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"Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct."
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"Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief, it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living."

"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."

"I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."

"The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool."

"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."

"We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must."

"I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect."

"When you lack the courage to publicly defend biblical truth, it is a clear testimony that you lack the Holy Spirit. The gift of the Holy Spirit is a gift of no fear."

"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."

"It is our beliefs, more than our experiences, that determine life's possibilities."
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"No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve."


"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."


"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."


"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five."


"I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil."
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