Quotes About Conviction

It's not illegal to pray. We can own a Bible. We can utter Jesus's name without fear of being tossed into jail or killed. When we refuse to bow down to the idols of our culture we may lose our job. We may lose some friends. But we won't be thrown into a fiery furnace.

For most of us, beliefs are intellectual. Acting upon them is optional.

Then there's Daniel. He's the poster child for hanging tough and doing the right thing no matter what. All he had to do to avoid the horrifying prospect of being eaten alive by lions was to stop publicly praying to God for thirty days. Thirty days. Not forever. Just thirty days.13 But he wouldn't go there. He knew that a path called disobedience was far worse than a valley called death. So he kept praying and ended up in a lion's den. Suppose he'd looked

It's about knowing yourself, knowing your values, and becoming uncompromising in your willingness to do whatever it takes to stand up for them.

He pried Clara's arms loose and stood up, smoothing his wrinkled coat. Clara looked straight into his face. Her eyelids were red, but her gaze was like a lance. Dr. Wintermute had a sudden, uncomfortable conviction that she had seen into his soul. It was a look he was to remember often in the weeks to come.

Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again.

I explained all this to the police, but they didn't seem too convinced.

What the Zamperinis were experiencing wasn't denial, and it wasn't hope. It was belief.

His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.

I always let you decide. If you decide wrong, I work to change your mind.

I'm not going to ask for your forgiveness, because you only ask for that if you think you're doing something wrong. I don't care what anyone says, this isn't wrong" -Loretta

You don;t believe me?" He sound wounded, like the thought of me not believing him makes him incredibly sad. "No." "Then come with me," he says. He unfolds his long legs and stands up. "To Cooley's. You'll see they just posted the schedule. If I'm lying, I'll buy you a chocolate shake." "And If you're not?" "Then I'll still buy you a chocolate shake." He grins at me.

This is the hill you want to die on? Really? A we-can-be-just-friends speech?

Some days, I believe the Christian story even more than I believe in Australia. After all, I have never been to Australia, it is just a picture on a map. I don't know if I will ever go there, but I know that eventually I am going to Glory. Living the Christian life, however, is not about that Australia kind of believing. It is about a promise to believe even when you don't.

Everyone who's ever had intentions knows they mean much more than actions do.

Getting better was a grief. One morning you woke up and your fever had fled. Your throat felt depressingly fine.

It does not manifest so that you can believe in it. You believe in it so that it can manifest.

He convinced Gil Eannes, a Portuguese explorer, to try once more

Ferdinand Magellan never thought of himself as anything other than a devout Catholic.

We think we believe what we know, but we only truly believe what we feel.

Persuasion hung upon his lips.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

She had learned that when people were bent on doing something they believed was a good deed, it was usually impossible to dissuade them.

Tinha aprendido que quando as pessoas estavam decididas a fazer algo que acreditavam ser uma boa ação, em geral era impossível dissuadi-las.