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If religion, instead of being the manifestation of a spiritual ideal, gives prominence to scriptures and external rites, then does it disturb the peace more than anything else.

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.

If revival is being withheld from us it is because some idol remains still enthroned; because we still insist in placing our reliance in human schemes; because we still refuse to face the unchangeable truth that It is not by might, but by My Spirit.

If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims.

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.

If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the Sacraments...?

If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going ?

If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.

If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained?

If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.

If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action.

If the Koran is the soul of Islam, then perhaps the institution of the Muslim family might be described as its body.

If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is concerning missions. If there be anything about which we cannot tolerate lukewarmness,it is the matter of sending the gospel to a dying world.

If there be not a religious element in the relations of men, such relations are miserable and doomed to ruin.

If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

If there is a God, it is inconceivable that he would be concerned about my day to day affairs.

If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.

If the resurrection of Jesus cannot be believed except by assenting to the fantastic descriptions included in the Gospels, then Christianity is doomed. For that view of resurrection is not believable, and if that is all there is, then Christianity, which depends upon the truth and authenticity of Jesus' resurrection, also is not believable.

If there really is a God who created the entire universe with all of its glories, and He decides to deliver a message to humanity, He will not use, as His messenger, a person on cable TV with a bad hairstyle.

If the religious spirit be ever mentioned in any historical narration, we are sure to meet afterwards with a detail of the miseries which attend it. And no period of time can be happier or more prosperous, than those in which it is never regarded or heard of.

If there was not one man Adam and one woman Eve, and a literal event of the one man Adam taking the fruit in rebellion and thus bringing sin and death into world, then one may as well throw the rest of the Bible away.

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.

If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.

If things are going well, religion and legislation are beneficial; if not, they are of no avail.

If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now!

If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality.

If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity.

If we could only put God first, maybe this ugly trend could one day be reversed.

If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good.

If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate.

If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide.

If we lose the spirit of 'go,' we have lost the very Christian spirit itself. A disobedient church will become a dead church. It will die of heart failure.

If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifying, a shared delusion, as adults?

If, when we compare two versions of a story, the second known to be a retelling of the first, and find that the second has more of a miraculous element, we may reasonably conclude we have legendary (or midrashic or whatever) embellishment. The tale has grown in the telling. This sort of comparison is common in extrabiblical research and no one holds that it cannot properly indicate legend formation there.

If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us.

If you are a Christian, you are in danger. If you decided to abandon your faith and become an atheist, you also are to be liquidated according to their concept. You are in danger if you decide to become a Muslim. It is not going to save you anyway because they believe traditional Islam is hostile to their goals.

If you are facing trouble right now, don't ask, “Why me?” Instead ask, “What do you want me to learn?” Then trust God and keep on doing what's right.

If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, wherever you are.

If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go

If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.

If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

If you hate gay marriage, then don't marry a gay person.

If you ignore every single thing Jesus told you to do, you are just auditing. You're not a Christian.

If you are serious about changing your life, you are going to have to get into the Bible. You need to read it, study it, memorize it, meditate on it, and apply it.

If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you is guaranteed; but in the way He chooses, not the way you choose, and at the moment He desires, not the moment you desire.

If you take care of the little things, the big things take care of themselves.

If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before.

If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.