I Quotes
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“If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.”
“If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world's people enhanced - not just in this generation but in succeeding generations - we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.”
“If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.”
Source: The Lessons of History
“If our education had included training to bear unpleasantness and to let the first shock pass until we could think more calmly, many an apparently unbearable situation would become manageable, and many a nervous illness avoided. There is proverb expressing this. It says, trouble is a tunnel thorough which we pass and not a brick wall against which we must break our head.”
“If our effort to know God more clearly is not an effort to love him more dearly, it will be fatal.”
Source: Does God Desire All to Be Saved?
“If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.”
“If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high; but we must remember that men are not angels.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God.”
“If our entertainment culture seems debased and unsatisfying, the hope is that our children will create something of greater worth.But it is as if we expect them to create out of nothing, like God, for the encouragement of creativity is in the popular mind, opposed to instruction. There is little sense that creativity must grow out of tradition, even when it is critical of that tradition, and children are scarcely being given the materials on which their creativity could work”
“If our entire Universe is smaller than the Planck length before the Big Bang, that is proof enough for me that it is immaterial and powered by the original immaterial Universal Source (the Universal Spirit). This is the point of appearance and disappearance.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“If our ethical code makes a purely arbitrary distinction between humans and all other species, then we have a code based on naked selfishness devoid of any higher principle.”
Source: The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
“If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time you fall.”
Source: Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom
“If our failure to consistently worship the true God is the key feature of sin, we are sinners all.”
“If our faith can live without God, it is not divinely created. If God had begotten it, it would wait upon Him as the flowers wait upon the dew.”
Source: Evening by Evening
“If our faith delivers us from worry, then worry is an insult flung in the face of God.”
“If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps and material good.”
“If our Fall was our re-cognition, our re-knowing of the good as evil, then our Reconciliation is our re-cognition in Christ - our re-knowing in the risen humanity of the Word - of evil as the good he has made it once more.”
Source: Between Noon & Three: Romance, Law & the Outrage of Grace
“If our family was an airline, Mom was the hub and we were the spokes. You rarely went anywhere nonstop; you went via Mom, who directed the traffic flow and determined the priorities: which family member was cleared for takeoff or landing. Even my father was not immune to Mom's scheduling, though he was given more leeway than the rest of us.”
Source: The End of Your Life Book Club
“If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant that we ran rather than loitered. Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty.”
Source: A Story Teller's Story
“If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant we ran rather than loitered.”
Source: A Story Teller's Story: The Tale of an American Writer's Journey Through His Own Imaginative World and Through the World of Facts, with Many of His Experiences and Impressions Among Other Writers--told in Many Notes--in Four Books--and an Epilogue
“If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.”
Source: A River Runs Through It
“If our fathers, in 1776, had acknowledged the principle that a majority had the right to rule the minority, we should never have become a nation; for they were in a small minority, as compared with those who claimed the right to rule over them.”
Source: No Treason: No. 1-
“If our feelings clash with our perceptions and we cannot breathe anymore, below the leaden sky of a harsh reality, we have to kill the dormant virus of lassitude, punch the air and propel us on a new course, taking back a genuine interest in the world, and create an open space to overcome the impairment of emotional thinking. -( "No monsters hide at this point" )”
“If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Personal Workbook
“If our field is "to advance", we must - without displacing creativity and aesthetics - make sure our terminology is clear.”
“If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.”
“If our focus is on how we are supposed to feel then we deny ourselves the joy of freedom in how we truly feel.”
Source: The Lovely Knowing
“If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.”
“If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.”
“If our free society is to endure, and I know it will, those who govern must recognize that the Framers of the Constitution limited their power in order to preserve human dignity and the air of freedom which is our proudest heritage.”
“If our free society is to endure, those who govern must recognize human dignity and accept the enforcement of constitutional limitations on their power conceived by the Framers . . . . Such recognition will not come from a technical understanding of the organs of government, or the new forms of wealth they administer. It requires something different, something deeper-a personal confrontation with the wellsprings of our society.”
“If our freedom is taken, the American dream will wither and die.”
“If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.”
Source: Memoirs and Letters
“If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?”
“If our future generations were much wilier than us,
then it might be them who have led us all this time,
to make decisions which fit to their pre-existence,
left us live in the world of uncertainty or by faith.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“If our generation has been told for decades that we have so much freedom, so many choices, such opportunities, the question women with young children face is: how free are we to reach for the stars in midlife if we have someone else depending on us? Especially when our concept of good parenting involves so much more brain space and such higher costs than it did for our mothers and grandmothers? And when we expect ourselves to be excellent, highly engaged parents while also being excellent, highly engaged employees?”
Source: Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis
“If our goal in legislating against carbon releases is not simply punishing the West and its power companies but truly trying to reduce the accumulation of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, the main event will be in the developing world. We must use the smartest possible economics, and that means investing in China and India.”
“If our goal is not to "succeed" or avoid failure or mistakes, but to learn something, we will never fail.”
“If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, Chase, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.”
Source: Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed
“If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.”
Source: Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life
“If our goal is to discover the easy way, there’s a really good chance that we will stumble upon the wrong way, which is anything but an easy way.”
“If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality.”
“If our goal is to understand the world, to seek a deeper understanding of the world, our general lack of moral diversity here is going to make it harder. Because when people all share values, when people all share morals, they become a team.”
“If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.”
Source: Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected
“If our goalies were in a divorce case, they could sue for lack of support and be millionaires tomorrow.”
“If our goals and strategies are not deeply steeped in nourishing our human hearts and minds, they are neither wholesome nor strategic.”
Source: Collapse: Navigating Civilization's Predicaments With Wisdom and Courage
“If our god's work is to be done in our time, we must do it ourselves.”
Source: Rise of Endymion
“If our Gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena, then let us admit it must be said that our love is scientific as well.”
“If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought.”
Source: Hearing God Through the Year: A 365-Day Devotional