Quotes About Conviction

My heart is a protest that I let rally against my ribs.

Look no farther than your hand, make a choice and take a stand

but I suddenly had to see you again. I know that seems ridiculous, but I look at you, and I feel sure of something.

Don't hesitate if you know it's right

Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.

Right is right, even when all are against it, and wrong is wrong, even when all are for it.

Sometimes the hardest things to believe are the ones most important to accept.

It was just like him, she thought; with him, a happy ending was always a foregone conclusion. But such was the power of his faith that when she was with him; she found herself believing in happy endings, too.

Personal integrity comes from integrating our life experiences with our belief systems

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

When Jesus was moved by compassion, it was not just a feeling he had, but an understanding and conviction of what those people meant to the Father.

Just because you don't believe me doesn't make me a liar.

What was so odd was that quite a lot of people, not just sheep but highly intelligent people, did apparently believe it. T. S. Eliot, for instance. Or Eddington—in fact, quite a few physicists, the very last people one would expect to be taken in by it. Philosophers, too. Was it possible—was there any chance—that there was more to it than I had thought? No, certainly not. Of course not! Still, it was odd. Damned odd.

It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the dislike of Christians by nominal or non-Christians: their lives contain no overwhelming first but many balances.

To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting.

But I was about to make him see God…

To speak up and stand by my guns the entire time...To stand by my methodology. That's why I kind of made myself the producer.

Anything that I've put my name to and my face to and put my time into, is something that I'm clearly passionate about, or I wouldn't be there.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

Nothing is ever done until everyone is convinced that it ought to be done, and has been convinced for so long that it is now time to do something else.

I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.

He's the kind of liar who totally forgets what he told you the last time, but he believes every single lie with such conviction that sometimes he can convince you of it.

The only time Republicans will shake fists and point fingers is over a war delayed, one that isn't led by the US, or a war waged without the necessary conviction (read collateral damage).

This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on.