I Quotes
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“If the church is to impress the world with the deathless hope of the everlasting Gospel, she must be animated by that hope herself.”
“If the church is to survive as a place where head and heart are equal partners in faith, then we will need to commit ourselves once again not to the worship of Christ, but to the imitation of Jesus. His invitation was not to believe, but to follow. (p. 145)”
Source: Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus
“If the church is what it should be, young people will be there. But they will not just 'be there' - they will be there with the blowing of horns and the clashing of high-sounding cymbals, and they will come dancing with flowers in their hair.”
“If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.”
“If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish”
“If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.”
Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“If the Church were not true, our enemies would be bored rather than threatened, and acquiescent rather than anxious. Hell is moved only when things move heavenward.”
“If the Church would have her face shine, she must go up into the mount, and be alone with God. If she would have her courts of worship resound with eucharistic praises, she must open her eyes, and see humanity lying lame at the temple gates, and heal it in the miraculous name of Jesus.”
“If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.”
“If the churches don't move, much of the community won't move. We've got a situation in which a black church is still a major institution in the black community where 55 percent of the black folk attend and over 75 pass through its doors.”
“If the churches ever did reunite, it would have to be into something that was as sacramental and liturgical and authoritative as the Roman Catholic Church and as protesting against abuses and as much focused on the individual in his direct relationship with Christ as the Evangelicals, as charismatic as the Pentecostals, as missionary-minded as the old mainline denominations, as focused on holiness as the Methodists or the Quakers, as committed to the social aspects of the Gospel as the social activists, as Biblical as fundamentalists, and as mystical as the Eastern Orthodox.”
“If the CIA is going to disrupt future terrorist attacks, it needs to recruit spies to infiltrate those groups in order to disrupt the terrorist attacks. Not to rely on what you and I are putting in chat messages on Google or Apple.”
“If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?”
Source: Brain Droppings
“If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . . If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.”
Source: Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families
“If the citizens themselves devote their life to matters of trade, the way will be opened to many vices. Since the foremost tendency of tradesmen is to make money, greed is awakened in the hearts of the citizens through the pursuit of trade. The result is that everything in the city will bcome venal; good faith will be destroyed and the way opened to all kinds of trickery; each one will work only for his own profit, despising the public good; the cultivation of virtue will fail since honor, virtue's reward, will be bestowed upon the rich. Thus, in such a city, civic life will necessarily be corrupted. (On Kingship II, 3)”
“If the civil magistrate be a Christian, a disciple or follower of the meek Lamb of God, he is bound to be far from destroying the bodies of men for refusing to receive the Lord Jesus Christ: for otherwise he would be ignorant of the sweet end of Christ's coming, which was to save the bodies and souls of men.”
“If the clan did not exact punishment for an offense against the great goddess, her wrath was loosed on all the land and not just on the offender. As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled all the others.”
Source: Things Fall Apart
“If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro”
“If the climate were a bank, they would already have saved it.”
“If the clinician, as observer, wishes to see things as they really are, he must make a tabula rasa of his mind and proceed without any preconceived notions whatever.”
“If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.”
“If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.”
Source: The Diamond Age
“If the code does indeed have some logical foundation then it is legitimate to consider all the evidence, both good and bad, in any attempt to deduce it.”
“If the colander is perforated, then the hole filled vessel is irrelevant".
~R. Alan Woods [2012]”
Source: The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal
“If the collective life which results from our individual money-making is not richer, more interesting and more stimulating than that of countries where the individual effort is less intense, then it looks as if there were something wrong about our method.”
Source: French Ways and Their Meaning
“If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.”
“If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.”
“If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“If the colored population of earth today mounted an uproar against the white colonizers, there wouldn't be any trace left of Europe and North America. Yet the thought never crossed our minds - you know why! Because vengeance is not in our nature, let alone invade other people's home and call it march of civilization. And if we the colored descendants of colored ancestors can choose not to hold you responsible for the atrocities of your white moronic ancestors, despite being subjected to the same kind of discrimination till this day, couldn't you at least foster the basic human dignity to recognize those atrocities of the past and do your best to make sure that they are never repeated again! Once and for all, couldn't we be human beings before we are colored and caucasians!”
Source: World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets
“If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way”
Source: Piddly Poems for Children: Volume 1
“If the combination of mindless, profit-seeking algorithms, dedicated geopolitical adversaries, and corrupt US opportunists over the past few years has taught us anything, it is that serious applied thinking is a form of critical infrastructure. The best hackers are masters of applied thinking, and we cannot afford to ignore them.”
Source: Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World
“If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving.”
Source: Collected Works
“If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the result of their enquiries; or, in other words, that they will lay down, or at least suggest, "rules" and "conditions to be (hereafter) observed" in the construction of bridges, or, in other words, embarrass and shackle the progress of improvement to-morrow by recording and registering as law the prejudices or errors of to-day. [Objecting to any interference by the State with the freedom of civil engineers in the conduct of their professional work.]”
“If the common man in the past had a grave respect for property, it may conceivably have been because he sometimes had some of his own.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.”
“If the communications media are a good destined for all humanity, then ever-new means must be found - including recourse to opportune legislative measures - to make possible a true participation in their management by all. The culture of co-responsibility must be nurtured.”
“If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope.”
Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
“If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.”
“If the community wish to have the benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the labouring classes, it must dispense it at the public charge.”
Source: A Treatise on Political Economy: Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth
“If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.”
“If the company is going to thrive financially, then the board must ensure the company has adequate risk mitigation strategies in place.”
Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
“If the company is going to thrive financially, then the board must inquire about the effectiveness of financial controls and risk management practices.”
Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
“If the company is going to thrive financially, then the board must understand the relationship between different financial metrics and how they impact overall financial performance.”
Source: Board Room Blitz: Mastering the Art of Corporate Governance
“If the Company takes my advice, it will always be preserved through this maxim, for if we are good, we will not lack any, and if we are not, we already have too many houses anyway, and can hardly fill the few we have.”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents
“If the compass that I hold in my hand is driven by the agendas that I craft in my head, that compass is something more like a windmill erected in a place where the wind never stops blowing.”
“If the components of the body were organs and veins and cells, then the components of thought and language were words and grammar.”
Source: The Dumb House
“If the compulsive gambler desperately wants to keep gambling, and they are cut off from their own funds, they may resort to more drastic means. The options then become pawn shops, stealing, embezzlement, even bank robbery (I've been in treatment (or meetings) with two bank robbers).”
Source: Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
“If the concept of consciousness were to fall to science, what would happen to our sense of moral agency and free will? If conscious experience were reduced somehow to mere matter in motion, what would happen to our appreciation of love and pain and dreams and joy? If conscious human beings were just animated material objects, how could anything we do to them be right or wrong?”
“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.”