Quotes About Conviction

And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

But along with the feeling of ineffability, the conviction that some profound objective truth has been disclosed to you is a hallmark of the mystical experience, regardless of whether it has been occasioned by a drug, meditation, fasting, flagellation, or sensory deprivation. William James gave a name to this conviction: the noetic quality. People feel they have been let in on a deep secret of the universe, and they cannot be shaken from that conviction.

The mystical journey seems to offer a graduate education in the obvious. Yet people come out of the experience understanding these platitudes in a new way; what was merely known is now felt, takes on the authority of a deeply rooted conviction. And, more often than not, that conviction concerns the supreme importance of love.

I believe in my heart Simpson is guilty.

At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ's, and nothing necessary for justification except faith alone.

I've believed in myself since day one.

The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.

It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.

Is a faith without action a sincere faith?

I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.

I think people recognize I'm very sincere in what I say.

I'm going to be as sincere as I can in delivering the message I think is right. If people agree, great, and if they don't, I did my best.

You have to be completely brave and sincere about what you're doing to just not ever compromise and change it to what you think someone else might want.

Until I feel strong enough to pray sincerely and to act accordingly, I would rather not pray at all.

He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem.

My grandmother's first husband was a spiritualist medium. What fascinates me about that is the balance between conviction and sincerity and trickery, which is also something that novelists are very familiar with.

I try to bring all my sincerity to the character I play. That way, I am dedicated.

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

The song 'My Way' is a very remarkable song. It is also difficult to sing because you've got to convince people that what you're singing about is the truth. It's a man who is very proud of having achieved everything that he's achieved his way.

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

When I was younger I had my problems, and one of the hardest things I had to come to terms with was that I had to believe in something that contradicted what I was doing. I had to genuflect... I had to confess what I thought were sins, but not really sins, but what some people thought were sins.

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence.

I can't deal in ifs or in hypothetical situations. I only deal in absolutes.

I am willing to believe, but I do not have the gift of faith. I'm skeptical.