Quotes About Conviction

You already knew the right thing to do. You just needed someone to confirm it for you.

even if she saw a ghost, she still wouldn't believe it.

I'm Episcopalian. I believe in everything.

A person is better off for having performed sincere religious acts even when they rest on false premises.

If you're going to go somewhere, you have to believe you can get there. Somehow, some way.

Advocacy means persuading people who matter to care about your issue. It is about getting listened to, being at the table when decisions are made, being heard by people who make decisions. It is about facing and overcoming resistance. It is about speaking and writing in compelling ways that make decision makers want to adopt your ideas.

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

Poor heretics there be, Which think to establish dangerous constancy, But I have told them, 'Since you will be true, You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

With his trademark courage and conviction, President Reagan led us out of the Cold War, spreading his vision of freedom, resulting in the release of millions of people from the yoke of communism.

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

A narrow mind begets obstinacy; we do not easily believe what we cannot see.

Personal testimony of the gospel and the Church is the most important thing you can earn in this life.

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

Every strong conviction ends by taking possession of us; it overcomes and absorbs us, and tears us ruthlessly from everything else. Has the Cross so seized upon your life?

... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.

Never doubt, never look back. That's how I live my life.

When you change what you believe, you change what you do.

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

I have been very consistent over the course of my entire life. I have always fought for the same values and principles.

Faith to me it's believe without seeing, it's how you live your life, how you are authentic.

An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.

I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should.

don't argue what you don't believe in. Rule number one, in law and in life.