Quotes on Ifs

If you only ever did the things you don’t want to do, you’d have everything you’ve ever wanted.

If you do something for someone else, never remember. If someone does something for you, never forget.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you're solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion

I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is love.

If we can cultivate a concern for others, keeping in mind the oneness of humanity, we can build a more compassionate world.

If a work of art or a new style disturbs you, then it is probably good work. If you hate it, it is probably great.

But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks.

The key to faith is love. We believe only if we love. Trust is the middle term; only if we love, do we trust; and only if we trust, do we believe.

Know that when you seek anything of your own, you will never find God, because you do not seek God purely. You are seeking something along with God, and you are acting just as if you were to make a candle out of God in order to look for something with it. Once one finds the things one is looking for, one throws the candle away. This is what you are doing.

Your persistent longing is your persistent voice. But when love grows cold, the heart grows silent. Burning love is the outcry of the heart! If you are filled with longing all the time, you will keep crying out, and if your love perseveres, your cry will be heard without fail.

That's the nice thing about this job. You get to quote yourself shamelessly. If you don't, Larry Speakes will.

It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

If we could imagine such a man, that is a man who could invent the fly and send him out on his mission and furnish him with his orders: Depart into the uttermost corners of the earth and, diligently do your appointed work. Persecute the sick child, settle upon its eyes, its face, its hands, and gnaw and pester and sting, worry and fret and madden the worn and tried mother who watches by the child and humbly prays for mercy and relief with the pathetic faith of the deceived and the unteachable.

If you say, Well, OK, I don't believe in God. There's no evidence of God, then you're missing the stars in the sky and you're missing the sunrises and sunsets and you're missing the fact that bees pollinate all these crops and keep us alive and the way that everything seems to work together. Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design.

If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have a self-centredness problem.

A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.

We need to have a little humor in our lives. .If the time ever comes when we can't smile at ourselves, it will be a sad time.