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• Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Nature, Immortality

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• However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Faith, Logical, Ends

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• People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

  Albert Bandura

  People, Challenges, Tasks

  Albert Bandura (1997). “Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies”, p.11, Cambridge University Press

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• Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn't be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dark, Definitions, Faces

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.184, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I go the way that Providence dictates with the assurance of a sleepwalker.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Way, Providence

  Speech, Munich, Germany, 15 Mar. 1936

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• No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Matter, Enough, Made

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “The Black Obelisk: A Novel”, p.197, Random House

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• For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.

  Henry Norris Russell

  Heaven, Earth, Venture

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• Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.

  Gustave de Molinari

  Government, Guarantees That, People

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• Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.

  Maya Angelou

  Art, Philosophy, Love Life

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• Our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the source of spiritual power that will give you and me the assurance that we have nothing to fear.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Spiritual, Jesus, Giving

  M. Russell Ballard (2001). “When Thou Art Converted: Continuing Our Search for Happiness”, Deseret Book Company

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• It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from itself. True geniuswill not impoverish, but will liberate, and add new sense. If a wise man should appear in our village, he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new consciousness of wealth, by opening their eyes to unobserved advantages; he would establish a sense of immovable equality, calm us with assurances that we could not be cheated; as every one would discern the checks and guarantees of condition.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1544, Delphi Classics

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• Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way for merit, that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties...

  Lord Chesterfield

  White, Way, Merit

  "Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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• Serve God, and God will take care of you. Submit to His will, trust in His grace, and resign yourself into His hands with the assurance that the Lord is well pleased with those that hope in His mercy.

  Gardiner Spring

  Hands, Grace, Care

  Gardiner Spring (1813). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.222

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• It is good to renew ourselves, from time to time, by closely examining the state of our souls, as if we had never done it before; for nothing tends more to the full assurance of faith, than to keep ourselves by this means in humility, and the exercise of all good works.

  John Wesley

  Mean, Humility, Exercise

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: A plain account of Christian perfection. The appeals to men of reason and religion. Principles of the Methodists, &c”, p.62

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• When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own

  George Muller

  Overcoming, Difficulty, Engaged

  George Muller (1996). “The Autobiography of George Muller”, p.91, Whitaker House

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• I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.

  John Wesley

  Trust, Taken, Law

  1738 Journal entry, 24 May.

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• For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble and necessary to the common weal, has no assurance that it will sustain him while he stands ready to practice it, or keep him out of the poorhouse when illness or age makes him idle.

  H. L. Mencken

  Country, Men, Practice

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• Assurance grows by repeated conflict, by our repeated experimental proof of the Lord's power and goodness to save; when we have been brought very low and helped, sorely wounded and healed, cast down and raised again, have given up all hope, and been suddenly snatched from danger, and placed in safety; and when these things have been repeated to us and in us a thousand times over, we begin to learn to trust simply to the word and power of God, beyond and against appearances: and this trust, when habitual and strong, bears the name of assurance; for even assurance has degrees.

  John Newton

  Strong, Names, Safety

  John Newton (2001). “The Voice of the Heart”, p.190, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life.

  John Piper

  Sweet, People, Needs

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• Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying "I am saved" is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Religious, Art, Prayer

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• If you think that the gospel is all about what we can do, that the practice of it is optional, and that conversion is simply something that anyone can choose at any time, then I'm concerned that you'll think of evangelism as nothing more than a sales job where the prospect is to be won over to sign on the dotted line by praying a prayer, followed by an assurance that he is the proud owner of salvation.

  Mark Dever

  Jobs, Prayer, Thinking

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• Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christ, Consequence

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• The assurance of every truth of Scripture is just the beauty of it. First because He has promised to do it; and God's promises are bonds that never yet were dishonored. Secondly, because Christ Jesus hath taken an oath that He will do it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Taken, Promise

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• Prayerless leaders are like ship captains without compasses; they can make their best guess at which direction to go, but they have no assurance they are heading the right way. Prayer keeps leaders focused on the one absolutely consistent factor in life - God.

  Henry Blackaby

  Prayer, Leader, Way

  Henry Blackaby, Henry T. Blackaby, Richard Blackaby (2011). “Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda”, p.221, B&H Publishing Group

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• Faith is the solid, unshakable confidence in God which is built upon assurance that He is faithful to His promises.

  David Jeremiah

  Faith, Christian, Promise

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