Assurance Quotes - Page 15

• It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Joy, Host, Stubbornness

  Michel de Montaigne (1995). “Four Essays”, Penguin Group USA

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• God of peace,
  you are at the center of my life,
  a strong refuge of peace
  in the whirlwind of my pain.
  I look to you for strength
  and a constant assurance of hope.

  Joyce Rupp

  Strong, Pain, Looks

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• For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings are possible. Romance makes the promise that no matter how bleak things sometimes look, in the end everything will turn out right and true love will triumph -- and in an uncertain world, that's very comforting.

  Leigh Michaels

  Romance, Comforting, Promise

  Leigh Michaels (2007). “On Writing Romance: How to Craft a Novel That Sells”, p.5, Writer's Digest Books

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• There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we ever did it before.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Two, Months, Wonder

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• That's the trouble with awards for a body of work. They always come at both a good time and a wrong time. Good because they tell you what you've been doing was worth the doing and wrong because they ought to come when you're young and excited and hungry for assurance that what you're doing is worth the doing.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Awards, Body, Good Times

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of us. Many of us are never granted this kind of assurance. Certitude is not the real substance of faith. Faith is a way of seeing things.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Real, Way, Substance

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• I will never compromise - I can now say with assurance at the age of 57 - with my libertarian and my revolutionary commitments; they'll have to kill me first. They can't buy me out. I'm just not interested in what they have to offer. I've managed to stick it out, and the thing that has been the most rescuing, the most redeeming, feature of my life that has kept me alive, that has kept me more or less single-minded about my commitment to libertarian ideals once I escaped the trap of Marxist-Leninism - a childhood trap, to be sure - has been consciousness.

  Murray Bookchin

  Commitment, Childhood, Age

  Interview with Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. October 1979.

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• The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and the mosque. Within those walls and along those stacks, I have found security and assurance.

  Maya Angelou

  Wall, Views, Church

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• What we look forward to, and the great promise of the gospel, is that whatever our inclinations are here, whatever our shortcomings are here, whatever the hindrances to our enjoying a fullness of joy here, we have the Lord's assurance for every one of us that those in due course will be removed. We just need to remain faithful.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Joy, Faithful, Promise

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.

  Bram Stoker

  Past, Safety

  Bram Stoker (2015). “Dracula”, p.38, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Be courteous to all, but personal with number of, and allow those couple be perfectly attempted ahead of you provide them with your self-assurance.

  George Washington

  Couple, Self, Numbers

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• Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery will grow more and more abject and ignoble as the differential birth rate, the deliberate encouragement of mendicancy and the failure of popular education produce a larger and larger mass of prehensile half-wits, and so make the demagogues more and more secure.

  H. L. Mencken

  Encouragement, Birth Rate, Democracy

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• You can see now with all the assurance that people have about the overall general management of the economy, they then ask more specific questions that we are able to answer.

  Thabo Mbeki

  People, Answers, Able

  Source: www.gov.za

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• The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games anymore. We don't have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore that sin in His body on the cross.

  Jerry Bridges

  Forgiveness, Jesus, Mean

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• You go in and meet the head of BBC One and get an assurance about not dumbing down. And then, of course a few months later, he's been replaced by someone you haven't met.

  John Cleese

  Down And, Months, Mets

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteousness and loving.

  C. S. Lewis

  Pain, Reality, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Problem of Pain”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

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• Do not rest, believer, until you have full assurance of your interest in Jesus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Interest, Believer

  Charles Spurgeon (2001). “Morning & Evening”, Whitaker House

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• [Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them apart from ordinary affairs and thoughts. Rituals need not be solemn, but they are formalized, stylized, extraordinary, and artificial. In the name of ritual, we can do anything. We can do astonishing acts. In the end, ritual gives us assurance about the unification of things.

  Barbara Myerhoff

  Reality, Names, Vocabulary

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• It will comfort us when we must wait in distress for the Savior's promised relief that He knows, from experience, how to heal and help us. The Book of Mormon gives us the certain assurance of His power to comfort. And faith in that power will give us patience as we pray and work and wait for help. He could have known how to succor us simply by revelation, but He chose to learn by His own personal experience.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Book, Giving, Waiting

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• Hiding behind such sacred terms as human rights and distributive justice, politicians and intellectuals alike have perpetrated a gargantuan ruse on humankind: they have convinced us that mass homogeneity is more essential for the betterment of society than is individual initiative, and they have adorned this dubious assumption with assurances that by leveling all distinctions between human beings, collective peace and unity will result as a matter of course, just as water runs downhill or the cart follows the ox.

  Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora

  Running, Rights, Justice

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• There is anything but an assurance of success, I have to be very clear about that.

  Angela Merkel

  Success, Clear

  "It didn't work before. So why is Ukraine seeking a new peace deal?" by Richard Allen Greene, www.cnn.com. February 10, 2015.

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• A youth with wings are the assurance of our nation's future. We must start to work right away and make progress so that; if one day Westerners leave their footprints on the moon, we shall place a Turkish one among those.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Moon, Wings, Progress

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• In the shadow of death he produces life, and though the senses are terrified, faith taking all for the best, is full of courage and assurance.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Faith, Courage, Shadow Of Death

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• How many, alas, of the precious saints of God must we shut out from being believers, if there is no faith but what amounts to assurance.... shall we say their faith went away in the departure of their assurance?

  William Gurnall

  Faith, Christian, Saint

  William Gurnall (1669). “The Christian in Compleat Armour, Or, A Treatise of the Saints War Against the Devil: Wherein a Discovery is Made of that Grand Enemy of God and His People, in His Policies, Power, Seat of His Empire, Wickedness, and Chief Design He Hath Against the Saints ...”, p.178

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• Have you felt, as I have, the impression to help someone only to find that what you were inspired to give was exactly what someone needed at that very moment? That is a wonderful assurance that God knows all of our needs and counts on us to fill the needs of others around us.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Giving, Needs, Helping

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