Quotes About Conviction

I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.

We really set out in all our books to say something. Every one is an effort to bring the reader over and show them our theory as to why what we're talking about needs to be talked about.

Religion is not theory - it is life. It is not intellectual conviction - it is divine humanity, and nothing else.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts of opinions in politics and in religion; yet they could not therefore have all been in the right; although they could give no stronger evidence that they believed themselves in the right.

I've studied pathological liars, and anything they say, they believe, and that's one of the reasons they're so convincing, because they have no connection with the truth. It's a dead issue. It's like they're color-blind to the truth. So anything that comes out of their mouths is their reality.

With singing, the name of the game is to make yourself believable. When somebody hears you sing a song, and they say, 'Oh, that must have happened to him,' that's when you know you're transmitting. It's like being a good actor. You make people feel things, emotions and what not.

I don't believe you back off being pro-life: You don't stop being pro-life because they say you're mean because you're pro-life.

You have to have a thick skin if you think what you are doing is right.

Often, I'm sitting opposite a client, and I'm thinking, 'How do I convince him to not copy the best-selling product out there?' And sometimes I don't know. Really, it's smarter to be a thief.

I like listening to Ken Clarke. He has had guts in taking his own party on on Europe - and I am a massive pro-European - and I think he stuck with what he believed in through thick and thin even when many have opposed him.

Never forget that the most political thing you can ever do is follow your heart.

At the end of the day, I'm fighting for the things I said I'd fight for.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.

I'm not perfect, I just do what I think is right. So if I can't fulfil people's expectations, I'm sorry, but it's not my fault.

Think before you act and act on what you believe.

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it.

I don't delude myself into thinking I'll bring anyone around to my way of thinking, especially Sean Hannity.

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

Every man thinks god is on his side.