I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If our bodies are sick, we seek to heal them. We do not give up. The same thing should be true of our marriages.”
“If our bodies aren't being taken care of then our work starts to suffer and we're not getting the most from our daily lives.”
“If our bodies didn’t come equipped with these erogenous zones, these areas of ecstatic pleasure, we might not have the desire, nor the attraction, to engage in these intimate acts. Acts of carnal knowledge.”
Source: God, Sex & Psychosis
“If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that it’s condition has everything to do with inner image and nothing to do with time, then we don’t have to be impatient for being too young or frightened of being too old.”
“If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.”
“If our brain is understanding some parts of the universe and not understanding other parts, and those understandings are about the laws of physics that our brains are built on top of, then it's kind of a loop, right?”
“If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.”
Source: The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World
“If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.”
Source: Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain
“If our brands are going to be in print and on mobile handsets and in video and events, we have to acknowledge that the playing fields are going to be different than a print-only product or a print product with extensions to it.”
“If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.”
“If our characteristic selves are not changing in response to new experience, it is because we have stopped learning and growing. We have stopped living.”
Source: Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives
“If our cherished rubrics are in any way threatened, we immediately rise up and bring the whole our ourselves to bear in a rigorous defense of them. And might it be that what we’ve errantly defined as a ‘threat’ is in fact an act of liberation that we didn’t see as such simply because (unbeknownst to us) our rubrics have become our own asphyxiating prisons and we’ve become our own wardens. Hence, let us dare not confuse the rescue mission that we call Christmas with anything less than what it is.”
“If our children are going to walk away from Christ, we need to raise them in such a way that they understand that to walk away from Jesus is to walk away from a life of faith, risk and adventure and to choose a life that boring, mundane and ordinary”
“If our children are healthy, they'll develop into their full potential and become wonderful tax-paying citizens sometime.”
“If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.”
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in America’s alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart — and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.”
“If our children have the background of a godly, happy home and this unshakable faith that the Bible is indeed the Word of God, they will have a foundation that the forces of hell cannot shake.”
“If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; and not just a casual regard, a delicate regard. On this point we were adamant.”
Source: Gold Cord: The Story of a Fellowship
“If our Christianity doesn’t work at home, it doesn’t work.”
“If our Christianity has ceased to be serious about discipleship, if we have watered down the gospel into emotional uplift which makes no costly demands and which fails to distinguish between natural and Christian existence, then we cannot help regarding the cross as an ordinary everyday calamity, as one of the trials and tribulations of life. We have then forgotten that the cross means rejection and shame as well as suffering .”
“If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.”
“If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances.”
Source: Thoughts for the Quiet Hour
“If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.”
“If our commanders on the ground say we need more troops, I will send them. But our commanders tell me they have the number of troops they need to do their job. Sending more Americans would undermine our strategy of encouraging Iraqis to take the lead in this fight. And sending more Americans would suggest that we intend to stay forever, when we are, in fact, working for the day when Iraq can defend itself and we can leave.”
“If our commitment to an agenda is so passionate that we will rewrite the history that does not support it, we have become a blind slave to a rogue agenda that will destroy us in the service of it.”
“If our company is to survive and prosper, over the long term we must get our share of the youth market.”
“If our computer is not safe then we are also not safe mentally and socially. Let's secure our computers to be safe.”
“If our condition were truly happy, we would not need diversion from thinking of it in order to make ourselves happy.”
“If our constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded: "But the greatest of these is speech." In the darkness of tyranny, this is the key to the sunlight. If it is granted, all doors open. If it is withheld, none.”
Source: Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy
“If our core belief is based on what other people think, then we eventually will allow their opinions to become our reality.”
“If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.”
Source: Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
“If our country has to reach its economic goals, it cannot happen with half its population shut behind doors.”
“If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.”
“If our country is to survive and prosper, we must summon the courage to condemn and reject the liberal agenda, and we had better do it soon.”
Source: More Liberty Means Less Government: Our Founders Knew This Well
“If our country's choice is to be a Great Power, Russia will be the great power not because of the nuclear potential, not because of faith in God or president, or western investments but thanks to the labor of the nation, faith in Knowledge and Science and thanks to the maintenance and development of scientific potential and education.”
“If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.”
Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private
“If our courts lose their authority and their rulings are no longer respected, there will be no one left to resolve the divisive issues that can rip the social fabric apart ... The courts are a safety valve without which no democratic society can survive.”
“If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world?”
“If our credit be so well built, so firm, that it is not easy to be shaken by calumny or insinuation, envy then commends us, and extols us beyond reason to those upon whom we depend, till they grow jealous, and so blow us up when they cannot throw us down.”
“If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill.”
Source: How Now Shall We Live?
“If our deepest desires cannot be satisfied in this world, then we must have been made for another world.”
“If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We must somehow find a way to make our designs resilient to such changes and protect them from rotting.”
“If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built.”
“If our desire for justice is not rooted primarily in the pursuit of restoration, then reconciliation will be nearly impossible to achieve. It is precisely because grace is undeserved that makes it grace.”
“If our desire is to enjoy and perhaps eventually transcend the Matrix, we must select with great circumspection the thoughts we wish to energize and direct our focus only toward that which invigorates and empowers us. Anything else simply isn’t … worth your attention.”
Source: Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality
“If our destiny stems from our name, then I weep for the flower named Wilt.”
Source: There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't
“If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.”
“If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they'd wake us up to the urgency of our times.”
“If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.”
Source: The Analysis of Sensations, and the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical
“If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.”
Source: Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't