Quotes About Conviction

Apostasy implies an absolute damnation only on the supposition of a previous perfect faith. Does that fix it?

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

E assim, com o sol brilhando e vendo uma imensa quantidade de folhas brotando nos galhos das árvores, no mesmo ritmo espantoso daqueles filmes em câmera acelerada, senti aquela familiar convicção de que, junto com o verão, a vida recomeçava.

I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. There was so much to read, for one thing, and so much fine health to be pulled down out of the young breath-giving air. I

Y así con el sol y las grandes explosiones de hojas que crecen en los árboles, tenía esa familiar convicción de que la vida comenzaba de nuevo con el verano.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees - just as things grow in fast movies - I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer

I'd be a God Damned fool to live anywhere else.

I was entirely unconvinced about anything, except that some people were strong and attractive and could do what they wanted, and others were caught and disgraced.

There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it. - Smokeys dad, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.

Les dieux sont ceux qui ne doutent jamais.

Não me queiram converter a convicção: sou lúcido. Já disse: sou lúcido. Nada de estéticas com coração: sou lúcido. Merda! Sou lúcido.

Ma evitando quel contatto mi sono isolato, e nell'isolarmi ho esacerbato la mia sensibilità già eccessiva. ... Non ho mai considerato il suicidio come una soluzione perché io odio la vita per l'amore che sento per essa. Mi ci è voluto del tempo a capire il penoso equivoco in cui vivo con me stesso. Una volta convinto mi sono addolorato, cosa che mi succede ogni volta che mi convinco di qualcosa, perché la convinzione per me è sempre la perdita di un'illusione.

Insane asylums are full of lunatics with certainties!

This benign property of his prose is not, one hopes, to be attributed to the reason noticed by the eccentric du Garbandier, who said 'the beauty of reading a page of de Selby is that it leads one inescapably to the happy conviction that one is not, of all nincompoops, the greatest'.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

Someone once told the Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor that it is more open-minded to think that the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar is a great, wonderful, powerful symbol. Her response was, "If it's only a symbol, to hell with it.

There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.

I don't have to run from anything because I don't believe in anything.

That's the trouble with you preachers, he said. You've all got too good to believe in anything, and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I believe to be true." May 19, 1962

W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to experience things that I have all along accepted. I suppose the fullest writing comes from what has been accepted and experienced both and that I have just not got that far yet all the time. Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

You can't just say NO, he said. You got to do NO. You got to show it. You got to show you mean it by doing it. You got to show you're not going to do one thing by doing another. You got to make an end of it. One way or another.