I Quotes
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“If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.”
Source: History of Redemption, on a Plan Entirely Original: Exhibiting the Gradual Discovery and Accomplishment of the Divine Purposes in the Salvation of Man, Including a Comprehensive View of Church History and the Fulfilment of Scripture Prophecies
“If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did from the fall of man to prepare the way for it, is in vain. Consider what greater folly could you have devised to charge upon God than this, that all those things were done so needlessly; when, instead of all this, He might only have called you forth, and committed the business to you, which you think you can do so easily.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards: Volume I - III
“If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.”
“If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)
“If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.”
“If there be no enemy, no fight; if do fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.”
“If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst the foolery of materialism leads to competition and undue ambition and ultimate death, individual and national.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.”
“If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.”
Source: The plays of William Shakespeare: in twenty-one volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, to which are added notes
“If there be no place for wild bison in all of Montana, then surely we have crossed a line between the Last Best Place and the the Once Best Place.”
“If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure that it is better for men to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this.”
Source: Trial of Sir Roger Casement
“If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.”
“If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great Soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. In the realm of nature, every thing has been wrought out in the august consciousness of infinite leisure; and I bless God for that geology which gives me a key to the patience in which the creative process was effected.”
“If there be one man, more than another, who deserves to succeed in flying through the air, that man is Mr. Laurence Hargrave, of Sydney, New South Wales.”
Source: Progress in Flying Machines
“If there be one righteous person, the rain falls for his sake.”
“If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.”
Source: Zones of Thought: A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky
“If there be some who, though ignorant of all mathematics . . . dare to reprove this work, because of some passage of Scripture, which they have miserably warped to their purpose, I regard them not, and even despise their rash judgement.”
“If There Be Sorrow
If there be sorrow
let it be
for things undone
undreamed
unrealized
unattained
to these add one:
Love withheld
... restrained”
“If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.”
Source: Caleb Williams
“If there be the truth of grace, there will be an endeavor after the strength of grace.”
Source: Time and the End of Time: Discourses on Redeeming the Time and Considering Our Latter End
“If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.”
“If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.”
“If there can be no love without hate, then I love to hate hate.”
“If there can be some paradigm shift thing that you can be part of, that's cool.”
“If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spring.”
Source: The Bird and the Bell: With Other Poems
“If there could've ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.”
“If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.”
“If there ever comes a day when I’m not able to appreciate you, remember you will be in my heart whatever I do.”
“If there ever comes a day when the Saints interfere with the rights of others to live as they see fit, you can know with assurance that the Church is no longer led by a Prophet, but a mere man.”
“If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.”
“If there ever comes a time when the women of the world come together purely and simply for the benefit of mankind, it will be a force such as the world has never known.”
“If there ever is a need or if anyone's hurting, I'm the person they come to because they know what they're going to get. They know I'll pray for them. They know I'll encourage them. It's amazing that I get to be there for people. I'm sure I'll hear later on how God was working in it all, but for me, it's really about loving people well.”
“If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.”
“If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Political Writings
“If there ever was a misnomer, it is "exact science." Science has always been full of mistakes. The present day is no exception. And our mistakes are good mistakes; they require a genius to correct. Of course, we do not see our own mistakes.”
Source: Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics
“If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination”
“If there ever was a pursuit which stultified itself by its very conditions, it is the pursuit of pleasure as the all-sufficing end of life. Happiness cannot come to any man capable of enjoying true happiness unless it comes as the sequel to duty well and honestly done. To do that duty you need to have more than one trait. From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.”
“If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the Crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this.”
“If there ever was a time for a cool, rational and unemotional series of responses on the part of people in Europe, it is now. One reason is that Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Trump are very similar: They are macho types, they are bullies - and they want the same thing: to weaken the EU, albeit for different reasons. Trump, for his part, is a protectionist of the first order, and he wants to make his vision work. He shows no interest in competition with others, but aims to go back to the 1930s.”
“if there ever was a time for sentimentality and traditional merrymaking, one that has transcended religious orientation, Christmas must be that time. The effect seems salutary: even people who ordinarily are as colorful and gay as groundworms, who would dare not consider a flamboyant gesture, hang long strings of brightly colored lights around their houses, trim Christmas trees, and talk to strangers.”
Source: The Vegetarian Epicure
“If there ever was a time in our evolution of consciousness it is now—the ground is prepared for this planting.”
“If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now”
“If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.”
Source: God's Love: How the Infinite God Cares for His Children
“If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.”
Source: 41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition
“If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism.”
Source: Fidel Castro Speaks
“If there ever were one moment where everything worked for us, where we lived in harmony and at ease with our natures, then we would still be there. There is no garden to return to, no idyllic perfect childhood, no enwombed state. The Garden of Eden was boring, childhood is a nightmare we should all be grateful to be done with, and your mother smoked while she was pregnant and poisoned you in the womb with artificial sugar substitutes. The best thing any of us can do is just to keep fucking up in a forward motion, and see what comes out of it.”
Source: The Dead Ladies Project: Exiles, Expats, and Ex-Countries
“If there existed any true, real boundary ... how could the blade or bullet pass through the body? Were it not for the lack of boundary, you could not kill. The knife or bullet would not go in. Even sound and light passes through the glass orb. There's no boundary there.”
“If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.”
Source: The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)
“If there existed only one man or woman who did not love the Saviour, and if that person lived among the wilds of Siberia, and if it were necessary that all the millions of believers on the face of the earth should journey there, and every one of them plead with him to come to Jesus before he could be converted, it would be well worth all the zeal, labour, and expense. If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.”
“If there exists a law against human turned God, I shall face it, I shall win it”