Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favou… — Elias Hicks

Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself.

Elias HicksClergyman · American · 1748 – 1830

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We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. — Robert Green Ingersoll
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