Quotes About Conviction

Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

cleave not to faith when faith brings blood. - Rev. John Hale

More Weight. Giles Corey

FRANK, peeved: The trouble with you is, you don't believe in anything. JIM: And your trouble is that you believe in anything. You didn't see my kid this morning, did you?

Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

The conviction is well founded, which the sight of noble conduct calls forth, that the spirit of love... can never pass away and become nothing.

Demopheles: Every man's faith is sacred to him, therefore it should be sacred to you too. Philalethes: I deny your conclusion! I can't see why, because other people are simple-minded, I should respect a pack of lies.

The actual facts of morality are too much on my side for me to fear that my theory can ever be replaced or upset by any other.

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the true believer who commits heretics to the flames is as much a murderer as the bandit who makes a profit from his murder

A fé é como o amor: não pode ser obtida pela força.

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.

And they would not believe me precisely because they would know that what I said was true.

Since his idea of professional integrity requires him to live by his principles, in order to remain a person of integrity, he has changed his principles, and now believes in us almost more than we believe in ourselves.

i Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth

The value of autonomy Ã¢â'¬Â¦ lies in the scheme of responsibility it creates: autonomy makes each of us responsible for shaping his own life according to some coherent and distinctive sense of character, conviction, and interest. It allows us to lead our own lives rather than be led along them, so that each of us can be, to the extent such a scheme of rights can make this possible, what he has made himself.

But even more daunting is the second kind of courage—the courage to act on the truth we find.

In the end what he gave Eleanor and her father was mainly confidence, from what I could see.

After a couple of weeks, she grew only more convinced

I wouldn't be a surgeon if I thought otherwise.)

The value of autonomy Ã¢â'¬Â¦ lies in the scheme of responsibility it creates: autonomy makes each of us responsible for shaping his own life according to some coherent and distinctive sense of character, conviction, and interest. It allows us to lead our own lives rather than be led along them, so that each of us can be, to the extent such a scheme of rights can make this possible, what he has made himself." All

conhece a vida e os homens através do sofrimento, e os despreza com esse forte e nobre desdém que tem origem na profunda convicção da relativa nulidade de tudo, inclusive o próprio eu.

And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.

God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didn't press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew that God existed as the Correct Answer inside my chest.