I Quotes
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“If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.”
“If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves, then must its greatest happiness consist in seeing the current of its beneficent influences widening out from age to age, as rivulets widen into rivers, and aiding to shape the destinies of individuals, families, States, the World; and its bitterest punishment, in seeing its evil influences causing mischief and misery , and cursing and afflicting men, long after the frame it dwelt in has become dust, and when both name and memory are forgotten.”
Source: Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
“If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send me temptations."”
“If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice. Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling and out of tune, and some to the feeble piping of a penny whistle, and mine could be told with a couple of nails in a rusty tin-pot.”
Source: My Brilliant Career
“If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted.”
“If the soup had been as warm as the wine;
if the wine had been as old as the turkey;
and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid,
it would have been a swell dinner.”
“If the Southeast represents the new battlefield in the war on meth, then Tennessee clearly is at ground zero.”
“If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.”
“If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.”
“If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.”
“If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.”
Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches
“If the Space Beings want to contact you, they will do so. They do the choosing.”
“If the space that you take up is the sum total of the space that you influence, you have wasted your space while robbing all of the other spaces.”
“If the speech is natural and conversational; the treatment sincere and original; the craftsmanship matured—there is no reason in the poet's effort to withhold him from a seat among the immortals.”
Source: The Complete Rhyming Dictionary
“If the spirit comes through in a Madame George type of song, that's what the spirit says. You have very little to do with it. You're like an instrument for what's coming through.”
“If the spirit does not move me, I move the Spirit.”
Source: Greater Works: Experiencing God’s Power
“If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more excited, and demands more sensations, and stronger and stronger ones, until at length it falls exhausted.”
“If the spirit of business adventure is dulled, this country will cease to hold the foremost position in the world.”
“If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn't ask you to make it right; He only asks you to accept the light of truth, and then He will make it right. A child of the light will confess sin instantly and stand completely open before God. But a child of the darkness will say, “Oh, I can explain that.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“If the Spirit of God has given you a vision of what you are apart from the grace of God, your view of others will be seen through the Len’s of love, patience, and compassion.”
Source: Making Love To God
“If the spirit of man is a lamp of God, until the lamp goes out you must keep burning to give light.”
“If the spirit of their intercourse were still the same after their coming together as it had been when they were living apart,' Aristotle writes, their association can't really be considered a polis, or political community.
'A polis is not an association for residence on a common site, or for the sake of preventing mutual injustice and easing exchange.' While these conditions are necessary to a polis, they are not sufficient. 'The end and purpose of a polis is the good life, and the institutions of social life are means to that end.”
“If the spirits themselves were not afraid, how come they only move about at night?
- Imminent River”
Source: Imminent River
“If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.”
“If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.”
“If the spiritual values of human existence at its highest term of development and achievement do not endure, amidst all the changes and chances of this mortal universe, there seems to be no stable or coherent meaning in existence. Then the universe is irrational--indeed it is no universe at all.”
Source: Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.
“If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.”
Source: Creation: a novel
“If the Spray discovered no continents on her voyage, it may be that there were no more continents to be discovered. She did not seek new worlds, or sail to pow-wow about the dangers of the sea.”
Source: The Voyages of Joshua Slocum
“If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.”
“If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence.”
“If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.”
Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001
“If the staffe be crooked, the shadow cannot be straight.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“If the standard model is correct, the universe started in a state of high density and temperature, with all matter and radiation forming one great continuous mass. It is very remarkable that this undifferentiated soup should have the intrinsic property that in due course of time it develops into galaxies of which at least one creates life with such staggering complexity, subtlety and diversity and often such stunning beauty. It also creates thinking and feeling beings which in turn can contemplate the universe and study its properties and which can love and hate.”
Source: The Ultimate Fate of the Universe
“If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.”
“If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.”
“If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything.”
Source: Everybody's Autobiography
“If the stars have their say”
If the stars have their say,
we will collide again,
our paths tangled like threads in an old story,
crossing and uncrossing,
finding each other in every lifetime.
There is a kind of beauty in the ache,
in the way we love like it’s war,
fierce and unrelenting,
holding on to fragments of us—
the stolen glances, the touch that lingers,
every moment heavy with the weight of almost and not quite.
We love as if each second could be the last,
as if our hearts were never meant to beat alone,
and there’s nothing braver
than letting ourselves remember,
letting ourselves feel it all,
again and again.”
“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.”
“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.”
“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God.”
“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.”
Source: Nature and Selected Essays
“If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.”
Source: The Assault on religion: commentaries on the decline of religious liberty
“If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, still inasmuch as all the citizens cannot be alike, the virtue of the citizen and of the good man cannot coincide. All must have the virtue of the good citizen - thus, and thus only, can the state be perfect; but they will not have the virtue of a good man, unless we assume that in the good state all the citizens must be good.”
Source: The Essential Aristotle
“If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.”
Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
“If the State does not enjoy a monopoly of violence, which then gives it the power to order people's lives and to compel them to obey decisions over which they have no control, or just limited control, then I think you have a consistently libertarian society.”
“If the state is just the accumulated results of past conflicts, and if preservation of the state becomes the end that grounds necessity, then the fact of violence becomes a kind of law, and the law, grounded in the need to preserve what fate has established, blurs into the fact of organized violence”
Source: Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics
“If the state is strong, it crushes us. If it is weak, we perish.”
“If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after a day when Mr. Obama leads 19 out of 20 swing-state polls, then you should abandon the pretense that your goal is to inform rather than entertain the public.”
“If the state, with all of the emotional resources at its command, cannot finance its most basic and vital activities without resort to compulsion, it would seem that large private organizations might also have difficulty in getting the individuals in the groups whose interests they attempt to advance to make the necessary contributions voluntarily.”
Source: THE LOGIC OF COLLECTIVE ACTION
“If the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all.”