I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If God takes away from us the old, wrinkled, beat-up dollar bill we have clutched so desperately, it is only because He wants to exchange it for the whole Federal mint, the entire treasury! He is saying to us, 'I have in store for you all the resources of heaven. Help yourself.'”
“If God tells us to do a thing we are to do it; if He tells us to believe a thing, we are to believe it; we are to have faith in God. Have faith in God, and if God tells you to believe a thing believe it, and then you will have peace and confidence and joy.”
“If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?”
“If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.”
“If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings--then we may take it it is worth paying.”
Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics
“If God thought it necessary to offer rewards for love, your God must be immoral.”
Source: Demons
“If God to you is where science has yet to tread, then God is an ever-receding pocket.”
“If God told Rick Perry, Michelle Bachmann, and Herman Cain to run for president, then God obviously wants Barack Obama to win.”
“If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.”
“If God wanted a world filled with saints, He never would have created adolescence.”
Source: The Life As We Knew It Collection
“If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball.”
“If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.”
“If God wanted me to be quiet he would’ve never showed me what he does.”
“If God wanted me to marry poor he would have made me homely.”
“If god wanted people to believe in him, why'd he invent logic then?”
“If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.”
“If God wanted the woods to be quiet, He would not have given birds songs to sing.”
“If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way of waiting for 10 billion years before life got started and then waiting for another 4 billion years until you got human beings capable of worshipping and sinning and all the other things religious people are interested in.”
“If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations of Jews to pogroms and persecution as 'Christ-killers': did that hereditary sin pass down in the semen too?”
Source: The God Delusion
“If God wanted us high, He would have given us wings.”
“If God wanted us to accept gays, he'd have made us compassionate”
“If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.”
“If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men.”
“If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?”
“If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.”
“If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.”
“If God wanted women to be treated equally to men, he'd have given them penises.”
“If God wanted you to putt cross-handed, he would have made your left arm longer.”
“If God wants it, it will happen.”
Source: Have a Little Faith: A True Story
“If God wants something done, can it be done? I am personally convinced that no goal God has for my life is impossible, uncertain, nor can it be blocked.”
Source: Victory Over the Darkness: Realize the Power of Your Identity in Christ
“If God wants something from me, he would tell me. He wouldn't leave someone else to do this, as if an infinite being were short on time. And he would certainly not leave fallible, sinful humans to deliver an endless plethora of confused and contradictory messages. God would deliver the message himself, directly, to each and every one of us, and with such clarity as the most brilliant being in the universe could accomplish. We would all hear him out and shout "Eureka!" So obvious and well-demonstrated would his message be. It would be spoken to each of us in exactly those terms we would understand. And we would all agree on what that message was.”
Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith
“If God wants to move me, then I go! Yes, I am scared. Yes, I doubt. Yes, I am afraid things will crumble around me. Yes, I know this will be tough and this stress will sometimes seem unbearable. Yes, I know life will never be the same. But God wants to use ME! I am not saying no. I have my call. I must go!”
Source: This Is My Heaven
“If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.”
Source: The Essential Samuel Butler
“If God wants us to pray without ceasing, it is because He wants to answer without ceasing!”
“If God was dead, how could I feel this bad?”
“If God was giving me a ham, I'd be crazy not to receive it. Maybe it was the ham of God, who takes away the sins of the world.”
Source: Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
“If God was male and woman was not male, then whatever God was, woman was not.”
Source: Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women's History of the World
“If God was small enough for you to completely understand him, he wouldn't be big enough for you to completely trust him.”
“If God was the owner, I was the manager. I needed to adopt a steward's mentality toward the assets He had entrusted - not given - to me. A steward manages assets for the owner's benefit. The steward carries no sense of entitlement to the assets he manages. It's his job to find out what the owner wants done with his assets, then carry out his will.”
Source: The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving
“If God was willing to wrap himself in rags and drink from a mother's breast, then all questions about his love for us are off the table.”
“If God watches over a little sparrow, you know, if he takes care of the birds, a little sparrow. Here I am, one of his children, you know, he got so many of us down here. Human beings that send our faith up and believe. And if he watch over a sparrow, I know he watches over me.”
“If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.”
“If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh?”
Source: Reservation Blues
“If God were like a Star Wars Force linking all consciousness, I supposed I could maybe believe that. But let's just say I'm not going to be running off to India to join an ashram anytime soon.”
“If God were mortal and had but one life to give, he would have been more careful about how he created the world.”
“If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.”
Source: The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson containing two hundred sermons and discourses, on several occasions ...
“If God were not just, there would be no demand for his Son to suffer and die. And if God were not loving, there would be no willingness for his Son to suffer and die. But God is both just and loving. Therefore his love is willing to meet the demands of his justice.”
Source: For Your Joy
“If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy.”
Source: A Mute Christian Under the Rod & Apples of Gold
“If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)