Broad paths are OPEN to every endeavour, and a sympathetic RECOGNITION is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the DIVINE SERVICES of a conviction of a consciousness.
Read MoreCampaigning for Congress is an ISSUE of CONVICTION, and there is no element of any personal GAIN in it.
Read MoreThe ethic of CONVICTION and the ethic of RESPONSIBILITY are not OPPOSITES. They are complementary to one ANOTHER.
Read MoreThe success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and INTELLECTUALLY, for they would be assuming a BURDEN though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the WAVE, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and CONQUEST by sacrifice.
Read MoreAs a pastor in a Protestant CHURCH, my whole MINISTRY centers on the conviction that by grace we are saved through FAITH. And it's not our faith that delivers us, as if believing something, anything at all were pleasing to GOD. It's the object of our faith - CHRIST's life, death, and resurrection - that saves us.
Read MoreMy aunt is the director of the acapella GROUP BLACK Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such PASSION and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the COURAGE to ask if I COULD join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.
Read MoreMisanthropy is born, I THINK, out of an ALMOST oppressive sense of LONELINESS, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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