I Quotes
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“It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.”
“It is the dawn of a new day, and it is raining cats and dogs.
Like a child, dance in the rain, and forget your sorrows.”
Source: Song of a Nature Lover
“It is the death of present art when it returns again and again to the model. Use of the model is only an intermediate stage in artistic development. Create out of a living spirituality to overcome everything naturalistic.”
Source: Art: An Introductory Reader
“It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.”
“It is the decisive people who have become civilised; it is the indecisive, otherwise called the higher sceptics, or the idealistic doubters, who have remained barbarians.”
“It is the deep urge to be one with the whole, the deep urge to dissolve I and thou into one unity. Love is that because we are separated from our own source, out of that separation the desire arises to fall back into the whole, to become one with it.”
“It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality.”
Source: The Kitchen Diaries
“It is the deepest desire of my heart to have every member of the Church worthy to enter the temple.”
“It is the deepest of wrongs I am driven to write…. And losing you was one of them.”
“It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.”
Source: The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932
“It is the definition of RIGHTS or LIBERTIES that is at the core of the issue. Real rights are concerned with what a man CAN DO. False rights are concerned with what a man CAN GET. True rights are concerned with the ability to live freely; false rights are concerned with the ability to get free things.”
“It is the definition of the word 'object' which destroys all religions.”
“It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.”
“It is the Democrats who get the economic engine of this economy moving forward again.”
“It is the denial of death that is partially responsible for people living empty, purposeless lives; for when you live as if you'll live forever, it becomes too easy to postpone the things you know that you must do.”
“It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.”
“It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world.”
“It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.”
“It is the despair of multitudes that our personal emotions are not subject to our own direct, willful manipulation. Instead, our emotions stubbornly remain at all times just automatic mental reactions to our perceptions. But therein lies the key to success. The quality, quantity and continuity of the emotions we continuously experience can definitely be influenced immensely by shifting those perceptions, and thus our choice of desires, through understanding the universal pursuit of happiness better.”
“It is the destiny of mint to be crushed.”
Source: Food
“It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.”
“It is the destiny of the mind to seek”
Source: Destiny of Shattered Dreams
“It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.”
“It is the destiny of the theater nearly everywhere and in every period to struggle even when it is flourishing.”
“It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.”
“It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.”
“It is the devil's masterstroke to get us to accuse him”
Source: Diana of the Crossways: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition
“It is the devotee's job to chant God's name. It is God's business to keep count.”
“It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the wishes and aspirations of the oppressed. Such was Steve Biko, a fitting product of his time; a proud representative of the re-awakening of a people.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.”
Source: Fruits of Solitude: In Reflections and Maxims Relating to the Conduct of Human Life
“It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation to profoundest purpose - contained in the psyche.”
Source: 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl
“It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.”
“It is the direct man who strikes sledgehammer blows, who penetrates the very marrow of a subject at every stroke and gets the meat out of a proposition, who does things.”
“It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.”
“It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.”
“It is the disaster of our entire existence that we live thus away from our soul, and stand in such dread of its slightest movement. Did we but allow it to smile frankly in its silence and its radiance, we should be already living an eternal life. We have only to think for an instant how much it succeeds in accomplishing during those rare moments when we knock off its chains – for it is our custom to enchain it as though it were distraught – what it does in love, for instance, for there we do permit it at times to approach the lattices of external life.”
Source: The Treasure of the Humble
“It is the discipline which is the soul of armies, as indeed the soul of power in all intelligence. Other things -- moral considerations, impulses of sentiment, and even natural excitement -- may lead men to great deed; but taken in the long run, and in all vicissitudes, an army is effective in proportion to its discipline.”
“It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!”
“It is the disease of not listening......
that I am troubled with.”
“It is the disposition of the thought that altered the nature of the thing.”
“It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.”
“It is the distance between us that creates language.”
Source: Or So I Say: Contentions & Confessions : a Happenstance Book
“It is the distinction between transpersonal and interpersonal relationships with deities which sets naturalistic polytheism apart from neopolytheism. Interpersonal relationships are between two or more persons and are focused upon individual perspectives. A transpersonal relationship extends beyond the individual perspective, transcending the distinctions of ego and personality. For example:
A neopolytheist has a close personal relationship with a modernized personification of Thor, to whom she prays to daily.
A naturalistic polytheist practices breathing as a sacrament which allows her to focus on life’s connection to the atmosphere, altering her perception of separateness, resulting in viewing the at-mosphere as a deity." - Glen Gordon, "Naturalism and the Gods”
Source: Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-Theistic Pagans
“It is the distinctive position of the Reformation with which, over against Rome, it stands or falls, that that which properly constitutes, defines, and perpetuates in unity a Church, is its doctrine, not its name or organization. While a Church retains its proper identity it retains of necessity its proper doctrine. Deserting its doctrine it loses its identity. The Church is not a body which bears its name like England, or America, which remain equally England and America, whether savage or civilized, Pagan or Christian, Monarchical or Republican. Its name is one which properly indicates its faith--and the faith changing, the Church loses its identity. Pagans may become Mohammedans, but then they are no longer Pagans--they are Mohammedans. Jews may become Christians, but then they are no longer Jews in religion. A Manichean man, or Manichean Church, might become Catholic, but then they would be Manichean no more. A Romish Church is Romish; a Pelagian Church is Pelagian; a Socinian Church is Socinian, though they call themselves Protestant, Evangelical, or Trinitarian. If the whole nominally Lutheran Church on earth should repudiate the Lutheran doctrine, that doctrine would remain as really Lutheran as it ever was. A man, or body of men, may cease to be Lutherans, but a doctrine which is Lutheran once, is Lutheran forever. Hence, now, as from the first, that is not a Lutheran Church, in the proper and historical sense, which cannot ex animo declare that it shares in the accord and unanimity with which each of the Doctrines of the Augsburg Confession was set forth.”
“It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart.”
Source: A Practical View
“It is the diversity of views that stems from different experiences and different backgrounds that lead to healthy decision-making and not the unified experiences and unified views.”
“It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable; that when the real world is shut out, it can create a world for itself, and with a necromantic power can conjure up glorious shapes and forms, and brilliant visions to make solitude populous, and irradiate the gloom of a dungeon.”
Source: The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more
“It is the Divine Presence that gives value to life. This Presence is the source of all peace, all joy, all security. Find this Presence in yourself and all your difficulties will disappear.”
“It is the divine will power that exists in the Cosmic consciousness that supports our decisions despite the Earthly man-made hurdles and difficulties.”
Source: Enter Heaven