Quotes on Doe

I believe because I am told to believe ... My faith is faith; it is not evolved out of argumentation, nor does it seek the aid of that.

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.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface.

A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.

Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something.

One person can and does make a difference.

Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.

He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from man.

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.