Quotes About Conviction

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice.

We may convince others by our arguments; but we can only persuade them by their own

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own

Mistakes may be made, he said, "but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle." The

For Tolkien, Catholicism was not an opinion to which one subscribed but a reality to which one submitted. Quite simply, pseudo-psychology aside, Tolkien remained a Catholic for the simple if disarming reason that he believed Catholicism was true.

It is certain that no man can be firmly and honestly convinced of the non-existence of God. For, in the first place, no human being enjoying the full use of reason can find a really conclusive argument for the thesis that there is no God.

The fact that the church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution.

Not if StarClan themselves came and begged me

But I'm sure I'm right." Squirrelflight's mew grew more certain. "It has to be. It can't be anyone else." She lifted her chin. "I think Ashfur has returned." Bristlefrost frowned, puzzled. Ashfur?

With this life I give you nobility and certainty and faith.

What SkyClan needs more than anything else is a leader who has faith in herself. Because only then could other cats have faith in her, too

But I'm sure I'm right." Squirrelflight's mew grew more certain. "It has to be. It can't be anyone else." She lifted her chin. "I think Ashfur has returned.

Some people define themselves by railing against all of the things they hate, while explaining why everyone else should hate it too.

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

Man makes holy what he believes.

Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking.

I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.

I had often doubted; now I was convinced: there were still noble beings among us in whose hearts knowledge of the higher order was preserved and perpetuated. A lofty example enjoins us to follow, and I swore before this head that for all the future I would cast my lot with the solitary and free rather than the triumphant and servile.

Preachers has got to preach against something. It wouldn't do them no good to preach for everything. They got to be against something every time.

Fourth Amendment, which requires a judge-issued warrant for an arrest; the Fifth Amendment, which requires a grand jury indictment before a person is held for trial; and the Sixth Amendment, which says that a person can be imprisoned only after conviction by a jury based on proof beyond a reasonable doubt.

prosecutors have absolute immunity for their prosecutorial acts, no matter how egregious they are or how much harm they inflict. In Imbler v. Pachtman in 1976, a prosecutor had been sued for damages for knowingly using perjured testimony that resulted in an innocent person's conviction and incarceration for nine years.