Doddie Johnson Quotes & Sayings

I still got a lot of grudges, it's high time we take out some judges. — Willie D

Faith is a living, unshakable confidence in God's grace; it is so certain that someone would die a thousand times for it. — Martin Luther

God gave us intelligence and faith. All we have to do is use it. — Janet Lambert

Time rides with the old
At a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds
See the near landscape fly and flow behind them,
While the remoter fields and dim horizons
Go with them, and seem wheeling round to meet them,
So in old age things near us slip away,
And distant things go with us. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Conversely, every moderate seems to believe that his interpretation and selective reading of scripture is more accurate than God's literal words. Presumably, God could have written these books any way He wanted. And if He wanted them to be understood in the spirit of twenty-first-century secular rationality, He could have left out all those bits about stoning people to death for adultery or witchcraft. It really isn't hard to write a book that prohibits sexual slavery - you just put in a few lines like "Don't take sex slaves!" and "When you fight a war and take prisoners, as you inevitably will, don't rape any of them!" And yet God couldn't seem to manage it. This is why the approach of a group like the Islamic State holds a certain intellectual appeal (which, admittedly, sounds strange to say) because the most straightforward reading of scripture suggests that Allah advises jihadists to take sex slaves from among the conquered, decapitate their enemies, and so forth. — Sam Harris

None of them really wanted to listen to someone else's story anyway; they only wanted to tell their own. — Hanya Yanagihara

Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch. — Joseph Goebbels

It's the whole cat and mouse game between the readers and writers that makes the web work. — Tim Berners-Lee

When we take one step toward the Self, It takes nine steps towards us. — Lester Levenson

Do you think people can be rehabilitated and forgiven?"
"Sure! Look at Ollie North."
"Well, he lost that Senate race. He was not sufficiently forgiven."
"But he got some votes," Jan insisted.
"Yeah, and now what is he doing?"
"Now he's back promoting a line of fire-retardant pajamas. It's a life! — Lorrie Moore

Don't tell her. Buy what you need and i'll cover the cost."
"You sure?"
"Yeah." Echo wanted that car running and i wanted to see that siren smile. — Katie McGarry