Quotes About Conviction

Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, I didn't do it. Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.

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As philosopher Francis Bacon put it in 1620, "the human understanding, once it has adopted an opinion, collects any instances that confirm it, and though the contrary instances may be more numerous and more weighty, it either does not notice them or else rejects them, in order that this opinion will remain unshaken."46

Innocence is the weakest defense. Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, I didn't do it. Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.

Some preachers need a travel agent to handle all the guilt trips they put on God's people. But there is a big difference between putting a guilt trip on Christians and unveiling Christ to them. When Christ is presented in power, the Spirit of God will undoubtedly convict those who are walking in contradiction to their new nature.

What I tell you three times is true.

A few more Rules may fitly be given here, for correspondence that has unfortunately become controversial . One is, don't repeat yourself . When once you have said your say, fully and clearly, on a certain point, and have failed to convince your friend, drop that subject : to repeat your arguments, all over again, will simply lead to his doing the same; and so you will go on, like a Circulating Decimal. Did you ever know a Circulating Decimal come to an end?

There is nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.

You must remember, my dear lady, the most important rule of any successful illusion: First, the people must want to believe in it.

Why does anyone do anything? Belief. A belief that they are right and just in their actions. Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son, Isaac, because he believed that God had commanded it. To kill your son is unthinkable. A crime. But if you are acting in the belief that your God, your supreme deity whom you must obey, has demanded it of you, is it still a crime?

Why does anyone do anything? Belief. A belief that they are doing right and just in their actions.

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

There's nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.

When does belief become justification? When does right become rationale and crusade become crime?

There's nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right

Well, now, you see, I have a firm religion that I never drink hot cocoa by myself. It's against my religion. You have a religion? Ling sniffled. Well, no. Not really. But if I did, that would be the first commandment.

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned; / The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity,'" Memphis quoted. "W. B. Yeats. 'The Second Coming.

There's nothing more terrifying than the absoluteness of one who believes he's right.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives...

Lily remembered Sandra saying that Caleb's mind couldn't be changed by a blast of dynamite once he'd made it up on a subject, and she had a hunch both women were right. Caleb was the most hardheaded man on earth.

But the truth might as well not exist to those who refuse to believe it.