#convict

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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We must come to the Bible with the purpose of self-exposure consciously in mind. I suspect not many people make more than a token stab in that direction. It's extremely hard work. It makes Bible study alternately convicting and reassuring, painful and soothing, puzzling and calming, and sometimes dull - but not for long if our purpose is to see ourselves better. ↗

— Larry Crabb

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I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart. ↗

— Jim Butcher

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I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime. ↗

— Marcia Wallace

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Being a sex symbol was rather like being a convict. ↗

— Raquel Welch

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It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination. ↗

— Adam Weishaupt

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The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history. ↗

— Viktor Yushchenko

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My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

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Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

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