"If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself."

-- Lord Chesterfield

#Conviction Quotes #Convincing Quotes #Convince Quotes

“I often shoot with scissors in my eyes.”
“A lot of people on Capitol Hill don't want to talk to me.”
“The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.”
“Do you realize the weight of the one who has invited us to follow him? He is worthy of more than church attendance and casual association; he is worthy of total abandonment and supreme adoration.”

Source : David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.38, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.”
“I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.”
“Love is the strange attractor, the allurement that holds the Uni-verse together.”
“There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.”

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