Quotes About Conviction

There are people out there who don't like me, and that's because I speak out the way I feel.

I'm just the messenger here. I'm just another representative of my faith, so to speak.

You'll never get me to speak religion. You'll never get me to speak politics.

Fight for what you believe in, speak your mind, and don't be afraid.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I've been there.

I don't speak out of place, but if you ask me, I will definitely speak the truth. Also, my opinion is my opinion. I don't feel the need to force anybody to agree or disagree with me. But if you ask me, I do feel it's important to speak with confidence about my feelings about whatever the questions are.

I don't believe in letting my words speak for me, I let my actions speak.

I make no apologies for the fact that I have a religious life of my own. I'm speaking as a Christian because I'm speaking as myself.

Rex Ryan is definitely a very confident individual and, when you have someone who believes firmly in what he's speaking, you naturally absorb it.

Judy Hopps truly believes in something. We're not just giving her the run of the story, where we give her everything. Through her actions, she has to prove what she believes in. Personally speaking, I think that's cool.

There's nothing I hate more than someone who speaks in the draft room with absolute conviction, but they have nothing to back it up.

I think my play speaks for itself.

While the other parties look at polls and focus groups to decide what they stand for, and pander to every special interest group, we follow our principles.

You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

I am not a guy who can write speeches and when I speak I speak from the heart, I just say what I feel and what I believe in.

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change.

I don't think my spirituality has affected my character. I feel like my character is much more cynical about his beliefs, and I think I have to kind of drop what I believe in order to play him.

All Christians should be able to articulate reasons why they believe what they believe - not just for the sake of our spiritually confused friends, but also so that we ourselves will have a deeper and more confident faith.

Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.

To me, the difference between a good marriage and a great marriage is conviction.

To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.