Quotes About Conviction

I'll say this Wainwright. When she chooses a side, she doesn't screw around.

He tried to feel the meaning of the words, speak them with passion nonetheless. If this was what he was inspired to, then he would not believe he had been inspired wrong. And it wrong to simply intone the Scholar-God's arguments. They must be…internalized. Considered. Spoken as if they lived and breathed and were each day argued anew, not as if they lay dead and dusty in some tomb.

There had been times in the last decade and a half when Vincent had been convinced he'd never exactly remember that face. And there had been times when he'd been just as convinced had never get it out of his head. That he could feel Michelangelo standing beside him, glowering as he was glowering now.

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

If it's not a "Hell Yes!" then it's a "Hell No!"...it's that simple.

How right- how incredibly, utterly right- and how impossible!

She knew there could be no certainty, only faith. Could she find faith?

the way she said it that told him she was telling the truth.

Besides, I have determined that

She looked at me for real and saw I was serious. She saw I knew she was for me like you know that tomorrow morning the sun will rise.

Because two people can't have entirely different opinions without one of them being final.

Like many high-minded people, Wilson, when faced with opposition that he considered evil but which refused to yield to his arguments, felt no compunction about simply crossing his arms and refusing to play the game.

Alleen wie zichzelf iets wijsmaakt en daar volledig in durft te geloven heeft enige kans van het leven te winnen.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

Perhaps men could accustom themselves to living with a small amount of doubt. I think doubt a necessary ingredient to live.

These verses believe; they love; they hope; that is all.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief.

There must be head faith before there can be heart faith. We must believe intellectually before we can believe savingly in the Lord Jesus.

The prickings of an uneasy conscience are not the same as the conviction of sin which is produced by the Holy Spirit.

Il capitano di lunga secca Mikko Heikkinen era fermamente convinto che una decisione importante e irrevocabile come quella del suicidio non andava presa a mente lucida, senza il conforto di un buon cicchetto.

El español, una vez decidida la estocada que se propone dar, la ejecuta ciegamente aunque así lo hagan pedazos (PIERRE DE BRANTÔME).

Always that damned discipline that you wear like chain mail ... You would have got on well with Bernard de Clairvaux and his gang of Knights Templar. If you'd been captured by Saladin, I'm sure you'd rather have had your throat cut than renounce your faith. But not from devotion, from pride.

Unos mueren por el paraíso de Cristo y otros por el del proletariado.

ser jefe consistía en eso: la capacidad de hacer planes y de convencer a otros para que los ejecutaran, aunque eso los llevase a la muerte.