Quotes About Conviction

How will I make a people who do not understand the power of belief believe?

I think he's real," the boy said. "Me, too," the girl agreed. "Well," the mom said. "If enough folks believe in a thing, I guess it becomes real enough. Don't it?

Have faith in your own thoughts.

It's not that we don't know the principles of righteousness. The issue is whether we have the courage to act on them.

is possible for the person who has faith. Still

I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.

In fact, without doubt, there is no faith.

Believing is easier than thinking. Hence so many more believers than thinkers.

To choose the sure thing is treason to the soul.

Es obvio que los seres humanos poseen una gran capacidad para aferrarse a las falsas creencias con fanatismo y tenacidad, y los científicos racionalistas no son ninguna excepción.

Experiencing is believing. - A fat belly cannot believe that such a thing as hunger exists.

God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.

A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it's been written. A good song takes on more meaning as the years pass by.

In sum, then, our discussion is informed by the conviction that a body of practices widely regarded by outsiders as well organised, logical, and coherent, in fact consists of a disordered array of observations with which scientists struggle to produce order.

Kuyper called upon Christians to wage a struggle against all compromises with truth in every area of life and learning.

I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. -Martin Luther King

If you draw your sword against those you sworn to protect, the very ones who trust in your strength, how will you convince them that you are a shield when the dragons come and take them away?

Speak the truth. Live the truth. Be the truth. Never let the faithless ones change any of those three principles.

Belief is when someone else does the thinking.

Often dogma masks a lack of true faith, so I can't say that it interests me much.

if we obey God, we must disobey ourselves; and it is in this disobeying ourselves, wherein the hardness of obeying God consists.