Quotes on Doe

For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

Whenever you create a universal device that does all things for all people, it does not do any things well.

Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does not exist.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

How does one magnify a calling? Simply by performing the service that pertains to it.

The truth is that money doesn't make you rich; knowledge does.

In the search [of a deal], we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: It pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry.

The real does not die, the unreal never lived.

Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to be happy increases your humanity. As you become less attached to the world, you become more humane. As the very purpose of spiritual practice is to help others, you must remain in society.

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?

Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.

There is no cross, big or small, in our life which the Lord does not share with us.

It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine.

We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.

Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.

If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

Those who are living the principle of honesty know that the Lord does bless them. Theirs is the precious right to hold their heads in the sunlight of truth, unashamed before any man. Brothers and sisters, the Lord requires his people to be honest. May we desire with all our hearts to be honest in all our relationships and in all the things that we do.

When you become a star, you don't change - everyone else does.

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.