Quotes About Conviction

Listen to him long enough," Judith said, "and he can make you believe the polar cap is made of vanilla ice cream.

Teilhard shared with Whitehead, for example, the conviction that our own mental activity is an aspect of nature, not something that occurs outside of nature.

We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves that is our only commitment to others.

Now," said Halt, "all I have to do is work out a way of beating these horse-riding devils." Erak grinned at him. "That should be child's play," he said. "The hard part will be convincing Ragnak about it.

The blessed Gospel of Christ is what I hold; that do I believe, that have I taught, and that will I never revoke!

the archbishop endeavored to prevail on Mr. Wishart to recant; but he was too firmly fixed in his religious principles and too much enlightened with the truth of the Gospel, to be in the least moved.

William Tyndale, and Miles Coverdale, both voluntary exiles from their country for their aversion to popish superstition and idolatry.

Jerome was resolved to seal the doctrine with his blood; and he suffered death with the most distinguished magnanimity.

Though you," said he, "can so easily mock God, the world, and your own conscience, yet will I not do so.

anyone who identifies him/herself publicly as a "change agent" is self-convicted of incompetence. Changes will certainly occur as a result, but they are not likely to be the changes desired.

the furnace of affliction comes from doing what seems right in our own eyes...

Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.

There is no other proof.

THE RETRIBUTION PRINCIPLE (RP) is the conviction that the righteous will prosper and the wicked will suffer, both in proportion to their respective righteousness and wickedness. In Israelite theology the principle was integral to the belief in God's justice.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

The essence of dietrologia is that it dismisses the notion that anyone could act purely for reasons of moral conviction.

it's not god who's fucked up, it's the screamers who say they believe in him and who claim to pursue their ends in his holy name.

Why do I always have to be right?

Take a stand and make a mark.

los vencedores siempre están convencidos de que son inmunes. Nunca creen que el juego pueda no haber terminado

La ventaja de ser abogado en lugar de, pongamos por caso, psicoanalista es que los abogados trabajan en un mundo desprovisto de certeza. Vivimos en el mundo de la persuasión.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.