Quotes About Conviction

At the end of all rationality there is simply the need to decide and the faith to live through, to endure.

Self-assurance reassures others.

What I do is so this world will know that it will not change me.

Maybe if I act well enough, I'll come to believe it myself.

Sometimes I believe...Sometimes I really do believe.

Perdonar? Nunca perdonéis, pero fingid que perdonáis. Decid amistosamente que perdonáis. Convenced de que habéis perdonado. Así devastador es el efecto cuando al final os lanzáis y buscáis la garganta.

The problem is we tend to act on what we believe even when what we believe isn't anything we should.

If I do the right thing, the money will be there.

The problem is we tend to act on what we believe even when what we believe isn't anything we should. As

Does your Christian (partner) pray? ... if not, you'll walk through life without the person who knows you most lifting you up in prayerful support. You'll be the only one supporting your kids in prayer. You'll be married to someone who isn't opening themselves up to gods conviction encouragement and support.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

Brian Andreas Promise #1: Promises to Myself #1: I will tell the truth unless I get confused & I think I could get in real trouble if someone found out, in which case, I will lie as convincingly as possible for as long as I feel the need.

Of course I already know the best thing to do, but it'll have to wait a little while longer. I'm still convinced I can get my own way. —Best Thing

I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.

They were just…looking for something to believe in. They weren't much into thinking for themselves. So I did their thinking for them.

I'm, if possible, more convinced than ever that this is the most beautiful part of the world, but it's an almost metallic, two-dimensional beauty with no warmth or gentleness to trick or woo you into liking it. Its great bleak loveliness is just there, hard and sharp, forever and ever.

There is no Christianity unless first there is repentance. And it is not just, "Well, I am guilty." It is not just a conviction. It is a conviction plus a desire to turn away from those things.

28So we are convinced that every detail of our lives is continually woven together to fit into God's perfect plan of bringing good into our lives, for we are his lovers who have been called to fulfill his designed purpose.

It's a strange truth that no matter how persuaded we might be of our own correctness, the discomfiting realization that others disagree with us causes a paralyzing inability to argue the case convincingly.

A tricky bit of business, this believing in someone else. So tricky that we would never do it, if we did not want someone, someday, to believe in us, too.

It was only after Caroline had admitted lying to me, and only after she'd made me admit that I'd lied to her, were we both fully ready to believe each other. To quote John Calvin one last time, "Not that they may believe against their wills (which would be impossible), but that they may be made willing to believe who were before unwilling to believe.

How will I make a people who do not understand the power of belief believe? And without their belief Mother Earth will wither and Yuletide will fade...and so, too will I...like all the spirits and gods before me.

Abitha could see that these people believed, truly believed, that they were doing God's work here this day. And there was something about these people that horrified Abitha even worse than those whose faces were lined with cruelty. As at least cruelty was a thing that could be pointed out, confronted. But this belief, this absolute conviction that this evil they were doing was good, was God's work—how, she wondered, how could such a dark conviction ever be overcome?