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"The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it's translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves."
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"Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for."
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"Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination."
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"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets."
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"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."
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"I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't."
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"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."
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"Our consciences are littered like an old attic with the junk of sheer conviction."
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"Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win."
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"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
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"There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states."
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"God chose to deliberately venture into and intentionally occupy depths far below and infinitely beyond that which any human has ever descended, and then to raise Himself back up to glory from those horridly dark places. And I pray that we never miss the fact that Christmas is God's invitation for us to join Him in the rising."
Faith
"The greatest imagination in all of existence is one that would be able to take 'nothing' and imagine 'something' from 'nothing.' And that is God."
Creation
"If I give with the motive to get, regardless of the degree to which that motive besets me, I will walk away impoverished and I will leave those to whom I have given just as impoverished as I have now found myself."
Generosity
"With God, the fear of failure is slain cold by success that is already hot on the way."
Success
"Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I'm touching, so I'd better start paying attention to what I'm touching."
Influence
"My first mistake is to humanize God. My second mistake is to hold those wretched human characteristics up against all of the majestic things that I sense God should be. The blatant discrepancy which is certain to ensue then allows me to not only justify my rejection of Him, it grants me unbridled permission to discount His existence altogether. And that third and final mistake is without a doubt the most costly of all."
Doubt
"I don't necessarily sit around inviting life to knock me down, but when it does I don't wait around for an invitation to stand back up either."
Resilience
"Too often the spotlight that highlights our successes burns out quickly, while the spotlight that scrutinizes our failures is a long-life bulb."
Success
"If we limit love to being nothing more than a feeling, we have no real feeling for what love is."
Love
"In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow that yesterday would have killed had I had my way."
Time
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