Quotes About Conviction

We will know when we act—or fail to act—as Christians when to be faithful costs us something. It may be a small thing at first—a place on a sports team because we won't play on Sunday mornings, or the respect of our peers when we will not march in a parade for a political cause. But the demands made on us will grow greater, and the consequences for failing to submit to the world's demands will grow more severe.

I was deeply interested in conveying what is a deeply felt conviction of my own. This is simply to suggest that human beings must involve themselves in the anguish of other human beings. This, I submit to you, is not a political thesis at all. It is simply an expression of what I would hope might be ultimately a simple humanity for humanity's sake.

You gotta BELIEVE, Bolie!

The message: Sometimes you must be willing to burn all your other ships and grasp the helm of the one under your command. Doing so can stimulate the conviction and create the ownership necessary to get started on a new program of action that will help you rise above your circumstances.

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.

Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When people believe one thing and do something else, they are inviting misery. If you give yourself the name, play the game. When you believe something you don't follow with your heart, intellect, and body, it hurts. Don't do that to yourself. Live your belief, or let that belief go. If you are not actively living a belief, it's not really your belief, anyway.

All I would myself ask for would be that our perceptive interrogator should really feel convinced, from the nature of the computer's replies, that there is a conscious presence underlying these replies

When we feel incapable of making the situation better, we go into hiding. Out of hopelessness and despair, we become convinced that any opportunity for a meaningful interaction with our beloved is impossible and we lose the ability to reach out.

Ideolog na czworakach kieruje swoje deklaracje wreszcie do w?a?ciwej cz??ci cia?a tych, których próbuje przekona?.

And they say in truth that a man is made of desire. As his desire is, so is his faith. As his faith is, so are his works. As his works are, so he becomes.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

People who claim to be absolutely convinced that their stand is the only right one are dangerous. Such conviction is the essence not only of dogmatism, but of its more destructive cousin, fanaticism. It blocks off the user from learning new truth, and it is a dead giveaway of unconscious doubt. The person then has to double his or her protests in order to quiet not only the opposition but his or her own unconscious doubts as well.

An unbearable reality, combined with the impossibility to change it, tends to lead to abstractions for abstraction's sake, and unreality becomes more realistic than reality itself, more true, more convincing, simply because it looks at you with the eyes of justice.

No one has ever managed to resolve the contradiction there is in wanting to defend something human in the company of men.

John C. Brown] "You ought to keep the Sabbath, Bob." [Bob Ford] "You got your religion, I got my own. It isn't right to spoon it down our throats every Sunday." "It's just that me and the missus, we're Spirit-fired people, and when you think you've got the answer, well, you want to share it." "I'd just as soon as you didn't", said Bob.

Speak up, speak often and don't worry about those that at this point cannot understand as they can never un-hear what we tell them.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

He (Larry Summers) can frame arguments with such force and conviction that people think he knows more than he does.

This is a good principle for us. If even the highest officials in the world approve of our actions and God does not, we should be concerned. But if God approves, even though others don't, we should be content.

In some of these cases, I found that I could not defend my beliefs adequately and needed to change my opinion. In others, I was able to reaffirm my convictions with real confidence. The point is that reexamining these basic beliefs was painful, sometimes agonizingly so. It was not a purely intellectual effort, but involved some of my deepest emotions. It challenged my sense of myself, since I had closely identified some of these beliefs with who I was and what I stood for.

Whatever a person's ultimate concern may be, it will have an enormous influence on everything else the person does or believes.

In the same way that a person cannot love the Yankees and the Red Sox or follow veganism and frequently devour a steak, one cannot really love Jesus and wish to follow him and also vote for a person who so clearly embodies the opposite of everything Christ taught, died for, and demands of us.