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“The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“It is my conviction that there is perhaps no single factor more important in a spiritual home and in building spiritual strength in our children than the teaching and practice of prayer.”

Children Important Home Spiritual Prayer Practice Teaching Building Our Children Conviction Factors Spiritual Strength

Book:Women in today's world

Source: Women in today's world

“By practice and conviction formed, With ancient stubbornness ingrained, Although her body clung and swarmed, My own identity remained.”

Body My Own Practice Identity Ancient Conviction Stubbornness

Book:The collected poems of Yvor Winters

Source: The collected poems of Yvor Winters

“Just as you can practice three-word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.”

Writing Three Practice Conviction Sentences Breathe Zone Unshakable Three Words Time Zones

Author:Stanley Fish

“The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise: the carrying into practice of religious principles and beliefs and convictions.”

Firsts Belief Religious Opinion Principles Practice Exercise Conviction Amendments First Amendment Free Thought Free Opinion

Author:Alan Keyes

“Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregnant puts it, rather than as a philosophy, are less invested in our own practices. What we do is often less a matter of conviction than one of convenience. What we need to remember is that there is no need to apologize for that, even in the face of the most red-faced outrage.”

Needs Littles Matter Philosophy Remember Faces Practice Minutes Style Red Series Instinct Conviction Pregnant Apologizing Convenience Adjustment Outrage Reflexes Parenting Styles

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.”

Ifs Difficult Practice Understood Conviction Repentance Superstitions Offended

Book:The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works

Source: The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works

“We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party.”

Real Party Practice Path Worst Return Conviction Corruption Mexico Adversaries Authoritarianism Impunity

Author:Josefina Vazquez Mota

“At a personal level, as a Buddhist practitioner, I deliberately visualize and think about death in my daily practice. Death is not separated from our lives. Due to my research and thoughts about death, I have some guarantee and some conviction that it will be a positive experience.”

Thinking Levels Practice Our Lives Research Conviction Dues Buddhist Guarantees Positive Experiences

Author:Dalai Lama

“I went to extreme measures to achieve my goals, from strapping heavy sandbags on my ankles, hopping on one leg, up and down four flights of stairs at 5 am to practice my turns in front of the candle light when others are asleep. I felt like that I had climbed many tall mountains and made so many impossible dreams come true through sheer determination, perseverance, passion, self conviction and belief.”

“I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.”

Firsts Believe Given I Believe Enjoy Religious Practice Higher Conviction Our Society Amendments Estates Religious Love Fourteenth Amendment

Author:Frank Murphy

“I must honestly declare my conviction that, since the days of the Reformation, there never has been so much profession of religion without practice, so much talking about God without walking with Him, so much hearing God's words without doing them.”

Has Beens Talking Practice Walking Conviction Hearing Profession Honestly Reformation Hearing God

Book:Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

Source: Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

“Religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and, therefore, that all men should enjoy the fullest toleration in the exercise of religion according to the dictates of conscience, unpunished and unrestrained by the magistrate, unless under color of religion any man disturb the peace, the happiness, or safety of society, and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity toward each other.”

Source: The Writings of James Madison: 1769-1783