Quotes on Ifs

If love is not married to wisdom (or if goodness is not married to truth), it cannot accomplish anything.

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.

We cannot be Christians part-time. If Christ is at the center of our lives, he is present in all that we do.

If you have a problem with people living their lives and being authentically who they are, you really should go and do some soul-searching.

Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don't underestimate me I won't underestimate you.

If you want to be successful, you have to jump, there's no way around it. When you jump, I can assure you that your parachute will not open right away. But if you do not jump, your parachute will never open. If you're safe, you'll never soar!

If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered.

I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.

Dear young people, Jesus gives us life, life in abundance. If we are close to him we will have joy in our hearts and a smile on our face.

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.

The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

If there's even one thing we can do - even one life we can save - we have an obligation to try

If you spend too much time learning the 'tricks' of the trade, you may not learn the trade. There are no shortcuts. If you're working on finding a short cut, the easy way, you're not working hard enough on the fundamentals. You may get away with it for a spell, but there is no substitute for the basics. And the first basic is good, old fashioned hard work.

What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it.

If we want to find happiness, let's stop thinking about gratitude or ingratitude and give for the inner joy of giving.

Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard part of writing isn't the writing; it's the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?

I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

Now, if you want to get rich, you have only to produce a product or service that will give people greater use value than the price you charge for it. How rich you get will be determined by the number of people to whom you can sell the product or service.

If you are clear where you are going and you take several steps in that direction every day, you eventually have to get there. If I head north out of Santa Barbara and take five steps a day, eventually I have to end up in San Francisco. So decide what you want, write it down, review it constantly, and each day do something that moves you toward those goals.

One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in theory makes sense in life.

If you have a clear mind . . . you won't have to search for direction. Direction will come to you.