I Quotes
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“If our young people could but glimpse it, it would be the most powerful spiritual motivation of their lives!”
“If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn—we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit!”
Source: The works of the Rev. John Newton ...: containing, an authentic narrative, etc., letters on religious subjects, cardiphonia, discourses intended for the pulpit, sermons preached in the parish church of Olney, a review of ecclesiastical history, Olney hymns, poems, Messiah, occasional sermons, and tracts, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of his life, &c. by the Rev. John Cecil
“If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq
“If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all the stronger for understanding and resolving doubt.”
“If outer doors close seem to close to you, do not hesitate. Perist in inner preparations. The inner realm of thought controls all outer action. When you get the right attitude, the outer world of results and personalities must conform to it. That is the law of mind-action.”
Source: The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity
“If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or if inner feelings bring humiliation and recognition of his dependence on that power, this crushing of the ego may open the door to grace.”
Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The religious urge. The reverential life
“If outrageous imagination is the wine of madness, then come fill my cup.”
“If outside forces and culture were the reasons behind declining and non-influential churches, we would likely have no churches today. The greatest periods of growth, particularly the first-century growth, took place in adversarial cultures. We are not hindered by external forces; we are hindered by our own lack of commitment and selflessness.”
“If owning Bitcoin is not on your “to-do list, I can give you a million reasons to add it.”
Source: One Coin. Two Coin. What Coin? Bitcoin: Crypto for Grownups Made as Easy as Child's Play
“If owning frivolous articles of excess were indeed the trappings of malevolence, my home was ready to play host to the Axis powers.”
Source: Nature's Housekeeper
“If owning stocks is a long-term project for you, following their changes constantly is a very, very bad idea. It's the worst possible thing you can do, because people are so sensitive to short-term losses. If you count your money every day, you'll be miserable.”
“If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.”
“If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods likes horses and oxen like oxen. Each would represent them with bodies according to the bodies of each. So the Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed; the Thracians give theirs red hair and blue eyes.”
“If P=NP, then the world would be a profoundly different place than we usually assume it to be. There would be no special value in “creative leaps,” no fundamental gap between solving a problem and recognizing the solution once it's found. Everyone who could appreciate a symphony would be Mozart; everyone who could follow a step-by-step argument would be Gauss; everyone who could recognize a good investment strategy would be Warren Buffett.”
“If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.”
“If pain and injustice and undeserved misery are part of the package, and God knows they are, then surely the life of Christ is God's own answer to Ecclesiasticus! Redeem the suffering. Embrace it. Make it mean something.”
Source: Children of God
“If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.”
Source: The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One
“If pain delivers sentience,
Give me all the pain of the cosmos!
If tragedy transforms animal to human,
Let all tragedy befall my shoulders!
If darkness makes the sun bright,
Let my life stay engulfed in ominosity.
Let the world know me from my triumphs,
While I know myself from my tragedies.”
Source: Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat
“If pain does not lead to growth and character, you have wasted your suffering.”
Source: Disrupt Yourself Or Be Disrupted
“If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.”
“If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.”
Source: Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
“If pain is the weight of being, love is the purpose.”
“If pain is too bad to be executed by everybody, and seen by everybody, is it not because it is too bad?”
Source: Limits to Pain: The Role of Punishment in Penal Policy
“If pain is truly love, for my family I die.”
“If pain must come may it come quickly for i have a life to live and i have to live it the best way possible.”
“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”
“If pain were water, the world would drown”
“If painters could be compared to filmmakers, Bosch is the Hype Williams of renaissance painters. With Bosch, there's always a narrative that is very nonlinear - and that's the essence of a good music video.”
“If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!”
“If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.”
Source: Guesses at Truth
“If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it.”
“If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.”
“If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.”
“If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly make emotional contact with the artists? Few centuries, it seems, are as determinedly tearless as ours.”
“If Pakistan feels Indian positions are pre-conditions, then there will be no talks.”
“If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.”
Source: Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri commemoration souvenir
“If Pakistan honors in letter and in spirit the commitment that it gave to Mr. Vajpayee in 2004, that Pakistan territory will not be used for promoting terrorist acts against India, the sky is the limit of cooperation between our two countries. Basically, we are the same people. There are ties of religion. There are ties of language. There are ties of culture.”
“If Pakistan NSA wants to come he is welcome. But talks will only be on terrorism. No scope for expansion of agenda.”
“If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)
“If Palestinian Authority refuse to join the US-run negotiations, their basis for support would collapse. They survive on donations essentially. Israel has made sure that it's not a productive economy.”
“If paparazzi armed with telephoto lenses have long been the scourge of the rich and famous; civilian drones are fast becoming the new menace to the ordinary man on the street.”
Source: Impromptu Scribe
“If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.”
Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
“If parenting was an adventure sport, it would be the most courageous sport in the world. It involves venturing into the unknown, full of unexpected twists and turns, and is completely unpredictable. It is also
thrilling and rewarding. Parenting is by far my boldest adventure. I’m not an expert, but I am a mother who loves her children and I believe in family.
Parenting is not something you do so much as who you are. You don’t “do” mothering. You don’t “do” fathering. You are a mother. You are a father. You are in the process of shaping a life and leaving a legacy.”
Source: Parenting with Courage: Shaping Lives, Leaving a Legacy
“If parenting were an adventure sport, it would be the most courageous sport in the world. It involves venturing into the unknown, full of unexpected twists and turns, and is completely unpredictable. It is also
thrilling and rewarding. Parenting is by far my boldest adventure.”
Source: Parenting with Courage: Shaping Lives, Leaving a Legacy
“If parenting were an adventure sport, it would be the most courageous sport in the world. It involves venturing into the unknown, full of unexpected twists and turns, and is completely unpredictable. It is also
thrilling and rewarding. Parenting is by far my boldest adventure. I’m not an expert, but I am a mother who loves her children and I believe in family.
Parenting is not something you do so much as who you are. You don’t “do” mothering. You don’t “do” fathering. You are a mother. You are a father. You are in the process of shaping a life and leaving a legacy.”
Source: Parenting with Courage: Shaping Lives, Leaving a Legacy
“If parents are aiming at choosing children who will be good athletes, or great musicians, or who will get into Ivy League schools, or who will be tall enough to make the basketball team, then there is a danger that the life of the child will bear the burden of that expectation; and the risk of disappointment and the cost of disappointment will be even higher than they are now, and even now they can be considerable.”
“If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.”
“If parents can instill self-control in their children, they can achieve a powerful and important effect that will benefit their offspring for years to come. Indulgent parenting and an excessive concern with maximizing children’s self-esteem may, however, be detrimental to self-control, producing instead a personality that is weak, narcissistic, and self-indulgent.”
Source: Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification
“If parents don’t want to hear the truth, children learn not to speak it.”
Source: Bound and Freed Boxed Set
“If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck. They followed the rules, and the rules had been proven to work. Celeste must therefore not be following the rules. And you could never prove it to them! They would die smug in their beds.”
Source: Big Little Lies