I Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with I. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“If we score, we might win. If they never score, we can't lose.”
“If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.”
“If we scroll more than pray, that seeking part of us remains undiscovered.”
“If we search into the innermost part of our self, we come in the end to an utter void where nothing from the outside world can reflect itself, to a divine stillness where no image and no form can be active. This is the essence of our being. This is the true Spirit.”
Source: Advanced contemplation: The peace within you
“If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first; name later.”
“If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.”
“If we see mirages long enough they become our reality. Such is vision without wisdom.”
“If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.”
Source: The Bumps Are What You Climb On: Encouragement for Difficult Days
“If we see ourselves primarily from the point of view of our relationships (good, bad, and ugly), we will never be able to reach our full potential. While we deeply love those God gives us along the way, the most important, ongoing relationship we will ever have is with our own Divine being. We were born as a single entity, we will face death on our own, and we must make our way back to the Divine under our own steam. Never give that right and responsibility away to another person, and never take it from another. You will find that the respect and gratitude from those you do this for runs deep.”
Source: Touched by Love
“If we see pride among people who have no idea about Dharma, it is understandable. However, if afflictive emotions and haughtiness are present among Dharma practitioners, it is great disgrace to practice”
“If we see some admirable work of human art, we are at once eager to investigate the nature, the manner, the end of its production; and the contemplation of the works of God stirs us with an incomparably greater longing to learn the principles, the method, the purpose of creation. This desire, this passion, has without doubt been implanted in us by God. And as the eye seeks light, as our body craves food, so our mind is impressed with the . . . natural desire to know the truth of God and the causes of what we observe." --Origen(185-254)”
Source: Church History in Plain Language
“If we see someone in a wheelchair, we assume they cannot walk. It may be that they can walk three, four, five steps. That, to them, means they can walk.”
“If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.”
“If we see suffering then we don't have suffering.”
“If we see that we don’t get to control our thinking, that we don’t choose what thoughts pop up in a split second, then we will feel a full range of emotions and there is nothing to do about it. Often trying to do something about a feeling we have reinforces it rather than allowing it to pass naturally.”
Source: Sweet Sharing: Rediscovering the REAL You
“If we see the body we live in as a temple used to engage in beautiful activities in the service of God's children, then we recognize it as spiritual. But if we use our body for more selfish purposes, then we're only experiencing its material conception.”
“If we see things with the lenses of our respective communities and judge the work of the government with politicized minds, there will always be war between brothers”
“If we see things with the lenses of our respective communities or races and judge the work of the government with politicized minds, there will always be war between brothers.”
“If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.”
“If we seek a positive outcome, we must begin with a positive attitude.”
“If we seek first the Kingdom of God and live as we should, all the rest of life seems to fall into place and wonderful things happen.”
“If we seek for the best times to act, we may miss some opportunities. We must seize the moment and make it great.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“If we seek for the best times to act, we may missed some opportunities. We must seize every moment and make it great.”
“If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the spectrum, we may suppose three distinct sensations only to be excited by the rays of the three principal pure colours, falling on any given point of the retina, the red, the green, and the violet; while the rays occupying the intermediate spaces are capable of producing mixed sensations, the yellow those which belong to the red and green, and the blue those which belong to the green and violet.”
“If we seek God first, we shall all other goodness.”
“If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.”
“If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world.”
Source: Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century
“If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“If we seek purity, we shall pray.”
“If we seek solace in the prisons of the distant past
Security in human systems we're told will always always last
Emotions are the sail and blind faith is the mast
Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast."
(History Will Teach Us Nothing)”
Source: Nothing Like the Sun
“If we seek something, that same thing is seeking us.”
“If we seek the Buddha outside the mind, the Buddha changes into a devil.”
“If we seek the essence of every situation, if we seek to connect to God within our hearts, then we will find an opportunity there, to grow internally in wisdom in every trial we face.”
“If we seek the knowledge God, all other knowledge will be given to us.”
“If we seek the most happiness we can as individuals, it sort of bleeds into other people's lives.”
“If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual.”
“If we seek the real source of the dance, if we go to nature, we find that the dance of the future is the dance of the past, the dance of eternity, and has been and always will be the same... The movement of waves, of winds, of the earth is ever the same lasting harmony.”
Source: The Dance
“If we seek to be loved - if we expect to be loved - this cannot be accomplished; we will be dependent and grasping not genuinely loving.”
Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
“If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.”
Source: Hercule Poirot's Christmas
“If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him.”
Source: The Voice of the Heart
“If we send industrialists to jail, we would be discouraging investment.”
“If we seriously contemplate life it appears an agony too great to be supported, but for the most part our minds gloss such things over & until the ice finally lets us through we skate about merrily enough. Most people, I'm convinced, don't think about life at all. They grab what they think they want and the subsequent consequences keep them busy in an endless chain till they're carried out feet first.”
“If we serve Jesus then every act & thought has meaning. Acts of kindness aren't just niceties, they become acts of worship.”
“If we serve our outer needs without allowing ourselves time for the person within, and especially if we ignore the inner voice that tells us to slow down or take a break, then at some point our health will begin to suffer.”
Source: Live Better: Meditation
“If we set our minds, we can achieve anything.”
“If we set our priority "the removal of all risk", we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.”
“If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of permanent blessings to the community. If on the contrary,... the Constitution is slighted, or explained away, upon every frivolous pretext, the future of government will be feeble, distracted and arbitrary. The rights of the subjects will be the sport of every party vicissitude. There will be no settled rule of conduct, but everything will fluctuate with the alternate prevalency of contending factions.”
“If we set the precedent of limiting the First Amendment, in order to protect the sensibilities of those who are offended by flag burning, what will we say the next time someone is offended by some other minority view, or by some other person's exercise of the freedom the Constitution is supposed to protect?”
“If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear.”
“If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.”