Quotes About Conviction

When, indeed, is a thing proven? Only when an individual has accumulated in his own consciousness enough observations, impressions, reasonings and feelings to satisfy him personally that it is so. The same evidence which convinces one expert may leave another completely unsatisfied.

Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.

Again, it is a new doctrine of constitutional law that one indicted for disobedience to an unconstitutional statute may not defend on the ground of the invalidity of the statute, but must obey it though he knows it is no law, and, after he has suffered the disgrace of conviction and lost his liberty by sentence, then, and not before, seek, from within prison walls, to test the validity of the law.

The poet was, of course, always present to assist the debater. Though the logic of Lewis's Christian apologetics may be fallible, the imagination of the writing with its brilliantly-conceived analogies is itself enough to win a reader to his side. As Austin Farrer expressed it, "We think we are listening to an argument; in fact we are presented with a vision; and it is the vision that carries conviction.

Statistics are just a way for the mathematician to evangelize his faith.

My wife is in the heroin business and I am not on good terms with her,' Devendra said. Jayshree, who was also upset with her mother's attempts to keep her away from her lover and force her into the drug trade, also decided to stand witness against her. Papamani was finally convicted and put behind bars in 2004. It was ironic that the two people for whom Papamani earned turned against her. While she had so many followers, none of them were in her family.

Her only defence for shifting religious loyalties was that she was very spiritually inclined.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

You can choose to believe whatever you wish; just remember that your beliefs drive your behavior.

Your governing values should be important enough to you that you will invest your time, resources, and energy in making them a fundamental part of your life.

We need to learn from the past how to preach for deep heart conviction of sin, until people cry out in our churches also, "What must I do to be saved?

Believing, too, that is not enough. You cannot just believe. Your belief must have a purpose.

Believing is not thinking something is true, Shireen. It is acting for the truth.

Deep in the marrow of our religion is the conviction that loss and sacrifice are noble. To surrender something is the highest proof of Christian duty.

And the conviction stands that there must be knowledge to be had, if only we could get it. Perhaps that is what is wrong: an assumption about the possibility of knowledge and the kind of knowledge that it must be.

One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.

The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

What can you do with a person who says that he is absolutely uncertain about everything, and that he is absolutely certain about that?

You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.

Conviction, far from being based upon reason, is the enemy of reason; because rationality does not change, while convictions do, all the time.

Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it.

Me conviertes en un pecador si me impides darte hospitalidad.

If you forsake a path, it is because you were hoping for conviction from it. You seek conviction, not self-knowledge.