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"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."
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"I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own."
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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."
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"Painting is a faith and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion."
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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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"Mix a conviction with a man and something happens."
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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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"We tend to listen to the people who believe in their own words as opposed to those who don't. When we feel their conviction, they earn our buy-in."
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"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library."
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"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
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"Constant repetition carries conviction."
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"Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority spending time with other believers is."
Fellowship
"Author Toni Morrison swats aside other possible sources of her success and says that the ONLY reason she is a great writer is because when she walked into a room as a child her father's face lit up."
Parenting
"The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us."
Meaning
"More than a half million books, all of them smelling like dust and ink, two terrible smells that blend mystically to make something beautiful. Powells is another church to me, a paperback sort of heaven."
Reading
"At the time, I didn't know what forgiveness meant. I wouldn't really know what forgiveness meant for another year, until my pastor, Rick McKinley, happened to spell it out in a sermon. He said that when you forgive, you bear the burden somebody has given you without holding them accountable."
Forgiveness
"I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me."
Religion
"I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human."
Humanity
"It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless."
Mindset
"The same principles that make up a good story also make up a good life."
Creativity
"If you dont love somebody, it gets annoying if they tell you what to do or what to feel. When you love them, you get pleasure from their pleasure nad it makes it easy to serve. I didnt love God because i didnt know God. universe is not effected by time. Light exists outside of time.. It is still a mystery to physicists."
Faith
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