I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.”
“If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty”
“If God were only mighty, we would Salute Him. But since he is Merciful and Mighty, we can approach Him.”
“If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.”
“If “God” were real, we all know what he would really have said: “Let There Be Mathematics!”
Source: The Mathematical Universe
“If God were small enough to be understood, He would not be big enough to be worshipped.”
“If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.”
“If God were to appear in my room, obviously I would be in awe, but I don't think I would be humble. I might cry, but I think he would dig me like crazy.”
“If God were to eradicate all evil from this planet, He would have to eradicate all evil men. Who would be exempt? “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” [Romans 3:23 NIV].
God would rather transform the evil man than eradicate him.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and misery for no reason than his own despicable enjoyment. God exists though, not for all humanity, but for a one chosen man - a philosopher - who is bound to answer the greatest philosophical question, the question about the nature of the questioner's existence, which progressively quenches the divine vanity.”
“If God were to make a million lovely flowers in your image and plant them in a garden with you among them, I would still know you by your scent and by the feel of your petals and by the crazy way you lean towards my light whenever I draw near.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.”
Source: Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions
“If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.
Let me explain what I mean by this. If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.
Let's take this a step further. Robots do not love. God created us with the capacity to love. Love is based upon one's right to choose to love. We cannot force others to love us. We can make them serve us or obey us. But true love is founded upon one's freedom to choose to respond.”
Source: Hope for Each Day: Words of Wisdom and Faith
“If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing.”
Source: What Luther says: an anthology
“If God wills that I die, then I die. No power on earth can change that.”
Source: A Voice in the Wind
“If God wills the evangelization of the world, and you refuse to support missions, then you are opposed to the will of God.”
“If God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us.”
“If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.”
“If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the terrible torment of having to bear the world in its reality. It is a crux; indeed, He Himself is His own cross. The world is God's suffering, and every individual human being who wishes even to approach his own wholeness knows very well that this means bearing his own cross. But the eternal promise for him who bears his own cross is the Paraclete.”
“If God wishes you to live, live well.”
“If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are.”
“If God would grant us the vision, the word sacrifice would disappear from our lips and thoughts; we would hate the things that seem now so dear to us; our lives would suddenly be too short, we would despise time-robbing distractions and charge the enemy with all our energies in the name of Christ. May God help us ourselves by the eternities that separate the Aucas from a Comprehension of Christmas and Him, who, though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor so that we might, through his poverty, be made rich.”
“If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.”
“If God's got a favorite songwriter, I think it's John Prine.”
“If God's in me, he's a tumor.”
“If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.”
“If God's love is for anybody anywhere, it's for everybody everywhere.”
“If God's people are to be living examples of one thing, that thing ought to be - it must be - compassion.”
Source: Start Where You Are
“If God's people hunger deeply enough, God will hear and send revival. God requires more than casual prayers for revival. He wants His people to hunger and thirst for His mighty working. To seek God's face is far more than occasionally mentioning revival in our prayer. It involves repeated and prolonged prayer. It requires holy determination in prayer, examining ourselves to see if anything in our lives is hindering God.”
“If God's Word is not absolutely and completely true, it is too weak a cable to fix our anchorage and guarantee our eternal peace.”
Source: The Supernatural: Making Room for the Power of God
“If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.”
Source: The Best of I.F. Stone
“If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.”
“If God, in the Christmas mystery, reveals himself not as One who remains on high and dominates the universe, but as the One who bends down, descends to the little and poor earth, it means that, to be like him, we should not put ourselves above others, but indeed lower ourselves, place ourselves at the service of others, become small with the small and poor with the poor. It is regrettable to see a Christian who does not want to lower himself, who does not want to serve. A Christian who struts about is ugly: this is not Christian, it is pagan.”
“If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The will of God, we can rest assured, is invariably a better thing.”
Source: God's Guidance: Finding His Will for Your Life
“If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.”
“If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.”
Source: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
“If gold knew what gold is, gold would get gold I wis.”
Source: The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum
“If gold must be gold, it must pass through the furnace.”
“If gold ruste, what shall iren do?”
“If gold rusts, what then can iron do?”
“If gold was as plentiful as sand, it would not be as valuable.”
“If golf wasn't enjoyable and there wasn't a lot of humor and enjoyment, even though the game is so frustrating, you would wonder why you put yourself through it.”
“If golfers can run around and crow when they make a birdie, I think it would be just as proper to lie down on the green and cry when you make a bogey.”
“If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.”
“If Good approved of his creature's creation, He breathed the painted clay-model into life by signing His name.”
Source: The pillow book
“If good communication was easy to overcome, most companies would exceed annual targets.”
Source: I communicate, Therefore, I sell: “Communication is the most stable currency because it never loses its value.”
“If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.”
“If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.”
“If good people won’t do the hard things, evil people will always win, because evil people will do anything.”
Source: Twilight Falling
“If good people would but make goodness agreeable, and smile instead of frowning in their virtue, how many they would win to the good cause.”