I Quotes
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“If we are going to stop wars on this earth, we are going to have to make war on hunger our number one priority.”
“If we are going to succeed, it can not be by employing the same techniques we deplore. We must be better than our enemies -- -- or we have lost before we've begun.”
Source: X-Men (1991-2001) #8
“If we are going to talk about the most recent of the "Indignados" movements in several countries of the world, including Europe, those are social movements but eventually they will evolve into political movements. This will happen because the traditional bourgeois parties have lost credibility after being the main political influence in most countries of Latin-America and Europe in the last 50 or 60 years.”
“If we are going to teach children in the 21st Century, we need to see it through a different lens.
-Blank Check: What Would You Do If You Were Asked to Reinvent Public Schools?”
“If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.”
“If we are going to teach the world to stop hating the different, the other, then we’re going to have to start with children.”
“If we are going to try to get across to the poorest people in the world that we care about their plight and we want them to join one world with the rest of us, we have got to make promises and keep promises.”
“If we are going to worship in Spirit, we must develop a spirit of worship.”
“If we are going to write history on the basis of the number of victims, then we should also take into account that Germany for example- as a colonial latecomer- developed a remedy to the sleeping disease that saved one to three million lives during the twenties. Without their colonial aspirations that would never have happened.”
“If we are good but not strong, we must learn that, without courage, other people will destroy our life. Everything we value is open to being taken or destroyed by a stronger person. If we are strong but not good, we must learn that we ruin our own lives.”
Source: Touched by Love
“If we are growing holier, we are growing kinder.”
“If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.”
“If we are guided to give up our possessions, it will be a positive thing for us.”
“If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.”
“If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.”
“If we are honest with ourselves and listen quietly ... we all harbor one fiercely held aspiration for our healthcare - that it keep us healthy.”
“If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.”
Source: Full Catastrophe Living (Revised Edition): Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
“If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.”
Source: Starting Your Day Right: Devotions for Each Morning of the Year
“If we are immortal it is a fact in nature, and we are not indebted to priests for it, nor to bibles for it, and it cannot be destroyed by unbelief.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“If we are imprisoned in ourselves, books provide us with the means of escape. If we have run too far away from ourselves, books show us the way back.”
“If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider that art does actually alleviate the most overpowering and tragic catastrophes by means of the creations it offers to our contemplation and enjoyment, it is the art of music which conducts us to the final summit of that ascent to freedom.”
Source: On the Arts: Selections from G.W.F. Hegel's Aesthetics or the Philosophy of Fine Art
“If we are in a high enough state of consciousness we see that life is only a passing dream.”
“If we are in a supermarket when someone drops a bag of groceries on the floor and we don't help that person pick things up, what difference does it make how deeply we know we're a being of God?.”
“If we are in Christ the whole basis of our goings is God, not conceptions of God, not ideas of God, but God Himself. We do not need any more ideas about God, the world is full of ideas about God, they are all worthless, because the ideas of God in anyone’s head are of no more use than our own ideas. What we need is a real God, not more ideas about Him.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their collective capacities.”
Source: The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States
“If we are in silence - in absolute silence with no thoughts - for 10 minutes, it's only a thought that tells us we were silent for 10 minutes. Our only proof is a thought.”
“If we are in sync with nature, we will be in sync with ourselves because although we belong to Heaven, we are made from earth.”
Source: Touched by Love
“If we are in the same state of mind, we just self-reflect, things are dull and gray and kind of boring.”
“If we are in tune with Nature, all her music can find a way into the heart. When bird music is rare, their occasional songs are precious to the ear.”
“If we are in tune with the Spirit, if we are seeking the Lord and His guidance, if our direction is to return to our Father in Heaven, the sweet moments will come. And we will treasure them, for we have become instruments in the hands of God”
“If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.”
“If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.”
Source: The Art of Travel
“If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other form of visible power at our disposal; but with such stones as we find in the brook, and with our own usual sling, let us run to meet the enemy.”
Source: Daily Devotion - 365 Days With Jesus
“If we are indeed created in God's image, then we, too, must create and then we, too, must rest.”
“If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them.”
Source: Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
“If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.”
Source: Sermons: Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief
“If we are intentional and serious about eradicating poverty at all levels, from personal to global, then we must stop all the propaganda and gimmicks and mean what we say and do what we mean. If mankind was able to go to the moon, then they should not fail to completely eradicate poverty on the planet Earth.”
“If we are interested in cultural processes, the only way in which we can know the significance of the selected detail of behaviour is against the background of the motives and emotions and values that are institutionalized in that culture.”
Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE
“If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.”
“If we are kind and considerate, people will want to be around us, and we benefit from enduring circles of attention and care.”
Source: Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct
“If we are kind for the sake of humanity; why we are so kind to good-looking people?”
“If we are leading but not closely following Christ, we are misleading.”
“If we are leaving the ‘fate’ of our next generation in someone’s hands, we are handing out kids destiny to him.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“If we are lending money that ostensibly we don't have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don't exist, I might suggest that we've gone around the bend a little bit.”
“If we are long absent from our friends, we forget them; if we are constantly with them, we despise them.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“If we are looked at without being seen, we may feel ignored.
If we are seen without being looked at, we may feel that we are victims of prejudices and identities that no longer correspond to us. We may feel misunderstood
But if someone looks at us and sees us, then we can feel loved.”
“If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and, beyond that, in the good health of our worldly places, our homelands. If we were sincerely looking for a place of safety, for real security and success, then we would begin to turn to our communities - and not the communities simply of our human neighbors but also of the water, earth, and air, the plants and animals, all the creatures with whom our local life is shared. (pg. 59, "Racism and the Economy")”
Source: The Hidden Wound
“If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would focus on credit”
“If we are looking for one single action which will enable the poor to overcome their poverty, I would go for credit. Money is power. I have been arguing that credit should be accepted as a human right. If we can come up with a system which allows everybody access to credit while ensuring excellent repayment - I can give you a guarantee that poverty will not last long.”