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• If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Efficiency, Stability, Capitalist

  Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.

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• What is your assurance of salvation? The promise of God's Word. If God says it, that settles it, because God cannot lie. You can trust the promise of God's Word.

  Rick Warren

  Wisdom, Lying, Promise

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• We hurt people by being too busy. Too busy to notice their needs. Too busy to drop that note of comfort or encouragement or assurance of love. Too busy to listen when someone needs to talk. Too busy to care.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Encouragement, Hurt

  Billy Graham (2004). “The Enduring Classics of Billy Graham”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• The sense of repentance is better assurance of pardon than the testimony of an angel.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Angel, Repentance, Pardon

  Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.64

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• Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose?

  John Shelton Reed

  Writing, Mean, Phoenix

  John Shelton Reed (1993). “My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture”, p.5, University of Missouri Press

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• Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the inspirational preachers of Christian sunshine, who are able to pick you up and set you back on your feet and make you feel good for three or four days-until you fold up and collapse into despair. Self-confidence is a precious natural gift, a sign of health. But it is not the same thing as faith. Faith is much deeper, and it must be deep enough to subsist when we are weak, when we are sick, when our self-confidence is gone, when our self-respect is gone.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Spiritual, Sunshine

  Thomas Merton (2003). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.190, Shambhala Publications

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• I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our dreams.

  John Eccles

  Dream, Memories, Imagination

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• Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.

  Iris Murdoch

  Mean, Eye, Convince Us

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• I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.

  Rex Stout

  Mistake, Responsibility, Assuming

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• Meekness is calm confidence, settled assurance, and rest of the soul. It is the tranquil stillness of a soul that is at rest in Christ. It is the place of peace. Meekness springs from a heart of humility, radiating the fragrance of Christ.

  Matthew Henry

  Spring, Heart, Humility

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• The measure of self-assurance is how deeply and sincerely interested you are in others; the measure of insecurity is how much you try to impress them with you.

  Mark Goulston

  Self, Insecurity, Trying

  Mark Goulston (2015). “Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone”, p.63, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.

  J. William Fulbright

  Self, Curiosity, Atheism

  J. William Fulbright (2011). “The Arrogance of Power”, p.36, Random House

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• Even in our most diligent efforts to live the gospel, all of us will make mistakes, and all of us will sin. What a comforting assurance it is to know that through our Savior's redeeming sacrifice, we can be forgiven and made clean again.

  Ann M. Dibb

  Spiritual, Mistake, Sacrifice

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• The Holy Ghost is a comforter and a guide. But it is also a cleansing agent. That is why service in the kingdom is so crucial to enduring. When we are called to serve, we can pray for the Holy Ghost to be our companion with assurance it will come.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Agents, Kingdoms, Cleansing

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• But the sons of this world have not God; they have only each other, and they walk holding to each other and looking to one another for assurance like frightened children.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Children, Son, World

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• I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Perseverance, Age, Mature

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.174, Library of America

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• The Gospel comes in power and the Holy Spirit, with much assurance. If you call upon the name of the Lord, God will transform you on the inside, give you the shock of your life, and give you everlasting life on top of that.

  Ray Comfort

  Names, Giving, Spirit

  "Ray Comfort: The Evidence Bible". Interview with Craig von Buseck, www.cbn.com.

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• Faith is a principle of action. It is our willingness to believe in the Savior that unleashes His power in our lives. Faith is not a bulwark against tribulation, but an assurance that the Lord is overseeing all.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Believe, Principles, Action

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• When great assurance accompanies a bad undertaking, such is often mistaken for confiding sincerity by the world at large.

  Juvenal

  World, Sincerity, Mistaken

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• Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Understanding, Saying Yes, Way

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.167, A&C Black

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• Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it springs up amid tears and clouds--it is a reflection of the eternal sun--it is an assurance of calm--it is the sign of a great covenant between God and man--it is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Peace, Spring, Reflection

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• Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action

  Jonathan Edwards

  Self, Examination, Action

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829). “A treatise concerning religious affections. Five discourses on important subjects”, p.93

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• In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.

  Akhenaton

  Succeed, Endeavor, Undertakings

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• When the Lord instills hope and faith and peace and assurance in people, they can bring great things to pass. This, then, is often what we should look for when we ask for help-not a miracle to solve our problem for us, but a miracle inside, to help us come to the solution ourselves, with the Lord's help and the Lord's power.

  Gene R. Cook

  Adversity, People, Miracle

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• It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Book, Reading

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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