I Quotes
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“It is easy for us to love what we can see.”
“It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.”
Source: My Utmost for His Highest
“It is easy in adversity to despise death; he has real fortitude who dares to live and be wretched.”
“It is easy in ministry or in life, to begin to rely on acquired knowledge instead of fresh knowledge revealed. We must maintain our union with Him to enjoy fresh oil and then there is no old oil. The life of God or presence of God can't be stored, it has to be current. It is a well of life, continually outflowing.”
“It is easy in retrospect to see why he’d want to go. There are two women who are furious at him. To make one happy, he must take the subway across town and arrive on her doorstep. To make the other happy, he must wear for some infinitely long period of time a hair shirt woven out of her own hair.”
Source: Dept. of Speculation
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
“It is easy not to steal when one isn’t hungry.”
Source: Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison
“It is easy now for critics to claim that the work was poor; they haven't produced their own analyses or confronted any of the hard questions. For example, would they say that no technique beyond shouted questions could be used to interrogate a high-level terrorist leader, such as Osama bin Laden, who knows of planned attacks on the United States?”
“It is easy now to break the vows. It is even easier to part your ways if vows haven't been taken.”
“It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.”
“It is easy, out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, 'I couldn't help it; the way was set.' But think of the glory of the choice!”
Source: East of Eden
“It is easy out of laziness, out of weakness, to throw oneself into the lap of deity, saying, ‘I couldn’t help it; the way was set.’ But think of the glory of the choice! That makes a man a man. A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. There’s no godliness there.”
Source: East of Eden
“It is easy to accept a deal, but hard to refuse it.”
“It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.”
Source: The Four Loves
“It is easy to act as a Saturday morning quarterback and replay the game lost the night before. All of us seem to have better hindsight (the ability to see after the event what should have been done) than foresight”
Source: The road to somewhere: a guide for young men and women
“It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.”
Source: John Osborne Plays 1: Look Back in Anger; Epitaph for George Dillon; The World of Paul Slickey; Dejavu
“It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.”
“It is easy to be a good parent to a good child, but what makes a good parent, is dealing and being there for a difficult child, that is a real good parent!”
“It is easy to be a good person when times are good.”
“It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!”
“It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.”
“It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life.”
“It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.”
Source: The Life of Christ
“It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.”
“It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.”
“It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.”
Source: In Memory of My Feelings: A Selection of Poems
“It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.”
Source: The Fables of Aesop
“It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.”
“It is easy to be compassionate with other people's money”
“It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost.”
Source: Review of Austrian Economics, Volume 8
“It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others.”
Source: Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations
“It is easy to be grateful for a bonus; it is character to be grateful for a salary.”
“It is easy to be heavy: hard to be light.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“It is easy to be hopeful in the day when you can see the things you wish on.”
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God
“It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?”
Source: Anne
“It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series
“It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.”
Source: Movin' on Up
“It is easy to be intelligent, but it is very difficult to be wise because wisdom comes from experience.”
“It is easy to be just when our own inclinations do not oppose it.”
Source: Henrietta
“It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.”
“It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.”
“It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way. ... The problem is, in the second half of the twentieth century, we have gotten so good at living for tomorrow that most of us spend very little time in the present.”
Source: Are You the One for Me? ; Real Moments
“It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.”
“It is easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song, but the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is trouble, and it always comes with years, and the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through the tears.”
Source: Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)
“It is easy to be popular. It is not easy to be just.”
“It is easy to be proud & harsh & selfish - so easy. But we have been created for better things.”
“It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a stream to heaven, and to appear for God when no one else appears for Him.”
Source: The NIV Matthew Henry Commentary in One Volume: Based on the Broad Oak Edition
“It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.”
“It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream."”
Source: Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life