I Quotes
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“If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.”
“If the good is not dependent on the bad and can be separated from it, one gives effect to the good that remains after the separation if it still gives effect to the main objective.”
“If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.”
“If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for it.”
Source: Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s
“If the good-of-the-country justification isn't enough, there is always that eternally popular dissonance reducer: "They started it." Even Hitler said they started it, "they" being the victorious nations of World War I who humiliated Germany with the Treaty of Versailles, and Jewish "vermin" who were undermining Germany from within. The problem is, how far back do you want to go to show that the other guy started it? As our opening example of the Iran hostage crisis suggests, victims have long memories, and they can call on real or imagined episodes from the recent or distant past to justify their desire to retaliate now. For example, in the centuries of war between Muslims and Christians, sometimes simmering and sometimes erupting, who are the perpetrators and who the victims?”
Source: Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
“If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.”
Source: The Portable Abraham Lincoln
“If the good so loved and desired do appear possible and feasible in the attaining, then it exciteth the passion of hope, which is a compound of desire and expectation : when we look upon it as requiring our endeavour to attain it, and as it is to be had in a prescribed way, then it provokes the passion of courage or boldness, and concludes in resolution. Lastly, If this good be apprehended as preset, then ti provoketh to delight or joy. If the thing itself be present, the jy is greatest. If but the idea of it, either through the remainder or memory of the good that is past, or through the fore-apprehension of that which we expect, yet even this also exciteth our joy. And this joy is the perfection of all the rest of the affections, when it is raised on the full fruition of the good itself(575).”
Source: The Godly Home
“If the Gospel and the Apostles may be credited, no man can be a Christian without charity, and without that faith which works, not by force, but by love.”
Source: Works
“If the gospel be not preached, Jesus Christ is, as it were, buried.”
“If the gospel has never broken you, you have never really heard it.”
Source: Look and Live: Behold the Soul-Thrilling, Sin-Destroying Glory of Christ
“If the gospel is merely assumed, while relatively peripheral issues ignite our passion, we will train a new generation to downplay the gospel and focus zeal on the periphery.”
“If the gospel is old news to you, it will be dull news to everyone else.”
“If the gospel is only for the learned, how few there are of us who could have any use for it.”
“If the gospel is preach, the perishing will not perish, the dying will not die.”
“If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody.”
Source: Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
“If the gospel isn't good news for everybody, then it isn't good news for anybody. And this is because the most powerful things happen when the church surrenders its desire to convert people and convince them to join. It is when the church gives itself away in radical acts of service and compassion, expecting nothing in return, that the way of Jesus is most vividly put on display.”
Source: Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith
“If the gospel of Jesus Christ can be proclaimed as a theology of self-esteem, imagine the health this could generate in society!”
“If the gospel of Jesus Christ is not at the center of a wedding ceremony, it is likely not going to be at the center of the marriage. This would be a grave mistake, however, as marriage itself is designed to be a great reflector of that gospel.”
Source: The Mingling of Souls: God's Design for Love, Marriage, Sex, and Redemption
“If the gospel was of a nature to be propagated or maintained by the power of the world, God would not have intrusted it to fishermen. To defend the gospel appertains not to the princes and pontiffs of this world.”
“If the Gospels were mythical themselves, they could not provide the knowledge that demythologizes mythology.”
“If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.”
Source: The Hiding Place
“If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding.”
“If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.”
Source: The Best of Simple
“If the government can't get the black man justice, then it's time for the black man to get some justice for himself.”
“If the government can't get the economy moving again, they have a lot of fundamental problems.”
“If the government can't track illegals, then let's outsource the job to UPS or FedEx.”
“If the government disability system or workers compensation system discovers that the company involved has been breaking numerous Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) laws, is it legally required to report it to OSHA?”
“If the government doesn’t enforce your contracts or keep people from stealing your ideas and customers and goods, what do you have? Commerce is only possible through a group communal enforcement of goods.”
Source: sciVive
“If the government doesn't fund education, which they often don't, students are going to stay home and not go to school. It affects them directly. But I'm really not interested in writing explicitly about that. I'm really interested in human beings, and in love, and in family. Somehow, politics comes in.”
“If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.”
“If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.”
“If the Government gets into business on any large scale, we soon find that the beneficiaries attempt to play a large part in the control. While in theory it is to serve the public, in practice it will be very largely serving private interests. It comes to be regarded as a species of government favor and those who are the most adroit get the larger part of it.”
“If the government had been set up to guarantee a minimum subsistence allowance to all adults and children, COVID-19 would not have caused so much mayhem.”
“If the government in a country treats 60 percent of the population well and 40 percent badly, that means there is a dictatorship in that country; if it treats 90 percent well and 10 percent badly, or 5 percent badly, that still means there is a dictatorship in that country. Unless the government in the country treats all of the population well and embraces everyone, that means there is a dictatorship in that country and that government is illegitimate!”
“If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.”
“If the Government is going to intrude upon the sacred ground of the First Amendment and tell its citizens that their exercise of protected speech could land them in jail, the law imposing such a penalty must clearly define the prohibited speech not only for the potential offender but also for the potential enforcer.”
“If the government is to try and ban private consumption of alcohol and tobacco, it must surely ban such activities as hang-gliding, skiing, rock-climbing and so on. Where should it stop? Rugby? American Football? Ice Hockey?
Insofar as the government has information not generally available about the merits or demerits of the items we ingest or the activities we engage in, let it give us the information. But let it leave us free to choose what chances we want to take with our own lives.”
“If the government is vulnerable to public opinion, then famines are a dreadfully bad thing to have. You cant win many elections after a famine, and you dont like being criticized by newspapers, opposition parties in parliament, and so on. Democracy gives the government an immediate political incentive to act.”
“If the government looks at data that points to moral decay, they recruit more police officers. But when the number of students learning under a tree is alarming, they start a feeding program in those schools. Then they invite the media to praise them.”
“If the government mandates anything with a price tag on it, then it ought to fund the project.”
“If the government objects to monopoly prices for new inventions, it should stop granting patents.”
“If the government of this country tramples the faith and values of its citizens, history will hold those in power responsible for the violent convulsions that follow.”
“If the government or the parties won't address our needs, we will. It's about direct action, even civil disobedience.”
“If the government takes care of its citizen's wealth, the citizens will take care of his nation's wealth”
“If the government wants to do social policy, it should not be done in a quasi-public company. If you have a mortgage guarantee company which is done by the U.S. government, it should be guaranteed by the originators, i.e., the shareholder.”
“If the government wants to stimulate the economy, it should outlaw gambling”
“If the government was a human, it would have a Serious Mental Illness (SMI) diagnosis.”
“If the government was as afraid of disturbing the consumer as it is of disturbing business, this would be some democracy.”
“If the government was not making money, profit, or benefiting from our suffering, problems, or death. Our suffering and problems would have been resolved or ended and we won't be dying the way we are dying now.”
“If the government were obliged to come to the people for money instead of vice-versa, the people would keep government under control and operate their economy satisfactorily with prosperity and peace resulting. The peoples of the nations do not make war. For them peace is the natural and permanent order. Wars are planned and perpetrated by politicians and their diplomats; and the money power of government is the means by which the people are maneuvered into wars.”