Quotes About Conviction

Soup leaves us full because we believe it will.

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

Faith is the realization of an invisible truth.

After ten years of conflicting feelings, I'm suddenly not conflicted at all.

I know we can love each other enough to make our relationship matter more than anything else ever has," Smith said. "Yes, Hollywood is crazy, but even though I just broke rule number one today by bashing in a photographer's face," he said with a slightly rueful half grin, "I'm convinced we can transcend the pitfalls from here on out.

Nor have I met any man in my life, arguing for what should be among men, but took for granted as he argued that the doctrine he consciously or unconsciously accepted was or should be a similar foundation for all mankind. Hence battle.

From my earliest days I had a conviction that I was here to write certain things and so from the age of 13, I kept working at that. I was always very busy with my "project" so I'm afraid that I didn't notice much. Much of life has escaped me.

You become a writer because you are convinced that you have a grip on reality of a certain distinctive kind. It belongs to you and to others who share such a recognition.

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

I've already told the police what happened, but they don't believe me. Why would you?' he said. 'Because we're the people that believe people that other people don't believe,' I said. 'How can I know that?' he asked. 'You're just going to have to believe me,' I said.

That's because they don't know,' said Tyburn. 'It's like economics. Everybody's got a theory, and some people make it their religion.

And I personally don't so much believe in it as have to massage its feet when I go home at night.

A fanatic who is willing to die for his cause thinks nothing of killing you for his cause.

In the Affairs of this World Men are saved, not by Faith, but by the Lack of it.

John Masterman once wrote: "Sometimes in life27 you feel that there is something which you must do, and in which you must trust your own judgment and not that of any other person. Some call it conscience and some plain obstinacy. Well, you can take your choice.

But I knew that we would need to do more to get our message across.

instead. But Obama had made up his mind and pressed Tim to accept, which he eventually did.

I still considered myself a conservative.

The callers seemed to believe that voting in opposition to their personal views for political reasons was perfectly natural.

That person already disagrees with you, and they're not going to be convinced by your words of wisdom and your sparkling rhetorical flourishes. The goal will be to destroy the leftist in as public a way as is humanly possible.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

Faith has its reasons and reason has its faiths.