Quotes About Conviction

I don't say you're self-censoring - I'm sure you believe everything you're saying; but what I'm saying is, if you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting.

Doubt is to me the handmaiden to faith, its cop, the one that keeps faith straight. To doubt is an indication of freedom and a guard against fanaticism.

You have to believe in it to get it...

Knowing isn't always believing.

What people know, what they believe, what they accept? Those are all different matters, aren't they?

People who say not to speak ill of the dead just don't have the spine to say what they think." "You've

When you know the answer, it's not being hardheaded. It's just being right.

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I'm not moving in with you. Yes, you are.

it, if you'll trust me." She laid her

occurred to him he wouldn't have to argue with himself the

One who claims to be a skeptic of one set of beliefs is actually a true believer in another set of beliefs." —PHILLIP E. JOHNSON

And in our culture today, tolerance no longer means to put up with something you believe to be false (after all, you don't tolerate things you agree with). Tolerance now means that you're supposed to accept every belief as true!

Beliefs cannot change a fact, no matter how sincerely they are held. (Someone can sincerely believe the world is flat, but that only makes that person sincerely mistaken.)

Augustine was right when he said that we love the truth when it enlightens us, but we hate it when it convicts us. Maybe we can't handle the truth. In

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive. —BLAISE PASCAL

Forcing people to "freely" believe is a contradiction in terms. God is love (1 John 4:16), and love cannot work coercively – only persuasively.

Belief requires assent not only of the mind but also of the will.

doubt.Therefore, it takes a lot more faith to be a non-Christian than it does to be a Christian.

All the world's stupidest people are either zealots or atheists. If you want to truly deduce how intelligent someone is, just ask this person how they feel about any issue that doesn't have an answer; the more certainty they express, the less sense they have. This is because certainty only comes from dogma.

Is there anything more attractive than a polite person with limitless self-belief? There is not. Avoiding villainy is not that different from avoiding loneliness: First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

Don't confuse disbelief and doubt. Doubt is healthy inquiry. Disbelief is a willful choice.

Even a killer needs to talk, to tell his life story, so bad he'll come and sit beside a grave or a rotting body and just blab, blab, blab at it for hours. Until he makes sense. Until the killer can convince himself with the story of his new reality. The reality that--he was right.

Palci mi stahuje kalhoty pÃ…â"¢es boky a Ã…â"¢íká: Chci, abys do mÄ› vložil víru.