Ifs Quotes (page 97)

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• powerful
• power
• giving

If any one should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I feel it could no otherwise be expressed than by making answer, ‘Because it was he; because it was I.’ There is, beyond what I am able to say, I know not what inexplicable and inevitable power that brought on this union. Michel de Montaigne

• water
• heart
• leaving

If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away. Jeanette Winterson

• can do
• doings
• you can do it

If you have to do it, you can do it. James M. Cain

• enough
• money
• wishes

[If] we wish to diminish the love of money which, we are told, is the root of all evil, the first step must be the creation of a system in which everyone has enough and no one has too much. Bertrand Russell

• wise
• him
• manly

If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing. Manly Hall

• attitude
• value
• energy

If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity. From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, we Fascists conclude that we have the right to create our own ideology and to enforce it with all the energy of which we are capable. Benito Mussolini

• knowledge
• free
• time

If you limit the search for truth and forbid men anywhere, in any way, to seek knowledge, you paralyze the vital force of truth itself. In the best sense of the word, Jesus was a radical. His religion has been so long identified with conservation -- often with conservatism of the obstinate and unyielding sort -- that it is almost startling for us sometimes to remember that all of the conservatism of his own times was against him; that it was the young, free, restless, sanguine, progressive... Phillips Brooks

• missing
• view
• hell

If you never go out on that limb, you're missing a hell of a view. Jodi Picoult

• lies
• wakes
• happenings

If it should happen you wake up and Armageddon has come, lie still. William Stafford

• death
• calm
• wind

If after every Tempest came such calms, may the winds blow til they have awakened Death William Shakespeare

• people
• fly
• real

If I could grow wings, I could fly. Only people can't grow wings," he say's. "Real or not real?"Real," I say. "But people don't need wings to survive."Mockingjays do. Suzanne Collins

• time
• rightly
• over

If you don't take the time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? Michael J. Fox

• humility
• understanding
• acceptance

If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating. Paulo Coelho

• gift
• saying
• true

If anyone is going to see the gospel as true and good, satanic blindness and natural deadness must be overcome by the power of God. This is why the Bible says that even though the gospel foolishness to many, yet 'to those who are called...Christ [is] the power of God and the wisdom of God' (1 Corinthians 1:24). The 'calling' is the merciful act of God to remove natural deadness and satanic blindness, so that we see Christ as true and good. The merciful act is itself a blood-bought gift of... John Piper

• disappointment
• personality
• expectation

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed. Anthony Burgess