Quotes About Conviction

Faith is an action. Faith is acting on what you believe. If your believing is inaccurate your actions will be inaccurate and your faith will not produce. That is one of the most difficult things for Christians to grasp. Faith is an action. Faith is acting on what you believe.

Sometimes, it's like you know what people think: You know what they're thinking, and you know it's wrong. All you want to do if change their mind, but you can't.

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

it was important to figure out what things were worth doing---and then to just do those things, don't do any of the other ones. People will try to convince you, always they will try to convince you to do things you should on no account do. Negotiating these terrible pathways full of bad advice---it is the principal danger of youth. That and suicide.

A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.

The burden of proof is not on Astrology to prove that it does work. The burden of proof is on skeptics and cynics to give us evidence that would dissuade the millions of people who believe in it to go the other way.

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.

What is courage?" I ask. "Bearing witness. That is a form of courage.

Even to begin to understand the problem of faith one must differentiate between rational and irrational faith. By irrational faith I understand the belief (in a person or an idea) which is based on one's submission to irrational authority. In contrast, rational faith is a conviction which is rooted in one's own experience of thought or feeling.

Ä°nanç, kesin olmay???n kesinliÄŸidir. Ä°nsan?n kendi görüÅŸ ve kavray???n?n doÄŸru ve kesin olduÄŸuna inanmakt?r; gerçekliÄŸin ortaya koyaca?? nihai sonuca inanmak deÄŸildir.

No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.

A man has to have something he can put faith in.

Ravic straightened up. "Faith can easily make one fanatical. That's why all religions have cost so much blood." He grinned. "Tolerance is the daughter of doubt, Eugénie. That explains why you, with all your faith, are so much more aggressive toward me than I, lost infidel, am toward you." Veber

Vai katr? zi?? kaut kam arvien j?b?t paties?bai? - Laikam ne. K?p?c? - Es nezinu. Bet iesp?jams, ka b?tu maz?k karu, ja cilv?ki tik ?oti negrib?tu p?rliecin?t cits citu par savas personisk?s paties?bas pareiz?bu.

There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best - in a way that cost them nothing. And that is why they us down so badly.

There are thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom are convinced that they were acting for the best—in a way that cost them nothing.

Anyway, there were thousands of Kantoreks, all of them convinced that they were acting for the best, in a way that was the most comfortable for themselves. But as far as we are concerned, that is the very root of their moral bankruptcy.

There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best—

Nad ei taha poliitikat. Nad tahavad usu aseainet. /--/ Nad tahavad jälle kedagi uskuda. Mida, on täitsa ükskõik. Sellepärast nad ongi nii fanaatilised.

We must keep in mind, I believe, that when Hitler says anything he for the moment convinces himself that it is true. He is basically sincere; but he is at the same time a fanatic.

He died angry," Chalmers said, "because I didn't believe him. Even in death he is emphatic and imperious.

When she quieted the jet engine buzz of worries assaulting her brain, when she stopped thinking altogether and just felt, she knew this was right. Feeling the silence of peace and conviction was so foreign to her she wasn't even sure what to do with it.

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

Are you a communist? No I am an anti-fascist For a long time? Since I have understood fascism.