Quotes About Conviction

I will not campaign for any party.

I saw my dad, my mother and all the people who were part of the party in Ottawa, and of different parties, working really hard for what they believed in.

Galatians 1:10 is my favorite passage.

Unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need women, and men, too, who would rather be morally right than socially correct.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation.

Donald Crowhurst had an extraordinary talent for making people believe him. His power lay in the fact that he had completely convinced himself.

Cuanto más sencilla era la explicación, más fácil resultaba creerla. —El

I cannot accept merely...I do not do anything merely.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

Faith cannot tell us who is right and who is wrong, because each will simply assert that his or her faith is the true one.

Personal purity isn't really the issue. Not supporting animal abuse – and persuading others not to support it – is.

I am absolutely a believer. Faith and life are synonymous functions. If you don't believe, you can't finish a sentence, for example. Speechlessness is the clearest sign of depression. In this respect, depression and disbelief converge.

?lk sebep? Allah'a inananlar için Allah'a kadar gider; i?kembesinden ba?ka ?eye inanmayanlar için i?kembede kal?r.

There is danger in both belief and unbelief.

Put your faith in what you most believe in.

You have to lead people gently toward what they already know is right.

You know, there's more to being an evil despot than getting cake whenever you want it." Agatha thought about this and was filled with a sudden conviction, one that would stand the test of time through everything else that happened to her through the years. "If that's what you think, then you're doing it wrong.

I have already made up my mind, don't confuse me with facts.

Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves itself is to keep you from having any doubts, and the way it keeps you from doubting is to blind you to the way things really are. Evidence contrary to the belief can be staring you straight in the face, and you won't see it... True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.

When recently asked if she believes Richard is innocent, Doreen said, "I've always fervently believed in his innocence! I can't even conceive of his being guilty of the terrible things they say he did. He received an unfair trial with very inadequate legal representation. Someday the truth will be known.

As they entered, Richard glowered at them. Cynthia Haden couldn't look him in the eyes. She felt guilty about having convicted him. She thought the Hernandezes were so woefully inadequate that Richard hadn't gotten a fair shake. "He was sold down the river," she would later say, and would make correcting that "injustice" her life's work.

As your affection for me can only proceed from your experience and conviction of my fondness for you (for to talk of natural affection is talking nonsense), the only return I desire is, what it is chiefly your interest to make me; I mean your invariable practice of virtue, and your indefatigable pursuit of knowledge. Adieu! and be persuaded that I shall love you extremely, while you deserve it; but not one moment longer.