I Quotes
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“If we are to have the very best Christmas ever, we must listen for the sound of sandaled feet. We must reach out for the Carpenter's hand. With every step we take in his footsteps, we abandon a doubt and gain a truth.”
“If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for.”
“If we are to include the outer and the inner struggle in a conception more definite than that of conflict in general, we must employ some such phrase as 'spiritual force.' This will mean whatever forces act in the human spirit, whether good or evil, whether personal passion or impersonal principle; doubts, desires, scruples, ideas-whatever can animate, shake, possess, and drive a man's soul. [19]In a Shakespearean tragedy some such forces are shown in conflict.”
Source: Shakespearean Tragedy
“If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.”
“If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.”
“If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.”
“If we are to know God, we must read His words, for therein He stands revealed to the honest in heart.”
“If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.”
Source: Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
“If we are to know the Lord, we must go to Him. Listen to Him in silence before the Tabernacle and approach Him in the Sacraments.”
Source: The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation
“If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.”
“If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.”
“If we are to live ... we must take risks. Else our lives become deaths in all but name. There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.”
Source: Toll the Hounds
“If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the fact that we who are christian are heirs to a body-despising, woman-fearing, sexually repressive religious tradition. If we are to continue as members of the church, we must challenge and transform it at the root. What is required is more than simply a "reformation." I am speaking of revolutionary transformation. Nothing less will do.”
Source: Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God
“If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.”
“If we are to love sincerely, and with simplicity, we must first of all overcome the fear of not being loved.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“If we are to maintain global wellbeing, at both personal and social level, then social media awareness programs are to be made compulsory in schools and professional firms.”
Source: Mission Reality
“If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.”
“If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.”
Source: In the shadow of young girls in flower
“If we are to make significant strides in climate action through electric vehicles, then producing them as a class statement for the rich won't do, they must be made affordable enough to be owned by the vast population of working classes.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“If we are to make the most of the opportunities ahead we need a bold break with the past.”
“If we are to maximize the potential of young girls everywhere, we have to think, in this instance, literally outside the box. And the first step of doing that is to see the box for what it really is: A perfect, pretty PROBLEM.”
“If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, we must maintain a diverse supply of electricity, and nuclear power must be part of that mix.”
“If we are to merely please and be afraid of Gods… what different are those Gods from these demons… who seek only pleasure and fear? - The Young Prince (DEV)”
Source: DEV
“If we are to move towards our collective bliss, it's time we shed our focus on the physical.”
Source: Defiant: A Broken Body Is Not a Broken Person
“If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.”
“If we are to overcome terrorism and violence, we need education. That is the only way we can win.”
“If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.”
“If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized.”
“If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.”
“If we are to preserve the integrity of golf as left to us by our forefathers, it is up to all of us to carry on the true spirit of the game.”
“If we are to presuppose that the universe is inherently material, that we are emergent organisms from this universe and by nature we seek and generate meaning, meaning itself becomes a substructure of the universe. To think otherwise is to dissociate ourself from the universe, which contradicts the latter belief”
Source: Reassembling Models of Reality: Theory and Clinical Practice
“If we are to prevent the fabric of our society from coming apart, we must
teach our children to excel not only academically, but also in their
appreciation of their obligation to others.”
“If we are to produce a more civilized society, a more just society, it has to be based on the truth.”
“If we are to progress in the spiritual walk so that the Disciplines are a blessing and not a curse, we must come to the place in our lives where we can lay down the everlasting burden of always needing to manage others.”
Source: Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth
“If we are to prosper together in our increasingly small world, we must listen to -- and learn from each other's stories”
“If we are to put the era of nuclear terror behind us, we must struggle against the real 'enemy.' That enemy is not nuclear weapons per se, nor is it the states that possess or develop them. The real enemy that we must confront is the ways of thinking that justify nuclear weapons; the readiness to annihilate others when they are seen as a threat or as a hindrance to the realization of our objectives.”
“If we are to put the past on trial, where do we stop?”
“If we are to raise a society of peace, the civilians must be stripped off their guns, just like they are stripped off all weapons-grade nuclear material.”
Source: Vatican Virus: The Forbidden Fiction
“If we are to reach certainty and true autonomy of realization, we need to be willing to be heretics. What's more, we need to become universal heretics, not believing anything that we do not know from direct experience, beyond stories, beyond hearsay, and even beyond the mind.”
Source: Diamond Heart: Book Five: Inexhaustible Mystery
“If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“If we are to receive the blessings God wants to bestow upon us, we must be willing to give Him the messes in our lives.”
“If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions.”
Source: Spiral Dance: Slipcase
“If we are to remain mission focused, as we must be if we are to be relevant in an uncertain age, the abandoning those things that do not further the mission is a leadership imperative.”
Source: Hesselbein on Leadership
“If we are to remain preeminent in transforming knowledge into economic value, America's system of higher education must remain the world's leader in generating scientific and technological breakthrough, and in meeting the challenge to educate workers.”
“If we are to remain relevant and not delegate our strategic decision-making to machines, we must create innovative social and economic ecosystems that become stronger under stress and through shocks.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption
“If we are to remain relevant, we must create innovative social and economic ecosystems that become stronger under stress and through shocks.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“If we are to remain relevant, we need to build antifragile foundations to prepare for disruption and benefit from any disorder.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume II - Essential Frameworks for Disruption and Uncertainty
“If we are to remain relevant, we need to build antifragile foundations to prepare for disruption and benefit from any disorder. We must create innovative, fluid, and adventurous mindsets as well as social and economic networked ecosystems that strengthen from stress, random events, and shocks.”
Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation
“If we are to rise as real Sapiens, we must work towards spreading education among the masses.”
Source: The Education Decree