Douglas V. Steere famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

No one ever did anything worth doing unless they were prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.
-- Douglas V. Steere

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Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished by the "beams of love."
-- Douglas V. Steere

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Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.
-- Douglas V. Steere

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Work without contemplation is never enough.
-- Douglas V. Steere

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In intercessory prayer, one seldom ends where one began.
-- Douglas V. Steere

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Determination is the fuel that propels one to higher virtues.
So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!
But the Congress has made the determination that certain kinds of information can be protected even though the American people may want to have access to information.
When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.
Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.
It's been so long and I'm lost without you, what am I gonna do? I been needin' you, wantin' you, wonderin' if you're the same and who's been with you. Is your heart still mine? I wanna cry sometimes ... I miss you.
People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
The scream of the twelve-inch shrapnel is more penetrating than the hiss from a thousand Jewish newspaper vipers. Therefore let them go on with their hissing.
It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

Douglas V. Steere famous quotes

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