I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If our lives are truly plans of God, someone had better call a meeting soon to remind us, once more, what great miracles we really are.”
“If our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all”
Source: Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
“If our lives were to be defined by inaccessibility, we could recontextualize that definition as a choice. A distaste for the interests of those who could afford to have interests. Art, which had never been truly democratic to begin with, was now an
unattainable interest.”
Source: Immaculate Conception
“If our logic is to find the common world intelligible, it must not be hostile, but must be inspired by a genuine acceptance such as is not usually to be found among metaphysicians.”
“If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.”
Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“If our Lord ascends up to Heaven, ascend with Him. Be one of those angels who escort Him, or one of those who receive Him. Bid the gates be lifted up (cf. Ps. 24:7, 10), or be made higher, that they may receive Him, exalted after His Passion. Answer to those who are in doubt because He bears up with Him His body and the tokens of His Passion, which He had not when He came down, and who therefore inquire, 'Who is this King of Glory?' that it is the Lord strong and mighty, as in all things that He has done from time to time and does, so now in His battle and triumph for the sake of Mankind.”
“If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.”
Source: The Irrational Season
“If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.”
Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life
“If our love isn't written in the stars,
Why the very moment we truly locked eyes for the first time does one fly straight by.
There's something to be said about twinsouls and meeting eye to eye, the soul ignites its fire for the very first time.”
“If our love of God does not directly influence, and even change, how we engage in the issues of our time on this earth, I wonder what good religion is.”
“If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord.”
Source: Hymns Selected from Frederick William Faber
“If our memory is a compass rather than an anchor of the past, we can reinterpret our history in light of the present. By living in forward motion, we can select wisdom from our experience, without being haunted by it. When we identify what we are leaving behind and why we do so, we can leave mental chaos and go forward with confidence. (“Never looking back again”)”
“If our mind is in conflict, not balanced with our body and with the needs of the soul, then there is a fundamental disunity in our life. Only if we have unity within ourselves, we can create unity in the world around us. You can't give something you don't have, even if you have all good intentions”
“If our mind is pure, our desires get manifested quickly.”
“If our mind, regardless of being limited, is viewed in the context of reality or existence, then we can assume one existence consisting of all other existences and consider it as one reality of which, most likely, as our experience shows, most parts will not have the complete grasp of its totality. Nevertheless, they will still be able to participate in it, with a larger or smaller amount of knowledge coming from experience (with or without the help of language).”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“If our mind remains freeze-framed by inhibiting and hampering habits, in an ever-changing world, we won’t be able to get rid of that weird feeling of not belonging anywhere and not taking part in authentic life challenges. ("Not on the shortlist")”
“If our minds and hearts are into it, we can be a heck of a team. We can beat anybody.”
“If our minds are stayed upon God, His peace will rule the affairs entertained by our minds. If, on the other hand, we allow our minds to dwell on the cares of this world, God's peace will be far from our thoughts.”
“If our mission is grand & our vision is glorious, we need great values that match our ambition or else, we toil in vain...”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“If our mushrooms make you hallucinate, please inform us immediately so we can overcharge you.”
“If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.”
“If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won't have peace. We are currently borrowing the entire defense budget from foreign investors. Within a few years, we will be spending more on interest payments than on national security. That is not, as our military friends say, a 'robust strategy.'”
“If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within.”
“If our native country had become lawless, then surely, nothing was ‘wrong’ or ‘corrupt’ about us seeking refuge or citizenship in another country. At least we deserved the right to try.”
Source: Good Morning, Hope: A True Story of Refugee Twin Sisters and Their Triumph over War, Poverty, and Heartbreak
“If our next president is a woman, it will be Hilary Clinton and our country will be all the better for it.”
“If our only agenda is to prove our point, based on what we think we know, it makes more sense to talk to ourselves.”
Source: My Name Is Love: We're Not All That Different
“If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“If our pain doesn't destroy us, it just might transform us into truly human beings at last.”
“If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent.”
“If our Party propaganda for some reason or other goes lame, if the Marxist-Leninist training of our cadres begins to languish, if our work of raising the political and theoretical level of these cadres flags, and the cadres themselves cease on account of this to show interest in the prospect of our further progress, cease to understand the truth of our cause and are transformed into narrow plodders with no outlook, blindly and mechanically carrying out instructions from above - then our entire state and Party work must inevitably languish.”
Source: Report to the Eighteenth Congress of the C.P.S.U.(B.) on the work of the Central Committee, March 10, 1939
“If our passion is not in constant rebellion against the limitations of our humanity it is not passion.”
“If our path calls for turbulence and hardships, know you will never be untouched by miracles. Only warriors can handle war, everyone can garden.”
“If our perfect Lord is gracious enough to take our worst, and ugliest, our most boring, our least successful, and forgive them, burying them in the depths of the sea, then it's high time we give each other a break.”
Source: Encourage Me
“If our personal lives need marketing, how can we even think that our business can go on without it?”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?”
“If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his or her own repertory of gestures. Arithmetically, it is simply impossible. Without the slightest doubt, there are far fewer gestures in the world than there are individuals. That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion: a gesture is more individual than an individual. We could put it in the form of an aphorism: many people, few gestures.”
“If our poor die of hunger, it is not because God does not care for them. Rather, it is because neither you nor I are generous enough. It is because we are not instruments of love in the hands of God. We do not recognize Christ when once again He appears to us in the hungry man, in the lonely woman, in the child who is looking for a place to get warm.”
“If our prayer is “Dear God, please use me to be of service,” then that is what we will be. And it is not for us to judge either the size or value of our gifts. Our job is to try to get out of the way, to defer to the spirit moving within us and become open channels for the flow of God’s love.”
Source: Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships
“If our presidents, or potential presidents, don't know this or don't articulate [an America ideal], that's a blown opportunity. The president can teach as well as lead.”
“If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their authors substitute the fundamental concepts of any particular science for those of metaphysics.”
“If our primate relatives can teach us one thing about play, it’s this: play is primal.”
Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction
“If our principal treasure be as we profess, in things spiritual and heavenly, and woe unto us if it be not so! on them will our affections, and consequently our desires and thoughts, be principally fixed.”
Source: Treatise on Temptation, Or, The Dominion of Sin and Grace: And on the Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded
“If our principles are right, why should we be cowards?”
“If our public school system is a truly democratic institution. It's the place where we can reach every child in this county from kindergarten. What an opportunity to edibly educate them. I don't just mean a glorified cooking class. I've never thought of it that way. I have always thought of it as a way to empower students to learn, to give them confidence, and to nourish them. So, I think the centerpiece has to be a free, sustainable school lunch for every child.”
“If our reading of the Bible focuses our eyes on anyone other than God, we have gotten backwards the transformation process.
(ch. 1)”
Source: Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds
“If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.”
“If our repentance is not whole-hearted, if we are doing it feignedly, like Jeremiah's generation did, then our repentance will not hold back the wrath of God from our nation, any more than the half-hearted repentance of Judah did in the days of Jeremiah and Josiah.”
“If our reputation rests on the decisions we make, then Abishag has impeccable taste. If fragrance is worn to make a personal statement, then the unchosen Abishag has publicly proclaimed her allegiance. She has put on the scent of her lord, for her lord. She belongs to him. Every facet of her character proclaims rejection of other, so-called, 'shepherds.' Whether he chooses her, or not, she has chosen him.”
Source: Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters
“If our rocks, our homes, our streets are our heritage... our Pol is our heritage, then the lifestyle that has emerged over time...that also is our heritage and that itself...is our soul. And it is this soul that connects us.”
“If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future.”