I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If God never gave me one more thing in my life, then you, right now, would be enough. You are my Dayeinu”
Source: The Eagle and the Child: The Child
“If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people.”
“If God offers the world for sale, how much will you pay for it? What is the price of your own destruction?”
Source: Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 2: Astounding Biblical Mysteries revealed in his own words like never before in human history
“If God on the Cross is God shamming a human tragedy, it turns the Passion of Christ into the Farce of Christ. The death of the Son must be real. Father Martin assured me it was. But once a dead God, always a dead God, even resurrected. The Son must have the taste for death forever in His mouth. The Trinity must be tainted by it; there must be a certain stench at the right hand of God the Father. The horror must be real. Why would God wish that upon Himself? Why not leave death to the mortals? Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love. That was Father Martin's answer.”
Source: Life of Pi
“If ‘God only knows’ then there can be no safer journey.”
Source: Prana
“If God only used perfect people, He would have no one to use.”
“If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.”
“If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it's own reward?”
“If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.”
Source: Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most
“If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and most dreaded and dreary moments can see a possibility of hope ... Each one of us has the chance to be a rainbow in somebody's cloud.”
“If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative but to conceive of this Incarnation as something which is still present and which will remain present for all future time. ... What happens in the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist is something for which all religions of mankind have exressed longing, dimly sensed was coming, and as a rule even prefigured- the physical presence of the divine Logos made man, and the presence of his sacrificial death, in the midst of the congregation celebrating the mysteries.”
“If God really did create everything and the Bible is God’s decisive word about everything, then that means it’s not an opinion but an instruction manual.”
Source: Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
“If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him.”
Source: God and the State
“If God really knows everything and He only wants what is best for me, then why do I fight being obedient?”
Source: The Warrior's Bride: Biblical Strategies to Help the Military Spouse Thrive
“If God really valued loyalty, He would have blessed every single believer before He even considered blessing a single nonbeliever.”
“If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species.”
Source: God is Not Great
“If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.”
“If God relieved you from hardship, do not make arrogance, thank God.”
“If God requires of the sinner, dead in sin, that he should take the first step, then he requires just that which renders salvation as impossible under the gospel as it was under the law, since man is as unable to believe as he is to obey.”
Source: The Spurgeon Series 1857 & 1858: Unabridged Sermons In Modern Language
“If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.”
“If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.”
“If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.”
Source: Full Dark, No Stars
“If God’s not in it, neither is anything else.”
“If God’s not in the picture, then all I’ve got is a frame.”
“If God said, “I forgive you,” to a man who hated his brother, and if (as is impossible) that voice of forgiveness should reach the man, what would it mean to him? How would the man interpret it? Would it not mean to him, “You may go on hating. I do not mind it. You have had great provocation, and are justified in your hate”? No doubt God takes what wrong there is, and what provocation there is, into the account; but the more provocation, the more excuse that can be urged for the hate, the more reason, if possible, that the hater should be delivered from the hell of his hate, that God’s child should be made the loving child that He meant him to be. The man would think, not that God loved the sinner, but that He forgave the sin, which God never does. Every sin meets its due fate—inexorable expulsion from the paradise of God’s Humanity.”
Source: Unspoken Sermons: Series I, II, III
“If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to.”
“If God says 'This is the way you should live your life' then this is the way we should live our lives. The only road that leads to lasting joy and genuine happiness is the road that God has paved. It is a straight and narrow path. Have faith enough to stay the course.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“If God says, 'I forgive you,' you are forgiven no matter how you feel, and to refuse that forgiveness is an act of arrogance.”
“If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.”
“If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe our compulsion to wash God's hands for him is a service he doesn't appreciate. Maybe - all theodicies and nearly all theologians to the contrary - evil is where we meet God. Maybe he isn't bothered by showing up dirty for his dates with creation. Maybe - just maybe - if we ever solved the problem, we'd have talked ourselves out of a lover.”
Source: The Romance of the Word: One Man's Love Affair with Theology : Three Books
“If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.”
Source: Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart
“If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use it wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it be intolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it be heavy, murmur not. After the cross is the crown.”
“If God sends us on stony paths, He will provide us with strong shoes.”
Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture
“If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.”
“If God sets your speed limit high, don't be afraid of your life-car being crashed.”
“If GOD Shall BECOME A SAINT, The ENTIRE UNIVERSE Shall BECOME IMPOTENT”
“If God shall choose
I shall love thee but better after death”
“If God shall take a human body, he shall make a mutual girlfriend, that's the reason behind creating two major genders in all living beings”
“If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.”
Source: The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila: Volume 1
“If God showed up, He’d just give me a sad look and say, Told you so.”
“If God simply handed us everything we want, He'd be taking from us our greatest prize - the job of accomplishment”
“If God so precisely and carefully and lovingly and amazingly constructed a mind-boggling habitat for his creatures, then it would be natural for Him to want them to explore it, to measure it, to investigate it, to appreciate it, to be inspired by it - and ultimately, and most importantly, to find Him through it.”
Source: The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God
“If God spares us as a father does his son, let us imitate God. It is natural for children to imitate their parents. Let us imitate God in this one thing: As God spares us, and passes by many failures, so let us be sparing in our censures of others; let us look upon the weaknesses and indiscretions of our brethren with...a more tender, compassionate eye. How much God bears with us!”
“If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.”
Source: A Gate at the Stairs
“If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.”
“If God speaks to us even in silence, we in turn discover in silence the possibility of speaking with God and about God. “We need that silence which becomes contemplation, which introduces us into God’s silence and brings us to the point where the Word, the redeeming Word, is born” (Homily, Eucharistic Celebration with Members of the International Theological Commission, 6 October 2006). In speaking of God’s grandeur, our language will always prove inadequate and must make space for silent contemplation. Out of such contemplation springs forth, with all its inner power, the urgent sense of mission, the compelling obligation “to communicate that which we have seen and heard” so that all may be in communion with God (1 Jn 1:3). Silent contemplation immerses us in the source of that Love who directs us towards our neighbours so that we may feel their suffering and offer them the light of Christ, his message of life and his saving gift of the fullness of love.”
“If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?”
“If God spoke from Heaven, people will not understand Him, that is why Jesus came to earth”
“If God spoke the world into being, the divine language is energy; the alphabet, elementary particles; God's grammar, the laws of nature."- Daniel Matt, author of God & The Big Bang”
“If God suffers in the flesh when He is made man, should we not rejoice when we suffer, for we have God to share our sufferings? This shared suffering confers the kingdom on us. For he spoke truly who said, 'If we suffer with Him, then we shall also be glorified with Him' (Rom. 8:17).”