Doe Quotes - Page 232

God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing

Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.

Take a look at your own heart, and you will soon find out what has stuck to it and where your treasure is. It is easy to determine whether hearing the Word of God, living according to it, and achieving such a life gives you as much enjoyment and calls forth as much diligence from you as does accumulating and saving money and property.

Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being.

The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.

The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces.

Positively, the effect of speeding up temporal sequence is to abolish time, much as the telegraph and cable abolished space. Of course, the photograph does both.

Remember that whatever anyone does, it is an effort to meet a need.

Grace is always natural, though that does not prevent its being often used to hide a lie.

So do you want your life to "take off"? Begin at once to imagine it the way you want it to be-and move into that. Check every thought, word and action that does not fall into harmony with that. Move away from those.

Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income will a household need to put into debt repayment? How large is the down payment? Does the borrower have a job with a stable income? What is the borrower's credit score?

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the mechanism of the inimitable puppets that are going to perform. How I used to laugh at Simon Tapperwit, and the Wellers, and a host more! But I can't do it now somehow; and time, it seems to me, is the true test of humour. It must be antiseptic.

Usually when the opposing team does well, the crowd quiets down. All I began to hear was a chant 'L-S-U, L-S-U.' It got louder and louder and louder. It was the loudest I've ever heard a stadium.

Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.

Who will reach heaven? I do not know, but I am certain that no one will be there who does not feel at home.

Christ always calls us to life and constantly to greater joy, but rarely does He call us to comfort.

The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

Faith is not logical. But it isn't illogical either. Faith is theological. It does not ignore reality; it just adds God into the equation.

Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

Fortune does not change men; it only unmasks them. [..by how they choose to react to it.]

Does it follow that because there are poisonous toadstools which resemble mushrooms, both are dangerous?

It does feel bizarre, having someone in your work space who's so much younger than you.