James MartineauThe scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.
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When you doubt your own inspirations, you are not being honest. The truth is that you have a higher power telling you what to do, but you simply don’t believe it because of your sin nature. You could also be a small-minded person, which means that you think that your ideas are inferior. If that's the case, then people will later judge you as being immature and stupid.
Source: Tides Of The Spirit: Selections From The Writings Of James Martineau
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