Quotes About Conviction

sooner or later you have to decide what you believe." It was a thing I'd always known but until recently had forgotten: that faith is a decision. In its most basic form, it is a choice.

Like all young people, she'd once harbored the unconscious conviction that the world had begun the day she was born. Time had disabused her of this notion. It was, she supposed, the fundamental difference between youth and age. She

Believe me," he said simply.

Having second thoughts, Taft?" "Sawyer doesn't have second thoughts!" Sadie-Grace insisted from the golf cart behind us, loyal to the bone. "Sometimes, she doesn't even have first thoughts!" Thank you, Sadie-Grace.

As tough as she is, she wants to believe in something.

knew where they were and was sure of it even before he

If you're going to spend your life standing on principle, you want to be sure everyone understands what the principle is.

You're pretty sure we're going to Yuma.

If something's just, I'll let myself be hacked to bits for it.

Hortense and Berthe nodded, as though profoundly impressed by the wisdom of their mother's pronouncements. She had long since convinced them of the absolute inferiority of men, whose sole function was to marry and to pay.

Dígame si tengo que ponerme de rodillas para conmoverle el corazón.

No hay palanca más poderosa que una creencia para mover las multitudes humanas; no en vano se dice que la religión liga y aprieta a los hombres

And you love Edgar, and Edgar loves you. All seems smooth and easy: where is the obstacle? Here! and here! replied Catherine, striking one hand on her forehead, and another on her breast: in whichever place the soul lives. In my soul and in my heart, I'm convinced I'm wrong!

Here! and here! replied Catherine, striking one hand on her forehead, and another on her breast. In whichever place the soul lives — in my soul and in my heart, I'm convinced I'm wrong!

Because, in my heart, I'm convinced that I'm wrong.

I'm an angel! Goodbye! In this self-complacent conviction she departed.

I went about my house hold duties, convinced that the Grange had but one sensible soul in its walls, and that lodged in my body.

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

If you saw a bullet hit a Bird - and he told you he wasn't shot - you might weep at his courtesy, but you would certainly doubt his word - One drop more from the gash that stains your Daisy's bosom - then would you believe?

You know in your heart when you're doing the right thing and when you're not. And you just have to do everything you can to stay the course.

hesitated, thinking of all the ways I could change the subject, then made a spur-of-the-moment decision that I was finished with small talk and surface conversation and diversions and lies of any kind, no matter how small. At least for right now, as I sat at my parents' dining room table, with a kind man who had once loved me, and who still prayed to God before supper.

It's always a good feeling when you can produce just the right one-liner to prove your point so tidily.

Our faith stands like an island,' he proclaims, 'lashed by a sea of doubt.

Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.