Quotes About Conviction

It's my conviction that slight shifts in imagination have more impact on living than major efforts at change... deep changes in life follow movements in imagination.

The human will to believe is inexhaustible

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.

Easy. They just let us forget. Give us too much to process, fill up every minute, keep us distracted, it's what the Tube is for, and though it kills me to say it, it's what rock and roll is becoming - just another way to claim our attention, so that beautiful certainty we had starts to fade, and after a while they have us convinced all over again that we really are going to die. And they've got us again.

All paid 10% no matter what they earned."30 And he declares his "growing personal conviction" that "if there is not a change to a flat tax soon, citizens who are now both on government subsistence programs and paying no income tax should have the privilege of voting curtailed until their case proves otherwise.

It's not the innocence that made him so certain. It's the arrogance of his guilt.

Believing is a lot like trusting.

At its Greek root, "to believe" simply means "to give one's heart to." Thus, if we can determine what it is we give our heart to, then we will know what it is we believe.

when in doubt, act like you know what you're doing, and you'll be treated like you do.

As she voiced all this out loud for the first time, she found a long-buried inner strength, and with it a conviction that her sanity and indeed her very survival depended on her walking away.

As we shall see, for the rest of her life, the Shoah—as she [Angela Merkel] has always referred to the Holocaust—would be central to her leadership and to her conviction that Germany's debt to the Jewish people was permanent.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Moral certainty is intellectual immorality.

Theists and atheists are equally religious.

True love is like religion. It is full of devotion and free of doubt.

I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

With a clever and subtle lie, you were convinced to not exactly stop trusting in God, but to stop trusting exclusively in God. The

Multi oameni, cand incearca sa justifice de ce au sau nu au o anumita credinta, deseori au multe opinii in loc de motive.

S]he had difficulty crediting it could really happen in her own lifetime. She knew this was exactly how people would feel just before the real apocalypse, that nearly everyone who'd faced some intrusive threat to their everyday existence – war, revolution, genocide, purges, disaster – had faced it with the firm conviction that things like this just didn't happen or didn't happen here or didn't happen to people like them.

When finding that people held the same views as I, I persuaded myself that I held them differently.

How strong is a faith that can't stand up to a few honest questions?

Years ago on the flyleaf of my Bible I wrote in red ink, "The Bible says it, I believe it, and that settles it.

What we believe is a result of our thinking. If we think wrong, we will believe wrong.