Quotes About Conviction

Jasnah didn't want to merely prove her points. She wanted to drive them right into your skull, with a flourish and a pithy epigram.

That's why we get annoyed by you Idrians. So high, so certain that what you do is right. If your god asked you to give up your Breath—or even the Breath of your child—wouldn't you do it? You give up your children to become monks, forcing them into a life of servitude, don't you? That's seen as a sign of faith. Yet when we do something to serve our gods, you twist your lips at us and call us blasphemers.

Not contradicting a point and proving it are different things.

It has always seemed to me," she said, "that a coward is a person who cares more about what people say than about what is right. Bravery isn't about what people call you, Spensa. It's about who you know yourself to be.

Maybe it doesn't matter what he thinks. It's hard to feel that, but I can say it. That feels like a different kind of lying. One that's not all untrue.

Kelsier was right again. I wonder if he ever gets tired of that.

Kelsier's men fought with passion—despite their other, numerous hindrances, they still had this one advantage. This is what happens when you finally convince them to fight. This is what hides within them all.

Could a man both believe, and not believe, at the same time?

He would believe. Not because something had been proven to him beyond his ability to deny. But because he chose to. As

I'm not the Ascendant Warior, Wayne,' she said. 'And I don't particularly care to be. I don't want someone I have to convince, someone I have to rope into submission. That sort of thing is for the courtroom, not the bedroom.

To believe, it seemed, one had to want to believe. It was a conundrum, one Sazed had wrestled with. He wanted someone, something, to force him to have faith. He wanted to have to believe because of the proof shown to him. Yet, the believers whose words now filled his mind would have said he already had proof. Had he not, in his moment of despair, received an answer? As he had been about to give up, TenSoon had spoken. Sazed had begged for a sign, and received it.

He would believe. Not because something had been proven to him beyond his ability to deny. But because he chose to.

It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.

There are those to say a faith is something beyond our command, but destiny is not our own. I know, our faith lives in us. We only have to be brave enough to see it.

Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; it's choosing what's right over what's fun, fast, or easy; and it's practicing your values, not just professing them.

It's okay if I'm alone on this. That's not what I believe is best for this child. Period.

Self-righteousness is the conviction that one's beliefs and behaviors are the most correct.

Choosing what's right over what's easy has become my mantra.

We have agency—we believe

Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.

MAKE THE FIRST CUT "This step is not for the faint of heart. There is no going back. It is time to make the first cut. Are you sure you have made all the right choices? Are you pleased with your plan? Do not make your first cut until you are absolutely, positively sure." —Excerpted from Creating the Illusion by Madame Michel, Paris, 1954

But when we are securely rooted in personal intimacy with the source of life, it will be possible to remain flexible but not relativistic, convinced without being rigid, willing to confront without being offensive, gentle and forgiving without being soft and true witnesses without being manipulative.

Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of KNOWING Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited.

The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.