Doe Quotes - Page 225

The person who does not seek the kingdom first does not seek it at all, regardless of how worthy the idolatry that he or she has substituted for it.

It really does no good to ask questions that reflect opposition to the will of God. Rather ask, What am I to do?

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.

The fact that somebody does good doesn't make their beliefs true.

When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.

Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?

It doesn’t take time to change once you understand the problem...Somebody hands you a rattlesnake, it doesn’t take long to drop it, does it?

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

If only I kept my eye on the ball, Looking downward as does the pro there, I might not see where it was going, at all, But there might be a chance it would go there.

I know what Twitter is; I don't use it. I don't use Facebook, so luckily, it does zero to my ego.

The reason to get in touch with the culture is not to adopt it but to engage it for the same reasons a missionary does... to gain a hearing for the gospel.

The average detective story is probably no worse than the average novel, but you never see the average novel. It doesn't get published. The average -- or only slightly above average -- detective story does.... Whereas the good novel is not at all the same kind of book as the bad novel. It is about entirely different things. But the good detective story and the bad detective story are about exactly the same things, and they are about them in very much the same way.

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.

Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

God is nothing but creativity. So wherever there is a sign of creativity, God has a signature there. He has already been there. Maybe even the poet does not know, but he has been touched by something from the beyond.

I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.

What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.

Blessed is he whose fame does not outshine his truth.

Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.