"Her innocence is like naivety mixed with confidence."
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
- Charles Bukowski
"I like that he oozes confidence, too much so sometimes. I like that he's fiercely loyal, intensely protective, and loves with every fiber of his being. I like that he never fakes his actions or his emotions-what you see is literally what you get. But most of all, I like, no, I love that he loves me."
"The exhortation of the apostle to make fast one's own call is here interpreted as a duty to attain certainty of one's own election and justification in the daily struggle of life in the place of the humble sinners to whom Luther promises grace if they trust themselves to God in penitent faith are bred those self- confident saints whom we can rediscover in the hard Puritan merchants of the heroic age of capitalism and in isolated instances down to the present On the other hand, in order to attain that self-confidence intense worldly activity is recommended as the most suitable means. It and it alone disperses religious doubts and gives the certainty of grace."
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"So far as predestination was not reinterpreted, toned down, or fundamentally abandoned." two principal, mutually connected, types of pastoral advice appear. On the one hand it is held to be an absolute duty to consider oneself chosen, and to combat all doubts as temptations of the devil, since lack of self confidence is the result of insufficient faith, hence of imperfect grace"
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You just haven't noticed yourself. You're changing little by little, definitely. Because when you go back and forth between being confident and being weak, doesn't that mean you can see things from a different angle? Change can only arise from fluctuations, right? That's why going back and forth between confidence and weakness, if you're shifting then you're changing, I think. Like that, little by little, everyone is changing probably. If you want to change then isn't it good to continue shifting? If you shift a lot you might discover something new that you didn't notice before.
"If a child identifies with his parents overprotective attitude, she will live her life in fear, doomed to being an underachiever. If she is unable to take risks out of fear of getting hurt, she will never experience the joy of accomplishment and the pride of reaching her potential. This will inevitably cause her to feel like a failure and to suffer from Iow self-esteem. When parents transmit a lack of confidence in their children's ability to get along in the world, or constantly warn them of how people are untrustworthy, they often create a self-fulfilling prophecy in which the child grows up overwhelmed with insecurity or expecting people to disappoint, hurt and take advantage of her."
