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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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"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."
"I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty."
"The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation."
"The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting."
"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."
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
"Mix a conviction with a man and something happens."
"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."
"When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction."
"If the Lord is for you, which He unquestionably is, who else other than yourself would dare to stop you from proclaiming your true destiny?"
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"You can't memorize poetry and stay a fake. Sooner or later, you start to understand what these poets are saying, and it makes you feel life has something quite special, with certain layers of meaning to it."
"But love doesn't control, and I suppose that's why it's the ultimate risk. In the end, we have to hope the person we're giving our heart to won't break it, and be willing to forgive them when they do, even as they will forgive us. Real love stories don't have dictators, they have participants. Love is an ever-changing, complicated, choose-your-own adventure narrative that offers the world but guarantees nothing. When you climb a mountain or sail an ocean, you're rewarded for staying in control. Perhaps that's another reason true intimacy is so frightening. It's the one thing we all want, and must give up control to get."
"Life no longer felt meaningless. It felt stressful and terrifying, but it definitely didn't feel meaningless."
"Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life."
"Perhaps one of the reasons I've avoided standing on the point toward the horizon is the second you stand up and point toward a horizon, you realize how much there is to lose."
"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."
"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."
"All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him."
"Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment."
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