I Quotes
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“It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.”
“It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.”
Source: The Meditations
“It is possible to disagree without being divisive. Sadly, those who seem to scream the loudest about diversity and acceptance, want their own way so badly - they refuse to see the value and integrity in honest disagreement. They also fail to see the value and humanity of those they disagree with.”
“It is possible to do something, and to do something meticulously and completely with out creating a goal... all nature works this way.”
“It is possible to do the impossible when you trust in the God of all possibilities.”
Source: Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration
“It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.”
Source: With Malice Toward Some
“It is possible to educate children in the pleasures of food; and that doing so will set the children up for a lifetime of healthy eating. Feeding is learning.”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“It is possible to enjoy the Mozart concerto without being able to play the clarinet. In fact, you can learn to be an expert connoisseur of music without being able to play a note on any instrument. Of course, music would come to a halt if nobody ever learned to play it. But if everybody grew up thinking that music was synonymous with playing it, think how relatively impoverished many lives would be. Couldn't we learn to think of science in the same way?”
“It is possible to escape the complexities, challenges and pace of modern life. All we have to do is close our eyes and picture a quiet world where time moves slowly.”
Source: A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
“It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.”
Source: The School of Calvary
“It is possible to evangelize the world in this generation, if the Church will but do her duty. The trouble is not with the heathen. A dead Church will prevent it, if it is prevented. Why should it not be accomplished? God will have all men to be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth. The resources of the Church are boundless. Let the will of the Church be brought into line with the will of God, and nothing will be found to be impossible. May God grant it!”
“It is possible to exert a power over all things, all beings. But we must begin with intent always.”
“It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.”
“It is possible to experience the almost unconditioned dimensions even whilst living in the world we know, on the basis that we begin to sense-feel that we are not wholly with the physical world, almost as though we are alien in the world, and don't really belong there. There is a part of us in some other place we can't identify, that feels much more comfortable.”
Source: Not I, Not other than I: The Life And Teachings Of Russel Williams
“It is possible to express the laws of thermodynamics in the form of independent principles , deduced by induction from the facts of observation and experiment, without reference to any hypothesis as to the occult molecular operations with which the sensible phenomena may be conceived to be connected; and that course will be followed in the body of the present treatise. But, in giving a brief historical sketch of the progress of thermodynamics, the progress of the hypothesis of thermic molecular motions cannot be wholly separated from that of the purely inductive theory.”
Source: A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine
“It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).”
“It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
“It is possible to find more kindness in an executioner than in a clergyman. In other words, appearances and assumptions are always deceiving...”
“It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.”
Source: The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
“It is possible to get out of your own wat, but it requires deliberate attention and careful coordination of many moving parts.”
Source: Get Out of Your Own Way: A Skeptic's Guide to Growth and Fulfillment
“It is possible to get rid of the faults if one sees his own faults. The path of liberation (moksha) is to see one’s own faults and the worldly life is due to seeing faults of others.”
Source: The Flawless Vision
“It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.”
“It is possible to have a rather tranquil political atmosphere in any given nation. The secret is to put truth and honesty as the foundation of the political structure in that nation.”
“It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)
“It is possible to have less ambition and the same nostalgia.”
Source: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
“It is possible to have pardon without forgiveness-a murderer can be pardoned by the governor, but that does not mean the victim's family has forgiven him. And there can be forgiveness without pardon.”
“It is possible to have second chances. When I thought everything was lost, when I reached bottom and things didn't go my way, the universe gave me a second chance.”
“It is possible to have too much of a good thing.”
“It is possible to have words come to your mind, and still refrain from speaking them aloud.”
Source: Children of the Mind
“It is possible to hold a faith with enough confidence to believe that what should be rendered to God does not need to be decided and collected by Caesar.”
“It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.”
Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
“It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.”
“It is possible to imagine a world where tech serves us, and not the other way around, where the Big Tech monopolies are monopolies no longer, where our property in our personal data is protected, where our children are safe online, where our speech is free.”
“It is possible to indulge too great contempt for mere success, which is frequently attended with all the practical advantages of merit itself, and with several advantages that merit alone can never command.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion
“It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.”
“It is possible to know all about doctrine and yet not know Jesus. The soul is in danger when knowledge of doctrine outsteps intimate touch with Jesus. ....Have I a personal history with Jesus Christ? The one sign of discipleship is intimate connection with Him, a knowledge of Jesus Christ nothing can shake.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“It is possible to know the great truths without feeling the truth of them.”
Source: Home: A Novel
“It is possible to know when, at least basically, we please God. In fact, Joseph Smith taught that one of the conditions of genuine faith is to have "an actual knowledge that the course of life which [one] is pursuing is according to [God's] will."”
“It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.”
“It is possible to learn all about the mysteries of the Bible and never be affected by it in one's soul. Great knowledge is not enough.”
“It is possible to learn from a difficult experience without carrying the wound of it.”
“It is possible to learn more than your doctor knows, particularly in key areas that specifically apply to you. In fact, you may discover material that your doctor never saw, or did see and never investigated.”
“It is possible to live a life that looks like a work of art, where all your thoughts and actions flow from some settled place of experience and knowledge.”
“It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.”
“It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available-more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.”
“It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.”
“It Is possible to live in peace.”
“It is possible to live in this world and yet be above it! When Life’s upheavals stump you, choose to be non-complaining. The way to do this is to hold up what the iconic Tamizh poet Kannadasan has said, “Sothanai mel sothanai, pothum ada Saami” (Enough of the upheavals, O! Lord!!) and to embrace the legendary statesman Rajaji’s (in MS' voice) philosophy, “Kurai Ondrum Illai...!” (I have no complaints!). This is how you not only survive a tough time, this is how you thrive in it – experiencing the beauty of reality and the miracle of grace!”
“It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.”
“It is possible to live the Christian life just on the surface, knowing only enough to carry on an intelligent conversation in the church foyer with another equally uninformed believer, but when that happens you are vulnerable to the attack of the deceiver.”