I Quotes
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“If we admit instrumental musick in the worship of God, how can we resist the imposition of all the instruments used among the ancient Jews?—yea, dancing as well as playing, and several other Judaic actions? or, how can we decline a whole rabble of church-officers, necessary to be introduced for instrumental musick, whereof our Lord Jesus Christ hath left us no manner of direction?”
Source: Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from Its First Planting in the Year 1620, Unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698
“If we admit it or not, skiing is a little bit of show biz”
“If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.”
Source: Paulus: Reminiscences of a Friendship
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.”
Source: War and Peace
“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.”
“If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.”
Source: An Oration on the Gods
“If we adopt a self-centered approach to life, by which we attempt to use others for our own self interest, we might be able to gain temporary benefits, but in the long run we will not succeed in achieving even our personal happiness, and hope for the next life is out of the question.”
“If we adopt the manifest of all the religions, no one would survive.”
“If we adopt the same collaborative mindset and practices that got to the moon and back, and that built the International Space Station, we can alleviate poverty—and do much more.”
Source: The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
“If we adopted Jack," I quip, "we'd have to give him combat pay for an allowance”
Source: Vampire Syndrome
“If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.”
Source: James Madison's
“If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things; and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event - and in this single moment of affirmation all eternity was called good, redeemed, justified, and affirmed.”
“If we affirm the real existence of mind, how can we deny that imaginary entities do not exist? Isn't the so-called mind supposed to be infinite by itself?”
“If we aggressively pursue truth, if we are willing to sacrifice, if we look for wisdom from those on the periphery, we have the potential to shock the world from its apathy.”
“If we agree in love, there is no disagreement that can do us any injury,
but if we do not, no other agreement can do us any good.
Let us endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace.”
Source: A Treatise on Atonement: In which the Finite Nature of Sin is Argued, Its Cause and Consequences as Such; the Necessity and Nature of Atonement; And, Its Glorious Consequences, in the Final Reconciliation of All Men to Holiness and Happiness
“If we agree on everything, only one of us is necessary.”
Source: Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior: A Companion to the Book that Changes Lives
“If we agree that God did not create poverty then, in my opinion, it came in to being as a consequence of human rights violations.”
“If we agree that God did not create poverty, then in my opinion, poverty came in to being as a consequence of human rights violations.”
“if we agree that in the future, every organization is essentially a digital organization—enabled through digital technologies, engaging customers on digital platforms and using online applications to drive sales, engagement or compliance—then it isn’t just the seamlessness of outcomes, but equally the methodology employed to deliver those outcomes which must be consistent across a large organization”
Source: The Future Ready Organization: How Dynamic Capability Management Is Reshaping the Modern Workplace
“If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.”
Source: Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning
“If we agree that the education, employment and retirement continuum is no longer a linear “cradle to grave” construct, then several tools for managing this reality are increasingly proving redundant. Job descriptions used for hiring are one such example. Hiring managers often write these as a reflection of their own experiences, ignoring the fact that we are entering an era where the emphasis should be less on ready competence and more on transferable skills.”
“If we agree that the world is not what it seems, then we have an important question: What shall we do about it?”
“If we agree that universities need to monitor sexual violence in various locations, and that they will require students to hew to a narrower set of rules than the wider world, how do we deal with putting these ideas into the brains of teenagers who have been schooled in the disgusting gender norms of our American culture for the previous eighteen years? This is the essential conundrum. Can we teach these relatively young dogs new tricks? I believe that we can.”
“If we agree to say that those terrorists are indeed Muslim, I have no problem whatsoever to condemn their actions. I won't apologise though, or justify my point of view.”
“If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp.”
Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace
“If we aim for what is no longer possible, we will achieve only delusion and frustration. But if we aim for genuinely worthwhile goals that can be attained, then even if we have less energy at our command and fewer material goods available, we might nevertheless still increase our satisfaction in life.”
Source: The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality
“If we aim to act in harmony with the laws of Good, we rise above all other laws and become a law unto ourselves; co-workers with God and helpers in nature. Ours is the privilege, ours the loss, if we fail to live up to our highest possibilities.”
Source: Simplified Scientific Astrology
“If we aim to get it right with all youth, a productive starting point is to design teaching and learning to the group (s) of students who have been marginalized the most in society and within schools. Thus, we need frameworks that have been written by people of color and designed for children of color.”
Source: Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
“If we all aim to love ourselves, every bit, we will become love and radiate beauty to all those around us.”
“If we all are right, then who is wrong?”
“If we all aspire and appraise our consciousness, there will come a day where the divine grace could be brought down to Earth to continue the physical evolving to the spiritual evolving process on Earth.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“If we all but had twenty-four hours more to live, what would we do? And for nearly all, the answer was 'Spend it with the ones I love.”
“If we all can figure out how to work together then we are the embodiment of salvation for our entire planet. We have the capabilities of it. That's the gist of it.”
“If we all climb together, we could climb the highest hill.”
“If we all could be a true friend to someone, praying and encouraging one person somehow, that's a first step in being part of making the world a better place.”
“If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones.”
“If we all desire love and acceptance, shouldn't we love and accept all others?”
“If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
“If we all die and become stars then I must believe that our souls live in the stars. Now I know why people look up to the sky when they think of someone they wish to see”
Source: The Universe at Heartbeat
“If we all die and there is no God, then it's just eternal unconsciousness, you'll never know, but if you're wrong... you'll know forever.”
“If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek.”
Source: India of My Dreams
“If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.”
Source: Gandhi: Selected Writings
“If we all gave all our goods to the poor, the church would fall apart. If we all hated our father and mother, as Jesus told us to, there'd be an end of the church's emphasis on the family as being the one important thing holding the whole society together. There are all sorts of ways in which the church's teachings contradict directly what Jesus says in the Gospel.”
“If we all gave to charity as much as we give to movie theaters on a monthly basis, I believe we could end hunger.”
“If we all got angry together something might be done.”
Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
“If we all got what we deserved we'd all be dead. And yet somehow God refrains from smiting us. Whatever you ought to have done then, dying won't undo it now.”
Source: Crimson Bound
“If we all had a little bit of Michael Jackson in us, I think it would make the world a better place.”
“If we all had all we wanted to eat, we'd crap too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.”
“If we all helped one person, wouldn't the world be an unbelievable place?”
“If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self.”