Assurance Quote by Joseph Glanvill Download Open image “Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.” — Joseph Glanvill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Assurance Confidence Discouraging Pretence Pretension Raises
“[W]e have an automatic tendency to pay attention to or seek out information that is in agreement with (confirms) our preconceptions, and to ignore,… — Wadsworth Publishing Copy Share Image
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Who really benefits from discouragement? More often than not, encouragement is exactly what is needed. — Tony Dungy Copy Share Image
In life, an abundance of confidence gives us higher motivation, persistence, and optimism and can allow us to accomplish things we otherwise might not… — Whitney Tilson Copy Share Image
When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future. — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“We are all of us not merely liable to fear, we are also prone to be afraid of being afraid, and the conquering of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance… — Emily Blackwell Copy Share Image
Promptings for us to do good come from the Holy Ghost. These promptings nudge us further along the straight and narrow path of discipleship.… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
That though we are certain ofmany things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remainsthe possibility of our being mistaken in all… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
The union of a sect within itself is a pitiful charity; it's no concord of Christians, but a conspiracy against Christ; and they that… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
The woman in us still prosecutes a deceit like that begun in the garden. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
It may not be impossible, but that our Faculties may be so construed, as always to deceive us in the things we judge most… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
There is nothing in words and styles out suitableness that makes them acceptable and effective. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
They that never peeped beyond the common belief in which their easy understandings were at first indoctrinated are strongly assured of the truth of… — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a continuation of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When God overcomes our difficulties for us, we have the assurance that we are engaged in His work and not our own — George Muller Copy Share Image
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
There are believers who by God's grace, have climbed the mountains of full assurance and near communion, their place is with the eagle in… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window. — Alan Cox Copy Share Image
Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
We have a commitment to serve our Lord. We have an assurance that the cause is just and worthy. But, above all, we have… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
“Out of all its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not rest, believer, until you have full assurance of your interest in Jesus. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
