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"A man convinced against his will, stands opposed ever still. A man convinced he is right, gives the effort twice the fight."
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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."

"The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting."

"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."

"The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions - not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation but simply because these are what one believes."

"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."
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"Go to where you do not know what you do not know. That is where you will find all your opportunities."

"Everyone in your life gives you something. The bad ones give you experience, the worst ones a lesson; the good ones give you memories, the best ones, joy."

"I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge."

"Committing to a goal does not always bring action, yet committing to an action will invariably bring you to your goal."

"Though I can make a friend in an hour, it will take a lifetime to cultivate a friendship."
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