I Quotes
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“If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like
prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution. There
is no God, and there is no immortality. And what is the consequence of
this? It means that life itself is absurd. It means that the life we
have is without ultimate significance, value, or purpose.”
“If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.”
“If there is no God, there is no hope.”
“If there is no god, what is left but science? What is left to endow us with any grace? You can tell me the chemical makeup of my skin and my brain, but how can you explain away my soul? And if there is no god to watch over me, chastise me, grieve for me, rejoice for me, make me fear, and make me wonder, what am I but a collection of metals and liquids with nothing to celebrate about my daily living?”
“If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?”
“If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?”
“If there is no happy ending. Make one out of cookie dough.”
Source: If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow/Add One More Star to the Night
“If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are honest. Expressing your clear desires does not make you a dictator and you telling what you think, feel, and what you want or don’t want, is just called being honest. It doesn't control him at all. You’re trying to control others by withholding information by not getting involved and by not being honest. Withholding information is a form of manipulation. It is dishonest and it’s destructive to a relationship.”
“If there is no humility, love remains blocked.”
“If there is no idea in the drawing, there is no idea in the constructed project. That's the expression of the idea. Architects make drawings that other people build. I make the drawings. If someone wants to build from those, that's up to them. I feel I'm making architecture. I believe the building comes into being as soon as it's drawn.”
“If there is no ideal above personal happiness, no one will sacrifice life for country, civilization, or anything else.”
Source: Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
“If there is no intelligence in the universe, then the universe has created something greater than itself-for it has created you and me.”
“If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin!”
“If there is no kindness with your rightness, then that is madness.”
“If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship.”
Source: Approaching God: Accepting the Invitation to Stand in the Presence of God
“If there is no love for others, love of country is just a slogan.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?”
“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it walls, and we will furnish it with soft red interiors, from the inside out, and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweller's felt so that we should never hear it. Love me, because love doesn't exist, and I have tried everything that does.”
“If there is no love in your heart - so sorry, Then there is no hope for you - true, true”
“If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.”
Source: The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
“If there is no love, there is no problem… right?”
Source: Where the Dark Knelt
“If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.”
Source: The only revolution
“If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.”
Source: Collected Works: The Abraham Lincoln Association, Springfield, Illinois. Roy P. Basler, Editor; Marion Dolores Pratt and Lloyd A. Dunlap, Assistant Editors
“If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.”
“If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it....for me, every act of the art of solving a mystery.”
“If there is no objective morality then love is no better than murder.”
“If there is no openness of the heart, the openness of any place matters nothing.”
“If there is no order in your relationship with your wife, with your husband, with your children, with your neighbour - whether that neighbour is near or very far away - forget about meditation.”
“IF THERE IS NO ORDER THERE CAN BE NO
PEACE.”
Source: Revealed Truth: A Journey From Fear to Faith
“If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.”
“If there is no other world and there is no fruit and ripening of actions well done or ill done, then here and now in this life I shall be free from hostility, affliction, and anxiety, and I shall live happily.”
“If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.”
“If there is no passionate love for Christ at the center of everything, we will only jingle and jangle our way across the world, merely making a noise as we go”
“If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.”
“If there is no personal God,everything is permissablel, and if God exists,everthing is possible.”
“If there is no phone, there is noise; but if there is a phone, there is silence—just as a crying, unruly baby suddenly falls silent upon receiving the mother’s nipple.”
“If there is no place for integration in your identity there’s no way there’ll be integration in society.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other, by discovering things about nature, by creating works of art. And that — in a way, although we are not the stars in a cosmic drama, if the only drama we're starring in is one that we are making up as we go along, it is not entirely ignoble that faced with this unloving, impersonal universe we make a little island of warmth and love and science and art for ourselves. That's not an entirely despicable role for us to play.”
“If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.”
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value.”
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“If there is no randomness in the universe, then what do we mean by chaos?”
Source: Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness
“If there is no reformer, there will be no civilization.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“If there is no reward, there is no reason to run”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“If there is no sarcasm, there's no true love towards the mankind”
“If there is no silence beyond and within the many words of doctrine, there is no religion, only a religious ideology. For religion goes beyond words and actions, and attains to the ultimate Truth only in silence and Love.”
Source: Echoing Silence: Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing
“If there is no solace in the fruits of our research, there is at least some consolation in the research itself. Men and women are not content to comfort themselves with tales of gods and giants, or to confine their thoughts to the daily affairs of life; they also build telescopes and satellites and accelerators and sit at their desks for endless hours working out the meaning of the data they gather.”
“If there is no solitude without community, there is no community without solitude. The death of solitude is the death of community.”
Source: Godsends: From Default Atheism to the Surprise of Revelation
“If there is no solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it. If there is a solution to the problem then don't waste time worrying about it.”
“If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by good nutritious food-then only will the mind be strong.”
Source: Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”