Quotes About Conviction

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.

Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidencecould be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.

We can believe things that are true, and we can believe things that are not true. Which is more important---what is true, or what we believe?

If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.

Leowin: Don't worry Luthiel. 'Truth's existence never depended upon belief.

Not all can believe anything they want to, because not all have the ability to believe.

I will never compromise Truth for the sake of getting along with people who can only get along when we agree.

I am right. I'm always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right.

Those who can't be loyal never believe when others are

The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart.

Miracles prove nothing except to those whose faith is bought very cheap, sir.

Under the circumstances, skepticism had felt like a kind of madness; to choose belief was the only way forward.

Livingstone had said sympathy was no substitute for action. That was an essential brick in Bosch's wall. He had built himself as a man of action and, at the moment when the integrity of his life's work had been called into question by a man on death row, he had chosen to turn his sympathy for Elizabeth Clayton into action.

The important thing is to believe. Not to hope but to believe. There is a difference. I believe in these things and so that helps me do what I have to do and accomplish what it is I want to accomplish.

In this country, there are two million people in prison. Two million. If the system gets it wrong one percent of the time, that is twenty thousand innocent people in jail. Lower it to half a percent and you're still at ten thousand people. This is what keeps me up at night. Why I always say, the scariest client is the innocent man. Because there is so much at stake.

When people think they have discovered or earned a certain knowledge on their own, they are more apt to hold on to it.

A man who looks guilty is found guilty.

In his career, he had chased down hundreds of killers and put them in prison. If he was wrong about one, then it would put the lie to everything else. It would cast him adrift.

You sure?" O'Toole asked. "I don't want to shortchange you." "I'm sure." "Okay, then." O'Toole began to walk away again when Bosch stopped him. "What was the other thing? You said a couple

He knew that you didn't win justice by carrying a sign or a cardboard coffin. You earned it by being on the side of the righteous, by being unswayed from that

Yes, I'm fine. I feel good, actually. Now that I know." "I know what you mean. I remember the time when I decided for good. When I said fuck it, this is what I do.

Because Nettles was on parole for a felony conviction, Ballard did not need to jump through most of the constitutional hoops that protected citizens from unlawful search and seizure. By legal definition, being on parole from prison meant Nettles was still in the custody of the state. By accepting parole he had given up his protections. His parole agent was allowed to access his home, vehicle, and workplace without so much as a nod from a judge.

center. He said no. He said, in very fine English, 'I buy, I don't sell.' Then he escorted me out. But I think that was Tran. Something about him.

Getting a not-guilty verdict was a long shot. Even when you knew in your gut that you were sitting next to an innocent man at the defense table, you also knew that the NGs came grudgingly from a system designed only to deal with the guilty.