Quotes About Conviction

police officers have absolute immunity when they testify as witnesses, even when they commit perjury and even when their perjured testimony results in the conviction of an innocent person.

Reform or no reform, he never ceased to promote the interests of St. Denis and the Royal House of France with the same naive, and in his case not entirely unjustified, conviction of their identity with those of the nation and with the Will of God as a modern oil or steel magnate may promote legislation favorable to his company and to his bank as something beneficial to the welfare of this country and to the progress of mankind.

When we are passionate about God, we can trust our passions.

Trust your instincts.

We would define a belief as a thought you continue to think.

The day is not made of light, but of will

Most of the human race, by one means or other, are prepossessed with principles opposed to the religion of reason.

Those who invalidate reason, ought seriously to consider, 'whether they argue against reason, with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the principle, that they are laboring to dethrone;' but if they argue without reason, (which, in order to be consistent with themselves, they must do,) they are out of the reach of rational conviction, nor do they deserve a rational argument.

Lost causes are the only causes worth fighting for.

I want to develop discernments that say an unapologetic "no" to ways that violate the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Hope commits us to actions that connect with God's promises. What we call hoping is often only wishing. We want things we think are impossible, but we have better sense than to spend any money or commit our lives to them. Biblical hope, though, is an act—like buying a field in Anathoth. Hope acts on the conviction that God will complete the work that he has begun even when the appearances, especially when the appearances, oppose it.

Individualism is the growth-stunting, maturity-inhibiting habit of understanding growth as an isolated self-project. Individualism is self-ism with a swagger. The individualist is the person who is convinced that he or she can serve God without dealing with God.

The psalmist's and the Christian's waiting and watching—that is, hoping—is based on the conviction that God is actively involved in his creation and vigorously at work in redemption.

There is no living the life of faith, whether by prophet or person, without some kind of sustaining vision like this. At some deep level we need to be convinced, and in some way or other we need periodic reminders, that no words are mere words. In particular, God's words are not mere words. They are promises that lead to fulfillments. God performs what he announces. God does what he says.

The reason many of us do not ardently believe in the gospel is that we have never given it a rigorous testing, thrown our hard questions at it, faced it with our most prickly doubts.

I didn't know it at the time, but what I absorbed in my subconscious, which eventually surfaced years later, was a developing conviction that the most effective strategy for change, for revolution—at least on the large scale that the kingdom of God involves—comes from a minority working from the margins.

Different fields notwithstanding, since their early alliance positive psychologists and happiness economists have shared the conviction that happiness was not an ill-defined or speculative construct with more than fifty shades of historical and philosophical grey, but an objective, universal concept that can be unbiasedly and accurately measured.

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

We have to convince people about the relevance of regional parties, and we are doing that.

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

Religion is not changed as easily as a shirt.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

The first canon of my religion is that you shouldn't try to convince anybody to believe like you do.