I Quotes
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“If your faith ends when discomfort begins, you never had faith to begin with.”
“If your faith in reality is based on the belief that time moves in one direction only, the foundation of your faith will be shattered by the experience of the future.”
“If your faith is enduring, you will endure life.”
“If your faith is in experiences, anything that happens is likely to upset that faith.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“If your faith is not feeble, you not fail.”
“If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.”
“If your faith is strong enough, she'll be healed.' If I've heard that once, I've heard it a thousand times. The problem is, when someone tells you that, they're not asking you to put faith in the power of God; they're asking you to put faith in the power of your own faith. And I can't even pretend that my mustard-seed faith measures up to the promises of God.”
Source: Miracles from Heaven: A Little Girl, Her Journey to Heaven, and Her Amazing Story of Healing
“If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?”
Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About God: A
“If your faith isn't rooted in the Bible, it will wither like a plant pulled out of the soil.”
Source: The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World
“If your faith makes you feel inadequate, re-examine your relationship with your faith. Are you full of faith or are you fearful?”
“If your faith won't fit in the door that opens, then I argue do not walk through that door.”
“If your family - just because they're blood doesn't mean that they necessarily give you the best advice.”
“If your family has gotten used to having devices at the table, it can be difficult to break the cycle... Find a starting point that works for you and use it as an opportunity to reset the relationship between meals and devices.”
Source: The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better
“If your family or your people are looking over your shoulder, change your seat or push them away.”
“If your fancied god behaves and talks like a lunatic, could you be otherwise? Think. Let go silly beliefs. Be wise.”
“If your father is an air-conditioner repairman from Nebraska, its conceivable that you might become a CEO, but you can't imagine being the drama critic for the New York Times. So if you come from a background like that and you want to actually have a career which involves doing something noble in the world, what can you do? You can join the army. That's about it. Or you can work for the church. That explains a lot of the focus of right-wing populism. The right wing figured that out, that people want enough to survive and to do good.”
“If your father says 'Bark like a dog,' I say 'What breed, Your Honor?”
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora
“If your father, who is known for carrying around a belt, told you to read a book, you went and did it. I've never spanked my kid - I think because in my household you were afraid. If you did something wrong and got caught, you were getting spanked.”
“If your fear is talking to people, then go out and talk to people. You will find it just keeps getting easier and there's really nothing to be afraid of. However, I can tell you that if I stop for a month, it starts to seem scary again. So, the easiest way to fend off fear is to attack it, embrace it.”
“If your feet are firmly planted on the grount you'll never be able to dance.”
“If your fiancé tended to come sailing in windows without notice, you didn’t have extra time to run and gather up messes. She dropped everything into the hamper and stepped into a hot, steamy shower, soap with no cloying scent, just clean. Just her again. And her eyes shut while she was standing there. She’d slip down the shower wall and go to sleep there, but she was already getting stiff. She got out, delved into the medicine cabinet for a couple of Advil and chased them down with a glass of water. Clean, clear water. A miracle. She stood watching crystal liquid swirl down the drain and thought somehow she’d never asked herself how water got that clean. She splashed it up in her face, dried her Band-Aids with a towel And went and turned on her computer. Last thing. Last defining thing – on any day.-Lois Lane”
Source: Lois & Clark: A Superman Novel
“If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.”
“If your fire begins to flame, don't spray water on it, which most people do. Instead, just close your dampers and the fire will go out because fire must have oxygen.”
“If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.”
“If your first reaction is to feel insulted & belittled
by constructive criticism or the word no...
you may not have the best foundation in place
for starting or maintaining your own business.
Constructive criticism can help more than you might realize...
if you can put your ego aside and take the help from those that have the authority and knowledge to assist you.”
“If your first response is, 'I can't do this,' then that is exactly where God wants you to be.”
“If your first scene doesn't give you a hard on, throw it out!”
“If your first try doesn't work, just label it 'Beta Test”
“If your flirting strategy is indistinguishable from harassment, it's not everyone else that's the problem.”
“If your focus is always changing, expect confusion to be rampant on your team.”
“If your focus is on your failures, limitations, & fears, you've one sure destination. You'll get drowned. If not now, at the end of the day!”
Source: The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For continued success in leadership
“If your food is poison you will understand it.”
“If your franchise has been around for awhile you have to find ways to keep it fresh.”
“If your fridge is full this Christmas, use nature's refrigerator - your car!”
“If your friend goes to a far place, that far place comes close to you!”
“If your friend is critical [of your work], you have to have a very thick skin and a thick skin is something that only builds up after it's callused for awhile.”
“If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.”
Source: The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity
“If your friend really cared about you he wouldn't let you take such risks.”
Source: The Dead-Tossed Waves
“If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.”
“If your friend's friend's friend (whom you may not have even met) is obese, a smoker or a zealot of some kind then it is a lot more likely that you will be too.”
“If your friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 45 percent higher. ... If your friend's friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 25 percent higher. ... If your friend's friend's friend, someone you probably don't even know, is obese, your risk of obesity is 10 percent higher. It's only when you get to your friend's friend's friend's friends that there's no longer a relationship between that person's body size and your own body size.”
“If your friends never make you uncomfortable. You don't have friends. You have fans.”
“If your friends won't tell you the truth, who will?”
“If your fund doesn't last for the long term, how can you invest for the long term?”
Source: The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns
“If your fundamental is a man dying on the cross for his enemies, if the very heart of your self-image and your religion is a man praying for his enemies as he died for them, sacrificing for them, loving them - if that sinks into your heart of hearts, it's going to produce the kind of life that the early Christians produced. The most inclusive possible life out of the most exclusive possible claim - and that is this is the truth. But what is the truth? The truth is a God become weak, loving and dying for the people who opposed him, dying forgiving them.”
“If your future flashes before your eyes, the sad part is that you never made it past today.”
“If your future is important enough to save for, it’s important enough to be around for.”
Source: sciVive
“If your gaze is fixed on minutiae, then you abandon essentials, bewilderment will grip your spirit, and winning will be out of your reach.”
Source: Gorin no Sho & Dokkodo: Miyamoto Musashi
“If your gift becomes a burden to me, even if it's been given out of love, is it really better than nothing?”
“If your gig is not in an office for eight hours a day, its going to be somewhere. If you're a truck driver, you get on a road. If you're a musician, you go to where the people are going to show up and you take the gig. I enjoy it, so I don't and I'm not complaining. Its just the traveling can get to be a bit much.”