Quotes About Conviction

En su mayoría, las mujeres parecen estar convencidas de que, cada vez que abren los muslos, tienen que usar el marco del melodrama para lograr que el hombre reconozca su valor. Pero en realidad, esta patética e inocente ilusión convierte a las mujeres en víctimas de la violación espiritual, unilateral.

TotuÅŸi femeile obiÅŸnuite p?reau convinse c? nu puteau s?-l fac? pe un b?rbat s? le cunoasc? valoarea decat dac?, ori de cate ori îÅŸi desf?ceau picioarele, o f?ceau ca ÅŸi cum ar fi fost eroinele unui serial. Dar aceast? iluzie, foarte patetic? ÅŸi de fapt nevinovat?, f?cea din femei victimele unui viol spiritual, unilateral.

True believers aren't real receptive to the idea that what they're telling you is just mythology.

If someone was going to hell, Kundavai would stop him and take him to heaven. That's one kind of power. But do you know what Nandini would do? It must be said that her power goes a step further. She would convince him that hell is heaven, and make him jump happily into hell!

There is a distinction between belief in a set of propositions and a faith which enables us to put our trust in them.

The conviction that religion must be rigorously excluded from political life has been called the charter myth of the sovereign nation-state.

Religious people prefer to be right rather than be compassionate.

Muhammad replied with tears in his eyes: "O my uncle, by God if they put the sun in my right hand and the moon in my left on condition that I abandon this course, until God has made it victorious, or I perish therein, I would not abandon it.

There was a growing conviction that religion had to become as rational as modern science.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.1

I kept on believing that I should come to lay my bones in Africa. For this firm faith I had no other foundation, or no other reason, than my complete incompetency of imagining anything else.

Feeding the family trumps conviction every time, Mary though, a basic law of the human condition.

It is not that I do not approve. Whatever a man's passion, he must pursue them, unless they offend God.

He kept his eyes down. He was hiding nothing, but the truth is no servant to man. You can't make someone believe you just by telling the truth any more than you can make the truth false just by not believing it.

Claire had realized a long time ago that if you lie with enough conviction, you can usually fool yourself.

She had always believed—vehemently, with great conviction—that the only way to change the world was to destroy it.

People didn't believe in you unless you convinced them that you believed in yourself.

They had been arguing about something that had seemed desperately important to Claire at the time but now she couldn't remember the topic or even when the argument had occurred. Last week? Last month? She had known Paul for eighteen years, been married to him for almost as long. There wasn't much left that they could argue about with any conviction.

the great thing about lying was people believed it so long as the lie was close enough to the truth. Lena

We think they're real." Lydia tried to play devil's advocate again. "We think that girl looked like Anna Kilpatrick. We think that she was mutilated in the same way, based on what her mother said and did during a press conference. But are we one hundred percent certain? Or are we just talking ourselves into it?" "Confirmation bias." Claire scowled at her own words. "What's the downside of calling Mayhew?

if you lie with enough conviction, you can usually fool yourself.

You sure? Sure as two fists can be.

God has not the slightest need for our proofs.

Faith is rather a freedom, a permission. It is permitted to be so—that the believer in God's Word may hold on to this Word in everything, in spite of all that contradicts it.