Doe Quotes - Page 350

Faith is above all a personal, intimate encounter with Jesus, and to experience [His] closeness, [His] friendship, [His] Love; only in this way does one learn to know [Him] ever more, and to love and follow [Him] ever more. May this happen to each one of us.

Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.

Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.

We will not conquer our obstacles by running away from them. Speed does not matter, just that we do not stop.

Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.

If, as is believed by many Canadians, Canada can not exist without Quebec, then it simply does not deserve to exist.

One does not always sing out of happiness.

Most of us who have been lucky enough to hear, read and see the Dalai Lama, often come away thinking, "What a kind, inspiring and golden human being!" That is true, but I think it does him an injustice.

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

I swear by the invigorating shampoo and conditioner by Como Shambhala. When you’re in need for a quick mental vacation, it does the trick

...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multitudes.

God does not accept me conditionally, on the basis of my performance, but bestows his love and forgiveness freely, despite my innumerable failures.

Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken

Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.

The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.

It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either of those things, it's embarrassing.

And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

Sometimes, of course, the artist does give up, saying, in effect, "I've done enough". Prospero declares that the revels are ended, and breaks his staff - his author retires to Stratford. At the very end, Mann did something similar. Interestingly, in both instances, death came quite quickly after that.

I felt I should also contrast Visconti's treatment of the novella - usually damned by Mann fans (who typically respect Britten's more "faithful" adaptation). The Visconti film does many quite wonderful things, although there are good reasons for the condemnation.

What they do not comprehend is man's helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad? Isn't it that way? Whom the gods notice they destroy. Be small... and you will escape the jealousy of the great.

By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no matter how seemingly insignificant, vibrates through the strands and affects every man.

Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and by that, I don't just mean five or six centuries ago.