U Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with U. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Unless we filter all of our contemplation of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures through the person of Christ, the words are impenetrable. And as our first week’s study informed us, the person of Jesus is love. We will revisit this truth throughout the entirety of this book, because it is the key to every argument you face about LGBTQ+ issues.”
Source: Where True Love Is: An Affirming Devotional for LGBTQI+ Individuals and Their Allies
“Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.”
“Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.”
Source: John Calvin's Commentaries On Daniel 1- 6 (Annotated Edition)
“Unless we frankly recognize that Christ's birth and resurrection come forth from places of hopelessness and helplessness, we've not understood their meaning.”
Source: End of the Christian Life
“Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe”
Source: Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House
“Unless we have a Central Bank with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going to undergo the most severe and far reaching money panic in its history.”
“Unless we have a well-educated people, we're vulnerable on our national security.”
“Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.”
“Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.”
Source: A Voice in the Wind
“Unless we have that moment of chaos, followed by the emotional release of realization, nothing will be remembered.”
Source: Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories
“Unless we hear very strictly with great faith to the order of our Spiritual Master, we will not understand what is the mercy of Krishna and how it is coming upon us.”
“Unless we humans respect and protect the homes of all non-human living beings, we will never deserve to live in the houses we have built by occupying their living spaces!”
“Unless we immediately move to supporting People, Planet and Profit, we will never be able to reverse the tipping-point of no return. Business is abusing our natural resources, just for greater greedership. This will leave little for future generations.”
“Unless we improve our ability to provide a quality education for underprivileged kids, we're not going to really overcome in a massive way our past.”
“Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone else's idea of what need is.”
“Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.”
“Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.”
Source: The Liberal Imagination
“Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.”
“Unless we know history, we will have little understanding of how far we have come, how we got here, and what still needs to change to make America and the rest of the world more livable, humane, and democratic.”
“Unless we know ourselves and our history, and other people and their history, there is really no way that we can really have positive kinds of interaction where there is real understanding.”
“Unless we know people well, we sit around with our words and our minds starched, afraid of being ourselves for fear of wrinkling them.”
Source: What Makes Sammy Run?
“Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil.”
“Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.”
“Unless we learn from living, how are we going to keep from doing the same things- making the same mistakes, struggling with the same problems- week after week?”
Source: First Things First Every Day: Daily Reflections- Because Where You're Headed Is More Important Than How Fast You Get There
“Unless we learn how to humbly tell each other our giving stories, our churches will not learn to give.”
Source: The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving
“Unless we learn in our own personal relationships, as the ancient definition of heaven and hell indicates, to live for someone besides ourselves, how shall we as a nation ever learn to hear the cries of the starving in Ethiopia and the illiterate in Africa and the refugees in the Middle East and the war weary in Central America? What will become of a nation in this day and age that has no sense of community? What, indeed, will become of the planet? the warning of the wise is clear:
'In hell,' the Vietnamese write, 'the people have chopsticks but they are three feet long so they cannot reach their mouths. In Heaven, the chopsticks are the same length, but in heaven the people feed one another.' The message is no less new, no less important today.”
“Unless we learn the lesson of nonviolence fully, we shall never do away with the deadly feuds which have been the curse of the Frontier people.”
“Unless we learn the lesson of self-appreciation and practice it, we shall spend our lives imitating other people and deprecating ourselves.”
“Unless we learn to criticize friends, we shall never find true ones.”
“Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.”
Source: WordSong Poets
“Unless we look at a person and see the beauty there is in this person, we can contribute nothing to him. One does not help a person by discerning what is wrong, what is ugly, what is distorted. Christ looked at everyone he met, at the prostitute, at the thief, and saw the beauty hidden there. Perhaps it was distorted, perhaps damaged, but it was beauty none the less, and what he did was to call out this beauty.”
“Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.”
“Unless we love natural goods - sex, alcohol, food, money, success, power - in the way God intended, we become their slaves, as any addict can attest.”
“Unless we love ourselves, our hearts are as good as a black hole all the love in the world can’t fill.”
Source: Half a Cup of Sand and Sky
“Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.”
Source: Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works
“Unless we maintain correctional institutions of such character that they create respect for law and government instead of breeding resentment and a desire for revenge, we are meeting lawlessness with stupidity and making a travesty of justice.”
“Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'.”
“Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.”
“Unless we make revolutionary reforms, some day - in some unknown serra - some unknown Fidel Castro will rise up in Brazil.”
“Unless we make the change ourselves, nothing is going to change.”
“Unless we members of the Church do all we can to preserve the freedoms we have within the bounds of the laws of God, we will be held accountable.”
“unless we move beyond what’s behind us, we cannot reach out to what lies in front of us.”
“Unless we perform divine service with every willing act of our life, we never perform it at all.”
Source: The Crown of Wild Olive
“Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.”
Source: The Moral Discourses of Epictetus
“Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration, emotional turmoil, and other distorted states of consciousness. These imperfect states of mind in turn give rise to imperfect activities, and the seeds of suffering are ever planted in a steady flow.”
Source: The Path to Enlightenment
“Unless we practice
loving feelings toward
everyone we meet, day in,
day out, we're missing out
on the most joyous part of
life. If we can actually open
our hearts, there's no
difficulty in being happy.”
“Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day”
“Unless we proceed cautiously, there might well arise a few generations of mystics who conceive of the orgone metaphysically, divorced from non-living nature and who do not comprehend it from the standpoint of natural science. And it seems to me that we have more than enough mysticism as it is.”
“Unless we progress, we regress.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1959
“Unless we put heart and soul into our labor we but brutify our actions.”