Quotes About Conviction

resolve is not incompatible with Christian humility.

But at the same time, even as the season outside gets more exuberantly festive, those who observe Advent within the Christian community are convicted more and more each year by the truth of what is going on inside—inside the church as she refuses cheap comfort and sentimental good cheer. Advent begins in the dark.

I'm a religious fanatic? Yes, I am, actually.

It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.

Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

If I can convince you that I'm going to beat you up, and you believe me, that's your fault.

I really don't want to go to work every day convincing myself of what I'm saying. I want the material to make me a better actor; then I try to return the favor to the material.

When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's, like, my favorite thing on earth.

Fearless leaders are needed to defend our culture, not agreeable milquetoasts.

I have to feel good about what I'm endorsing because I have to live with it.

If the audience sees and feels things are real, then they buy it.

I did what I felt, and I felt what I did, at all costs.

I've given up trying to convince the world about the authenticity of my femininity.

This discovery convinced me of the power of crystallography and led me to continue in this field.

When you are convinced your cause is just, you fight for it.

I believe in my abilities as a fighter.

We say that we care about the war, but we don't even really know what we're fighting for.

I want to be a woman who has a little bit more figured out, who doesn't have so many doubts.

I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art.

How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

After I finished working for Estee Lauder, I stopped being a professional model. I decided to never again advertise something that I don't actually use. I only sign up for things that I truly believe in.

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

I have never doubted. I have had a firm belief in God and the church.