I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.”
Source: I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters
“If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.”
“IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their peril is ultimately unreal. And if we wish to exalt the outcast and the crucified, we shall rather wish to think that a veritable God was crucified, rather than a mere sage or hero. Above all, if we wish to protect the poor we shall be in favour of fixed rules and clear dogmas. The rules of a club are occasionally in favour of the poor member. The drift of a club is always in favour of the rich one.”
“If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.”
Source: Release The Power Of Prayer
“If we desire our souls to be sanctify, we shall hunger for the Truth.”
“If we desire peace, we must prepare for peace. The most important thing is to build a culture of peace.”
“If we desire power over sin, we must pray.”
“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.”
“If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.”
Source: In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan
“If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.”
Source: Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses
“If we desire to be close to Spirit of God, we desire to dwell in clean soul with a clean body.”
“If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of thought and action; we find new elements of our nature called into activity; we are no longer running along a narrow track of selfish habit.”
Source: Self-culture, lectures
“If we desire to end our days in joy and comfort, let us lay the foundation of a comfortable death now betimes. To die well is not a thing of that light moment as some imagine: it is no easy matter. But to die well is a matter of every day. Let us daily do some good that may help us at the time of our death. Every day by repentance pull out the sting of some sin,that so when death comes, we may have nothing to do but to die. To die well is the action of the whole life.”
“If we desire to have a fit body, work towards having one too.”
“If we desire to increase wealth in the world, we should not focus on the alleviation of poverty. To focus on poverty increases poverty. To focus on wealth increases wealth.”
Source: The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.”
“If we desire to live securely, comfortably, and quietly, that by all honest means we should endeavor to purchase the good will of all men, and provoke no man's enmity needlessly; since any man's love may be useful, and every man's hatred is dangerous.”
Source: The Sermons and Expository Treatises of Isaac Barrow: With a Life of the Author
“If we desire to make the world a better place, we will experience the suffering of those in need.”
Source: Beloved Chaos: moving from religion to Love in a red light district
“If we desire without praying, how can we find the means to fulfill the desired wish?”
“If we destroy human rights and rule of law in response to terrorism, they have won.”
“If we destroy our time, time also destroys us very badly”
Source: No One Is Better Than You
“If we destroy something around us we destroy ourselves. If we cheat another, we cheat ourselves.”
“If we destroy their environments and communities, we will lose the answers they have to solving our problems, and to the protection of our common futures.”
“If we devalue one another, we eventually dishonor one another. If we dishonor one another, then dissension grows between us. When dissension escalates destruction becomes inevitable.”
Source: Two Are Better Than One: Build Purpose and Unity in Your Marriage
“If we develop a good heart we will progress to true compassion, and awaken Bodhicitta. This is the way of the Buddha's method.”
“If we develop concern for other people's welfare, share other people's
suffering, and help them, ultimately we will benefit. If we think only
of ourselves and forget about others, ultimately we will lose. The more
we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of
well-being becomes.”
“If we develop in-depth knowledge, it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world.”
“If we develop the force of will, we shall find that we do not need the force of arms.”
Source: Communal Unity
“If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.”
“If we devour each other, we end up destroying one another.”
“If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.”
Source: The portable Thomas Jefferson
“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
“If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.”
“If we did get a divorce, the only way my husband would find out about it is if they announced it on Wide World of Sports.”
“If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money supply without worrying about the price of gold.”
“If we did not bear the stigmata of life, how easy it would be to steal away, and how well everything would go by itself!”
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.”
Source: THE ABOLITION OF MAN
“If we did not feel the bitterness of his anger, we would not so sweetly relish His love.”
Source: Trouble of Mind and the Disease of Melancholy: Written for the Use of Such As Are or Have Been Exercised by the Same
“If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.”
“If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?”
“If we did not have a patent system, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge of its economic consequences, to recommend instituting one. But since we have had a patent system for a long time, it would be irresponsible, on the basis of our present knowledge, to recommend abolishing it.”
“If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.”
“If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.”
“If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create an agency the size of NASA to build one.”
“If we did not have the adorable Eucharist here below, Jesus our God-with-us, this earth would be much too sad, this life too hard, and time too long. We must be grateful to the divine goodness for having left us this hidden Jesus, this pillar of cloud and fire in this desert”
“If we did not know all His retorts by heart, if we had not taken the sting out of them by incessant repetition in the accents of the pulpit, and if we had not somehow got it into our heads that brains were rather reprehnsible, we should reckon Him among the greatest wits of all time. Nobody else, in three brief years, has achieved such an output of epigram.”
“If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.”
Source: Solitude a Return to the Self
“If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard to accept. I believe it's deadly accurate. But again, we can solve it.”
“If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.”
“If we did realize the difference between the vital few and the trivial many in all aspects of our lives, and if we did something about it, we could multiply anything that we valued.”
Source: The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less