Quotes About Conviction

We spend too much time wondering what others may have thought about our outfit or the comment we made in the small group meeting. We see opportunities to testify about Christ, but we avoid them. We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).

Throughout the New Testament, "faith" means active trust and reliance.

What ardently we wish we soon believe

The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

Truth cannot be defeated.

confirmed Lincoln's view that

The evolution between doubt and belief is a natural-instinct without that one cannot recognize its belief. Doubt leads to believe if one can defeat the doubt.

Unbelieving is within it, something believing.

It's not about if I can! I'm doing this because I want to... If I have to die fighting for it, then I die.

Belief and hope, it seemed were not the same thing,....

It's possible to possess great integrity and be wrong. To do the wrong thing for the right reasons. Integrity is—it's about being true to what you believe is true and good.

Ragnar est communiste et ne s'en cache pas: «soit on est communiste, soit on est con.»

Mysticism is the conviction, born of personal experience, that there is a divine core in human personality which each of us can realize directly, and that making this discovery is the real goal of our lives.

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.

Never explain?your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Be confident, not certain

Then come the hard choices: What do I believe? To what extent am I ready to live up to my beliefs? How far am I ready to support them? Are there times when I lack the courage to stand up and be counted because I fear loss of prestige or popularity, of alienating my neighbors, of hurting my business or professional standing?

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.

The depressed don't write books. People who are happy write, people who travel, are in love, and talk and talk with the conviction that, one way or another, their words always go to the right place." "Isn't that how it is?" No, words rarely go to the right place, and if they do, it's only for a very brief time. Otherwise they're useful for speaking nonsense, as now. Or for pretending that everything is under control.

But her body, seated a few inches from mine on the wooden bench, had manifested no unease. Not even her voice, which had been sure and clear: no. Not a single sign that might lead me to think that she was lying. Thus I had no doubt. She was lying.

deprimidos no escriben libros. Los escriben las personas contentas, que viajan, que están enamoradas y que hablan, y hablan con la convicción de que de un modo u otro las palabras acaben siempre en el lugar correcto.