I Quotes
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“It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot, but to fly from all appearance of evil (Prov. 5:8, I Thess. 5:22). The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance; he that will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit.”
“It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.”
Source: Autarkeia: Or, the Art of Divine Contentment: By Thomas Watson, ...
“It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams.”
Source: Mend My Broken Heart
“It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood, which has been transmitted by our ancestors to an ignorant people.”
“It is ourselves that we must spread under Christ's feet, not coats nor lifeless branches or shoots of trees.”
“It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.”
“It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.”
Source: Les Misérables
“It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is some unreconstructed Southerner, who persists in his regard for a certain terrain, a certain history, and a certain inherited way of living.”
“It is outrageous that at this time in our country, women are still not paid as much as men.”
“It is outrageous that the Queen has invited royal tyrants to celebrate her diamond jubilee.”
“It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.”
“It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.”
“It is outrageously foolish to dismiss relationships as “fluff” or “nice things to have.” God designed relationships to provide the central organizing experiences and the primary vehicle by which we learn to experience and respond to all of life.”
Source: Becoming a Face of Grace: Navigating Lasting Relationship with God and Others
“It is over life, throughout its unfolding, that power establishes its dominion; death is power's limit, the moment that escapes it; death becomes the most secret aspect of existence, the most private.”
Source: The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
“It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.”
“It is over, the Reich walls have collapsed, my generals have betrayed me and my army refuses to fight, this is the herr Doernitz! I only hope you can turn this around.”
“It is owing to our limitations that a thing appears to us as single and separate when in truth it is not a separate thing at all.”
Source: The Philosophy of Freedom: The Basis for a Modern World Conception
“It is pain that ages us, not years.”
Source: Bonnie Prudden's After Fifty Fitness Guide
“It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.”
“It is painful for me to see when criminal elements of all kinds fire from my weapon.”
“It is painful that some couples are in a dog-eat-dog situation. The unanimity displayed by barking dogs, despite their differences, is a good lesson.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live on and on, if only I do not have to remember too much. A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.”
Source: The Promised Land
“It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.”
Source: Middlemarch: Top Novelist Focus
“It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.”
Source: Rights of Man
“It is painful to comprehend how the mind becomes fixed little by little as time goes by. The mind is the executioner of reality, the slayer of the true; the mind is the destroyer of love.”
Source: Fundamentals of Gnostic Education: Gnosis, the Consciousness, and Learning How to Think
“It is painful to doubt the sincerity of those we love.”
“It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.”
“It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.”
“It is painful to reflect upon your failures knowing that you alone caused them.”
“It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.”
“It is painful to see someone do something we do with displeasure for pleasure.”
“It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.”
“It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory.”
“It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the 'good old days' when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy.”
“It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.”
Source: I am a Cat III
“It is paltry philosophy if in the old-fashioned way one lays down rules and principles in total disregard of moral values . As soon as these appear one regards them as exceptions, which gives them a certain scientific status, and thus makes them into rules. Or again one may appeal to genius , which is above all rules; which amounts to admitting that rules are not only made for idiots , but are idiotic in themselves.”
Source: On War
“It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful existence.”
Source: The Western Mind in Transition: An Eyewitness Story
“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.”
“It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.”
Source: Nikola Tesla: 100 Quotes on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Success
“It is pardonable for children to yell that they believe in fairies, but it is somehow sinister when the piping note shifts from the puerile to the senile.”
Source: Arguably: Selected Essays
“It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised.”
“It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.”
“It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.”
Source: The Remains of that Sweet Singer of The Temple, George Herbert ...
“It is part of a sailor's life to die well.”
“IT is part of business, and business is becoming IT.”
Source: Digital It: 100 Q&as
“It is part of God’s plans for His children to prosper, and in His Word, He graciously outlines the steps to attain His desired level of prosperity.”
Source: The Infallible Word of God: 365 Inspirational Quotes
“It is part of God's plan for us that Christ shall come to us in everyone; it is in their particular role that we must learn to know him. He may come as a little child, making enormous demands, giving enormous consolation. He may come as a stranger, so that we must give the hospitality to a stranger that we should like to give to Christ.”
“It is part of me; I could definitely be that if I wanted to, I just choose not to. I mean, I am an actress at my core, and I think we're all a little crazy.”
“It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.”
Source: The French Revolution: a History
“It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.”