Quotes About Conviction

Anyone can say that rocks fall down rather than up, but only a person who is truly committed to the brethren has a reason to say that God is three persons but also one person, or that the Democratic Party ran a child sex ring out of a Washington pizzeria.

Algunos experimentos han demostrado que a las personas les convence más un discurso político cuando el orador apela a su corazón y su mente con metáforas relacionadas con la familia.

The romantic notion that all evil is a product of society has justified the release of dangerous psychopaths who promptly murdered innocent people. And the conviction that humanity could be reshaped by massive social engineering projects led to some of the greatest atrocities in history.

They write as if they have something important to show.

Are you infallible? Are you certain that you're right about everything? If so, what makes you different from your opponents, who also are certain they're right?

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

Do what you love and believe in, and work hard.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

I'm a Mormon. I know it. I live it. I love it.

In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.

We all love guarantees in life.

In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.

Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about it

You doubt because you love truth.

When you design a collection, you have to start with what you love and what you believe in. Unless you do that, you can't stand behind it, so there's no point in doing it.

Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.

People do things for love and belief and passion, not just because they're paid to do it.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

I have my faith and my principles, and this is what makes me who I am. If the person loves me, he'll love my God too.

Do you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it?

The language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.

If you're going to take gambles, you must have one thing: self-confidence.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.

It isn't precisely that people will fight for what they believe. They will fight, instead, to maintain the match between what they believe, what they expect, and what they desire.