I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.”
“If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.”
Source: Stirner: The Ego and Its Own
“If the child is helped to be in harmony with himself and in harmony with nature, then love is simple. One will be simply loving. Love should be one of the most natural things, but it is not. Love is a source of strength. Love
gives courage. Love takes fear away.”
Source: The Call of the Heart
“If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.”
“If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health.”
“If the children acquiesce, they may learn to suppress their anger to avoid retribution. But the rage remains inside, often just below the surface.”
“If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.”
“If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given the knowledge to understand the world and the wisdom to change it, then the prospects for the future are bright. In contrast, a society which neglects its children, however well it may function in other respects, risks eventual disorganization and demise.”
Source: 2 Wrlds Childhood
“If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826
“If the Chinese business community takes the Declaration of Human Rights, core labor standards, and environmental standards seriously, the government of China will take them far more seriously, too.”
“If the Chinese commit cyberwarfare against us, they are going to see cyberwarfare like they have never seen before.”
“If the choice is between an airline flying the Boeing 737 Max and an airline that does not, I will be purchasing my ticket from the safer airline.”
“If the choice is between being a killer and being a slave, be a killer.”
Source: The Hork-Bajir Chronicles
“If the choice is between buying another building or a Pollock, I'd go for the Pollock every time.”
“If the choice is between cooking alive and wasting money unnecessarily I would rather waste some money, because long before we cook we are going to kill each other if we don't deal with climate change.”
“If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.”
“If the choice is between investment in old masters or an artwork of Raphael Perez, I'd go for the Raphael Perez every time ..”
“If the choice is between me risking my life and losing you, I’d choose the first.”
Source: The Never Tilting World
“If the choice is between two evils, it is still evil,”
“If the choice is dying from COVID-19 or surviving by wearing a hazmat suit, a gas mask and goggles to the shops, I choose the latter.”
“If the choice is given to us of liberty or security, we must scorn the latter with the proper contempt of free man and the sound judgment of wise men who know that liberty and security are not incompatible in the lives of honest men.”
“If the choice is go to war or end up with an American city hit by weapon of mass destruction, then the choice is easy.”
“If the choice is one-state, Israel can either be Jewish or Democratic. It cannot be both.”
“If the choice is the mission or coming home to you, I’m coming home.”
Source: Misinformation
“If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.”
“If the choices you make are not quality, don't put them on the top shelf.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“If the Christ we follow sent out his disciples with no extra possessions (Luke 9:1-6 and 10:1-12) and warned would-be devotees that he had nowhere to lay his head (see Luke 9:57-62), then we must recognize that it is extremely difficult to live in a Christian way in a consumer culture.”
Source: A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World
“If the Christian church is to move responsibly towards the future, it must restore or renew its ties with its past. Contemporary Catholic and Protestant radicals want to claim that Christianity means whatever Christian today happen to believe and practice, be it pantheism, unitarianism, or sodomy. The Christian faith has suffered immeasurable harm because of the tendency of people to use the word Christian in a careless and non-historical way. Nothing in this argument would preclude liberal Protestants and Catholics from developing and practicing any religion they like.”
“If the Christian doesn't get reality right, he loses effectiveness in this life. If the non-Christian doesn't get reality right, he loses much in this life, and everything and the next one. As Jesus put it, "What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?"”
“If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.”
“If the Christian religion, as I understand it, or as you understand it, should maintain its ground, as I believe it will, yet Platonic, Pythagoric, Hindoo, and cabalistical Christianity, which is Catholic Christianity, and which has prevailed for 1500 years, has received a mortal wound, of which the monster must finally die. Yet so strong is his constitution, that he may endure for centuries before he expires.”
“If the Christian wants everything clear and certain, then he or she will find nothing.”
Source: Hope: The Autobiography
“If the Christians continue to desert Jesus Christ in His temple, will not the Heavenly Father take away from them His well-beloved Son Whom they neglect?”
“If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.”
Source: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1891-1910
“If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.”
“If the Chrysalis Conjecture is correct, we are alone in our dimensional cocoon-universe, simulated in Absolute Consciousness, but not alone in the Multiverse.”
Source: The Syntellect Hypothesis: Five Paradigms of the Mind's Evolution
“If the church could catch a vision for using video technology to present an authentic presentation of the life of the church - not rehearsed videos, but spontaneous records of conversations, laughing with one another, weeping with one another, people sharing their lives, etc. - the average person might take notice.”
“If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.”
“If the Church ever succeeds in doing that big thing, that great thing, that unspeakable thing that God purposes that we should do, it can only be when we enter into that Divine compassion of the Son of God.”
“If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at all. And if we accept the argument of the hypocrites of homosexuality that their sin is not a sin, we have destroyed ourselves.”
“If the Church is 'in Christ,' she is involved in mission. Her whole existence then has a missionary character. Her conduct as well as her words will convince the unbelievers and put their ignorance and stupidity to silence.”
Source: Witness To The World: The Christian Mission in Theological Perspective
“If the Church is a body, and the body is a business, isn't that the same thing as prostitution?”
“If the Church is a living body united to the same head, governed by the same laws, and pervaded by the same Spirit, it is impossible that one part should be independent of all the rest.”
Source: What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855
“If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need to quit being selfish and become relevant.”
“If the Church is in Christ, its initial act is always the act of thanksgiving, of returning the world to God.”
Source: For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy
“If the Church is indeed the Bride of Christ, then a Christian who loves hating other Christians is like a wife who hates loving her family.”
“If the Church is not Making Disciples, then all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible, are a waste of time.”
“If the Church is not now as bad as the Soviet Government, that is due to the influence of those who attacked the Church”
Source: Man's Peril, 1954-55
“If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.”
“If the church is to be missionary, she must be spiritual; and if the church is to be spiritual, she must be missionary.”
Source: The Acts of the Apostles