I Quotes
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“It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.”
“It is the holiness of our Lord's heart that fills the New Testament full and makes it the unparalleled and unapproachable Book that it is.”
Source: The Walk, Conversation and Character of Jesus Christ Our Lord
“It is the Holy Ghost in us that is everything, and the Father is willing to bestow Him upon the weakest if he will only ask in the spirit of implicit faith and entire self-surrender. My cry these days is for a Pentecost, first on myself and my missionary brethren, and then on the native Church, and then on the heathen at large.”
“It is the Holy Spirit—the third Person of the Trinity—who equips and empowers us, guides us and strengthens us for the battles we will face, both the ones of today and the ones of tomorrow.”
Source: Conquer Your Deliverance: How to Live a Life of Total Freedom
“It is the Holy Spirit who brings about conviction [of sin] . . .repentance cannot take place unless first there is a movement of the Holy Spirit in the heart and mind.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.”
“It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.”
“It is the home which produces the nursery stock of new generations. I hope that you mothers will realize that when all is said and done, you have no more compelling responsibility, nor any laden with greater rewards, than the nurture you give your children in an environment of security, peace, companionship, love and motivation to grow and do well.”
“It is the honey which makes us cruel enough to ignore the death of a bee”
“It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.”
“It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Earth will ... make human life forever unkillable, removing it from the endangered species list, where it now stands on a fragile Earth overarmed with nuclear weapons. Second, the opening of virtually unlimited new land areas in space will reduce territorial pressures and therefore diminish warfare on Earth itself.”
“It is the hopelessness of the battle that awakens the passion of the warrior.”
“It is the horrific crime that seems to be accepted among many Arab societies, conveniently coined ‘honour killing.’ This must be the most contradictory term I have ever come across for what is honourable about cold-blooded murder? Just like the heinous crime the term itself is gravely flawed.”
Source: The Opposite of Indifference: A Collection of Commentaries
“It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.”
Source: Cannery Row
“It is the hour to rend thy chains, The blossom time of souls.”
Source: America the Beautiful: And Other Poems
“It is the house of my dreams. My Tuscan dream! [Every Italophile's dream]”
Source: Dreams of Tuscany
“IT is the huge and expensive investment in most of the organizations, whether it is “planning,” “performance,” “process,” “people,” “information,” or “innovation.”
Source: Digital Maturity: Take a Journey of a Thousand Miles from Functioning to Delight
“It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance.”
“It is the human ego that hinders us from seeing the true truth. Ego which states that humans are the pinnacle of all knowledge. However, the same knowledge that we glorify is unable to provide us with an answer to the true nature of truth. There is no single theory that can prove that the existence of essential truth is born and comes from human intelligence.”
“It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before,”
Source: Narration: Four Lectures by Gertrude Stein
“It is the human nature to love one’s country without any specific reason, despite it having acquired a bad reputation in the world.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.”
“It is the human race, not the world, that desperately needs to be changed.”
“It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour's extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door.”
“It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for mere reason to kill.”
“It is the hypocrisy of this society, which lets a man laugh but not cry.”
“It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.”
“It is the 'ideologies' that drive us to extreme limits, not the commodities.”
“It is the ignorant person who seeks his or her own ends at the expense of the greater whole. It is the ignorant person, therefore, who is the selfish person. The truly wise person is never selfish.”
“It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.”
“It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.”
“It is the illusion of magic and the magic of illusion that we are primarily interested in- not the privy tricks or the key to the secrets themselves. We seek the bafflement, the contradictions, the amusements, and the innumerable emotions that ripple uneasily through the audience. It is not knowledge we are after, but mystery and disguises. We want to gaze at the impossible. We are hungry for surprises, astonishment. In short, we are looking for a true story, but one impossible to explain in all its complexity. When we discover that story, we shall have found- magic.”
“It is the image of God reflected in you that so enrages hell; it is this at which the demons hurl their mightiest weapons.”
Source: Daily Readings from The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare
“It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do with our self-preservation; and that, no doubt, is why the expression of it, the sound of its words, helps us to live our lives.”
Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
“It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.”
“It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.”
Source: Of Wolves and Men
“It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year.... Who believes in America more than the people who run down the gangplank and kiss the ground?”
Source: Homer & Langley: A Novel
“It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us.”
“It is the imperfections that make perfect so, embrace the flaws and see the beauty.”
“It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.”
Source: Countenance of truth: the United Nations and the Waldheim case
“It is the inalienable right of all to be happy.”
Source: History of woman suffrage
“It is the inalienable right of every man, woman, and child to wear khaki.”
Source: The official preppy handbook
“It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.”
“It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ... My work requires it - but I myself have no need or use for it - Perhaps once on a time I found isolation imperative - I think all chrysalides do - all embryos go for the underside of the leaf in the time of body-change preparing for the final reassertion -resurrection - the establishment of the entity. But now I've come up tot the outside of my casements.”
“It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of Christianity, to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race from whatever burden or oppression they may unjustly labor under.”
“It is the individual artist who must act courageously in an effort to grow.”
Source: Connecting: the art of Beth Ames Swartz
“It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.”
Source: Fry: Plays Three
“It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.”
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.”
“It is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is fro+m among such individuals that all human failures spring.”