I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If our government has a policy, any political subdivision, that limits or restricts the enforcement of our immigration laws, we will sue them! And that suit will be $5,000 a day every day until that policy is changed! This law will be enforced.”
“If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money to protect dozens of coastal cities post-2050, once everyone knows that sea levels will keep rising and intense hurricanes will occur relentlessly?”
Source: Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do
“If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.”
Source: Ilustrado
“If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Saviour.”
“If our hands did never offer violence to our brethren, a bloody thought doth prove us murderers before him.[Cf Mt 5:21f] If we had never opened our mouths to utter any scandalous, offensive, or hurtful word, the cry of our secret cogitations is heard in the ears of God. If we did not commit the evils which we do daily and hourly, either in deeds, words, or thoughts, yet in the good things which we do how many defects are there intermingled! (A Learned Discourse on Justification, p. 8)”
“if our heart want to reach a goal it's impossible to stop it”
“If our hearts and minds are not properly transformed, we are like musicians playing untuned instruments, or engineers working with broken and ill-programmed computers. The attunement of the heart is essential to the outflow of grace...We must aim at building the structures of God's kingdom but recognized that we will only create these through the transformation of our experience. Concentration on reformation without revival leads to skins without wine; concentration on revival without reformation soon loses the wine for want of skins.”
“If our hearts are at war, we would not be able to experience Heaven in our hearts”
Source: Through The Golden Door: The Doorway to Our Advancement
“If our hearts are filled with unconditional love and true forgiveness, we are sure to experience miracles in our lives.”
Source: The Book of Love and Forgiveness
“If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.”
Source: True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
“If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.”
Source: True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
“If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.”
Source: True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
“If our hearts were truly pure, we would never have our fill of the words of your Lord”
“If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our women. For if a soldier is a wedge, a women is a needle; being, so to speak, all point, at least at the two extremities. Add to this the power of making herself practically invisible at will, and you will perceive that a female, in Flatland, is a creature by no means to be trifled with.”
Source: Flatland
“If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that's what it's all about.”
“If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“If our homes should provide anything, they should provide a sense of who we are and how we got here, a sense of connection balanced by a sense of direction and progress.”
“If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means they are being purified.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition
“If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever.”
“If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.”
Source: Sketches and Essays
“If our ideas are not evolving with verifiable evidence, they are not reliable ideas.”
Source: Two Princes And A King: A Concise Review of Three Political Assassinations
“If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.”
“If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.”
Source: Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus
“If our inner state is dependent on something changing and temporary, that inner state will be in a constant state of instability, agitation, and unrest. This means that one moment we're happy, but as soon as that which our happiness depended upon changes, our happiness also changes.”
Source: Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles
“If our intelligence is either manipulated or if it's shaded or if in some way it is exaggerated, it is very, very dangerous for us, particularly as we go down the road and look at other threats.”
“If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied! [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno Si leggesse in fronte scritto, Quanti mai, che invidia fanno, Ci farebbero pieta!].”
“If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.”
“If our kids were hungry, we'd step into slavery.”
“If our knowledge is, as I believe, only an island in an infinite sea of ignorance, how can we in our short lifetime find satisfaction in exploring our little island? How can we persuade ourselves to be exhilarated by our meager knowledge and yet not be discouraged by the ocean vistas?”
“If our knowledge of God is weak, we are left with a god who is a strange composite of truth, satanic lies, our projected desires and expectations, our experiences with our parents, and the accumulation of life’s hurts. This is not the God of the cross who loved us while we were enemies, and this composite will not sustain us.”
Source: Side by Side: Walking with Others in Wisdom and Love
“If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?”
“If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.”
Source: A Circle of Quiet
“If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.”
“If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection. The problem is, for many of the overpaid leaders, we know that they took the money and perks and didn’t offer protection to their people. In some cases, they even sacrificed their people to protect or boost their own interests. This is what so viscerally offends us. We only accuse them of greed and excess when we feel they have violated the very definition of what it means to be a leader.”
Source: Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
“If our legal counsel, Bob Rutherford, works for Satan, Satan should buy Bob a better toupee.”
Source: Scent of Darkness: Darkness Chosen
“If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College] or Cambridge [Harvard College]. The latter will return them to us as fanatics and tories, the former will keep them to add to their population.”
“If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.”
“If our life has no meaning other than our own happiness, we are likely to find that when we have obtained what we think we need to be happy, happiness itself still eludes us.”
Source: Practical Ethics
“If our life is built on God’s standards and we are responsible and zealous for the things of the kingdom, then we will have persistent success in life and wealth, which will not bring tears”
“If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.”
Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love
“If our life is poured out in useless words, we will never hear anything, never become anything, and in the end, because we have said everything before we had anything to say, we shall be left speechless at the moment of our greatest decision.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.”
“If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.”
“If our lives and our faith are centered on Jesus Christ and his restored gospel, nothing can ever go permanently wrong. On the other hand, if our lives are not centered on the Savior and his teachings, no other success can ever be permanently right.”
“If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in all its ardour and paradoxes - than our travels.”
“If our lives are easy, and if all we ever attempt for God is what we know we can handle, how will we ever experience His omnipotence in our lives?”
Source: The Vision of His Glory
“If our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right.”
“If our lives are made up of a string of a thousand moments, at some of those moments we look a lot more spiritually evolved than at others.”
“If our lives are out of tune with the music of the gospel, we must tune them up.”
“If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.”
Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art