I Quotes
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“If we are not one, we are not in the true sense of the word the disciples of the Lord Jesus.”
“If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.”
“If we are not peaceful, if we are not feeling well in our skin, we cannot demonstrate real peace, and we cannot raise our children well either.”
Source: Love in Action: Writings on Nonviolent Social Change
“If we are not personally engaged in God's great mission in the world, then we have missed the very thing he created us to do. We are like birds meant to fly but living in a cage; fish meant to swim but floundering on the beach. It makes sense when you think about it. If the Author of the universe created us to play a key role in his unfolding drama but we have failed to find our place in that story, then of course we would feel incomplete.”
Source: Unfinished: Filling the Hole in Our Gospel
“If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.”
Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies
“If we are not presenting ourselves with nuanced experiences and new knowledge, we will never be allowed to grow.”
“If we are not registering bad events in history to learn from them, then why are we even still publishing them at all? Is it really an outlandish ideal to want a peaceful and prosperous nation, one ruled only by compassion, truth and justice? As of now, there is no peace, no truth, no prosperity, no compassion - and NO COMMON SENSE. Since when did the words human and inhumane share the same meaning?”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“If we are not registering bad events in history to learn from them, then why are we even still registering them at all? Is it really an outlandish ideal to want a peaceful and prosperous nation, ruled only by compassion, truth and justice? As of now, there is no peace, no truth, no prosperity, no compassion - and NO COMMON SENSE. Since when did the words human and inhumane share the same meaning? Think, people. I am only asking you to THINK.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“If we are not satisfied with our lives, we hold a personal responsibility to consciously change our circumstances for the better - wherever possible.”
“If we are not sensible about this, in our ideas of wealth creation we may completely destroy the planet - which we are already doing in many ways.”
“If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems.”
“If we are not serving Jesus, and if he is not in our thoughts and hearts, then the things of the world will draw us instead to them! Moreover, the things of the world need not be sinister in order to be diverting and consuming.”
“If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?”
Source: The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments
“If we are not submitted to Jesus Christ, then the forces of darkness will not be subject to us.”
“If we are not taught about love when our brains and hearts are forming, we may never even recognize it when it stands in front of us. We may even run from it. We would miss out on the one thing that makes life worth living.”
Source: Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal
“If we are not to abandon values such as peace and equality, or our commitments to science and truth, then we must pry these values away from claims about our psychological makeup that are vulnerable to being proven false.”
Source: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
“If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.”
“If we are not trusted, we have no business.”
“If we are not trusting, how will we find anyone trustworthy?”
“If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle.”
“If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.”
Source: Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage
“If we are not willing to let go knotty and prickly issues in time, our mental frame can be wrecked before long. One must be prepared to get the monkey off the back, eventually. ( « Les choses avaient enfin perdu leur pesanteur » )”
“If we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselves whether or not we are really following Jesus.”
Source: Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
“If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.”
“If we are obsessed by God, nothing else can get into our lives - not concerns, nor tribulation, not worries.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act.”
Source: Libra
“If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act.”
“If we are one in purpose, spirit, principle and faith, then it doesn't really matter if we are always of the same opinion. Opinions change and can be easily altered by time, experience, and circumstance. But principles, purposes, spirituality, and faith are enduring values that can bind us as one despite disagreement or dispute.”
“If we are only interested in changing the AS person so that they can better meld themselves into society - a tenuous and nebulous concept to begin with - then perhaps we are misguided. The AS community gives us much cause to celebrate. Never, I think, should we expect or want them to be carbon copies of the most socially adept among us. We should only suggest whatever help they need to insure they have every opportunity of leading productive, rewarding and self-sufficient lives. We would lose too much and they would lose even more, if our goals were anything more, or less.”
Source: Pretending to be Normal: Living with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) Expanded Edition
“If we are only willing to open our hearts and minds to the spirit of Christmas, we will recognize wonderful things happening around us.”
“If we are out of step with the priorities of real life and feel lost in the anarchy of our feelings, we must assert our humbleness and assume we need the shine of a guiding lighthouse in our emotional odyssey. ("Camera obscura of the mind")”
“If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.”
“If we are paying attention to something, it's important. That's how we decide to pay attention. But a communicator can reroute our attention to something that isn't important, but make it seem important as a consequence.”
“If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.”
Source: Being Peace
“If we are perceived by the rest of the world as employing a double standard in the way that we pursue the war on terror, if we are seen as imposing on other countries' nationals, burdens that we wouldn't be able to tolerate ourselves, then we sacrifice the legitimacy of the enterprise. And I don't think the world considers it illegitimate for the United States to seek to protect itself from another attack like the one we suffered on 9/11, but I think the world does think it is illegitimate to do so by sacrificing their citizens' rights and not our citizens' rights.”
“If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.”
“If we are placed under the focus of collective scrutiny, our experience of mortality makes life fragile and intensifies the existential burden. It is not essential to avoid death or lament its inescapability but to embrace the absurdity and keep living fully, searchingly, or joyfully despite its incongruity. ("Living on probation")”
“If we are practicing our faith and seeking the companionship of the Holy Spirit, his presence can be felt in our hearts and in our homes. A family having daily family prayers and seeking to keep the commandments of God and honor his name and speak lovingly to one another will have a spiritual feeling in their home that will be discernible to all who enter it.”
“If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.”
“If we are prepared to take the life of another being merely in order to satisfy our taste for a particular type of food, then that being is no more than a means to our end.”
Source: Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals
“If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.”
Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life
“If we are pure at heart, we would not wish one person well and not another. We should see there is no difference between one person or another. Then our pure thoughts can be evenly spread between all people. Sunshine can reflect on clean water but not on dirty water. God's light will be reflected by those persons with a pure heart.”
“If we are put here on this earth for our learning, then it's safe to say that life is a school and there are going to be tests.”
“If we are quiet enough, we can hear it: the space between us filling up fast with all the things we are too afraid to say to each other.”
Source: The Fire This Time: Essays on Life Under U.S. Occupation
“If we are ready to re-envision our status and reclaim a sense of involvement, we can transcend immediate reality, explore new possibilities, and find meaning and direction even in the face of confusion and misfortune. ("Check, and mate”)”
“If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for.”
“If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.”
Source: Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
“If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.”
“If we are really committed, we better get start taking care of our shit.”
Source: 30 Pieces
“If we are really going to learn from others, we must decide to fully obey.”