Quotes About Conviction

If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.

His conversion to Christianity seems to have come about largely by thinking...It did not come by sudden intuition, or overwhelming vision, or even by the more usual path of conviction of sin calling for repentance and atonement.

Lewis was an apologist from temper, from conviction, and from modesty. From temper, for he loved argument. From conviction, being traditionally orthodox. From modesty, because he laid no claim either to the learning which would have made him a theologian or to the grace which would have made him a spiritual guide.

The marks of this style are weight and clarity of argument, sudden turns of generalization and genial paradox, the telling short sentence to sum a complex paragraph, and unexpected touches of personal approach to the reader, whom he always assumes to be as logical, as learned, as romantic, and as open to conviction as himself. Not that in fact he was easily open to conviction; perhaps 'open to argument' would be a truer description.

I have to know the hill on which I'm willing to die," she told the group. "The equality of the sexes is that hill for me.

It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.

They have that most strange and dangerous of qualities," said Cosca. "They think they're in the right.

When you tell a lie, you have to sound like you believe it. Goes double for the ones you tell yourself.

Everyone finds a way to make their side the right one, after all.

Men can have all manner of deeply held beliefs about the world in general that they find most inconvenient when called upon to apply to their own lives. Few people let morality get in the way of expediency. Or even convenience. A man who truly believes in a thing beyond the point where it costs him is a rare and dangerous thing.

As long as we pray believing. The only way to pray, missy. The onliest way.

Just one more thing, Nurse Girl. You keep in mind there's times to shrug off the rules and do what you know is true in your own insides.' 'You mean follow my heart.' 'Heart, gut, feet, whatever. Just don't let your oughta-dos mess up them long years ahead of you.

No one has the right to destroy another person's belief by demanding empirical evidence.

People with integrity expect to be believed. If not, they let time prove them right.

This is worth dying for. A driver with a firm jawline

I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection, yet such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest, and thus it is, that I always feel revived, as by a new conviction, when your words tell me I am dear to you; and, wanting these, I relapse into doubt, and too often into despondency.

I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.

He was convinced, I could see, that this time 'round his words would produce quite the opposite effect on me, as in favorable, as in advantageous, especially as I'd had two brothers in the renouncers myself.

Some people are comfortable talking about their lives, as if they can make sense of the progression of random events that made them what they are. This involves a kind of forward-looking faith in life; a conviction that cause and effect are linked, and that they are themselves more than the sum of their past.

I didn't think my mother was even consciously aware of what she was doing. She had convinced herself more than anyone else so that she would not feel the insufferable guilt that comes when you realize you have abused and betrayed your own children.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

People respond well to those that are sure of what they want.

You change a man's mind by showing him a good time.

Allegiance to a belief system can have deep, non-rational roots