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I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe m...

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I may have faults but being wrong ain't one of them.

(Conviction) is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can ...

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The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a c...

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The person who hurt you--who raped you or killed your family--is also here. If you are still angry a...

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If I tell some one that I love him – as I may have told a hundred others – my words will convey noth...

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And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the...

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A man can believe in a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational a...

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Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betr...

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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice...

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rush of pine scent (once upon a time),the unlicensed convictionthere ought to be another wayof sayin...

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Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that...

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my su...

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Belief is better than anything else and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody...

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Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of s...

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The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is heal...

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Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it and therefore makes m...

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Those who serve a cause are not those who love that cause. They are those who love the life which ha...

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The crowd, in fact, is composed of individuals; it must therefore be in every man's power to become ...

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Genuine blasphemy genuine in spirit and not purely verbal is the product of partial belief and is...

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What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its valu...

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in...

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Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of...

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The best lack all conviction while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your ...

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It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Conviction, then, is no part of a sinner’s salvation—but the clear practical knowledge of the fact t...

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Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position o...

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Every man wherever he goes is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with hi...

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Man seeks to excuse himself of sin, but God seeks to convict him of it and to save him from it. Sin ...

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The very ones whose social pressure cause you to compromise will despise you for it. They probably r...

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God often gives us an inner conviction or prompting to confirm which way He wants us to go. This pro...

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Anyone who has genuinely seen God is deeply convicted of his or her own sin.

It is the Holy Spirit who brings about conviction [of sin] . . .repentance cannot take place unless ...

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When comfort and ease and pleasure are put ahead of duty and conviction, progress is always set back...

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Man seeks to excuse himself of sin, but God seeks to convict him of it and to save him from it. Sin ...

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The very ones whose social pressure cause you to compromise will despise you for it. They probably r...

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God often gives us an inner conviction or prompting to confirm which way He wants us to go. This pro...

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Anyone who has genuinely seen God is deeply convicted of his or her own sin.

It is the Holy Spirit who brings about conviction [of sin] . . .repentance cannot take place unless ...

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When comfort and ease and pleasure are put ahead of duty and conviction, progress is always set back...

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Man seeks to excuse himself of sin, but God seeks to convict him of it and to save him from it. Sin ...

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The very ones whose social pressure cause you to compromise will despise you for it. They probably r...

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God often gives us an inner conviction or prompting to confirm which way He wants us to go. This pro...

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Anyone who has genuinely seen God is deeply convicted of his or her own sin.

It is the Holy Spirit who brings about conviction [of sin] . . .repentance cannot take place unless ...

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When comfort and ease and pleasure are put ahead of duty and conviction, progress is always set back...

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Man seeks to excuse himself of sin, but God seeks to convict him of it and to save him from it. Sin ...

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The very ones whose social pressure cause you to compromise will despise you for it. They probably r...

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God often gives us an inner conviction or prompting to confirm which way He wants us to go. This pro...

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Anyone who has genuinely seen God is deeply convicted of his or her own sin.

It is the Holy Spirit who brings about conviction [of sin] . . .repentance cannot take place unless ...

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When comfort and ease and pleasure are put ahead of duty and conviction, progress is always set back...

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Man seeks to excuse himself of sin, but God seeks to convict him of it and to save him from it. Sin ...

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The very ones whose social pressure cause you to compromise will despise you for it. They probably r...

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God often gives us an inner conviction or prompting to confirm which way He wants us to go. This pro...

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Anyone who has genuinely seen God is deeply convicted of his or her own sin.

It is the Holy Spirit who brings about conviction [of sin] . . .repentance cannot take place unless ...

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When comfort and ease and pleasure are put ahead of duty and conviction, progress is always set back...

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Man seeks to excuse himself of sin, but God seeks to convict him of it and to save him from it. Sin ...

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The very ones whose social pressure cause you to compromise will despise you for it. They probably r...

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God often gives us an inner conviction or prompting to confirm which way He wants us to go. This pro...

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Anyone who has genuinely seen God is deeply convicted of his or her own sin.

It is the Holy Spirit who brings about conviction [of sin] . . .repentance cannot take place unless ...

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When comfort and ease and pleasure are put ahead of duty and conviction, progress is always set back...

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Man seeks to excuse himself of sin, but God seeks to convict him of it and to save him from it. Sin ...

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The very ones whose social pressure cause you to compromise will despise you for it. They probably r...

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God often gives us an inner conviction or prompting to confirm which way He wants us to go. This pro...

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Anyone who has genuinely seen God is deeply convicted of his or her own sin.

It is the Holy Spirit who brings about conviction [of sin] . . .repentance cannot take place unless ...

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When comfort and ease and pleasure are put ahead of duty and conviction, progress is always set back...

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Man seeks to excuse himself of sin, but God seeks to convict him of it and to save him from it. Sin ...

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The very ones whose social pressure cause you to compromise will despise you for it. They probably r...

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God often gives us an inner conviction or prompting to confirm which way He wants us to go. This pro...

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Anyone who has genuinely seen God is deeply convicted of his or her own sin.

It is the Holy Spirit who brings about conviction [of sin] . . .repentance cannot take place unless ...

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When comfort and ease and pleasure are put ahead of duty and conviction, progress is always set back...

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God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out air-quality. He knew ...

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As he once wrote of Kipling, his own enduring influence can be measured by a number of terms and phr...

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Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

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Christopher HitchensFor the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protecte...

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I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

There was this tendency to drift. And yet  when she thought about it, what did she really want to do...

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What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep kn...

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It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have 'something worth fighting for' t...

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For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attai...

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The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ...

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Let our voices be heard. I hope they will not be shrill voices, but, I hope we shall speak with such...

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Penetrating so many secrets we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless ...

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Characters carrying the playwright's disapproval is a un-Shakespearian burden.

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Harold BloomThe Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

He may have as strong a sense of what would be right, as you can have, without being so equal under ...

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I believe in the gods. Or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that the...

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