor is it cheap, nor does it happen quickly. Earning trust is hard and demanding work. Trust comes only with genuine effort, never with a lick and a promise.

Thinking which displaces, or otherwise defines, the sacred has been called atheistic, and that philosophy which does not place it here or there, like a thing, but at the joining of things and words, will always be exposed to this reproach without ever being touched by it.

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.

Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.

Skepticism does not preserve us from foolhardy deeds.

All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.

True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.

Starvation is incredibly frightening when it finally sets in with a vengeance. And when it does,you are surprised. You hadn't meant this. You say: Wait, not this. And then it sucks you under and you drown.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.

A bird only flies. It does not turn to another bird and ask, am I doing this right?

For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven.

I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study of God's word becomes corrupt. Because of this we can see what kind of people they become in the universities and what they are like now.