Quotes About Conviction

Sometimes I am hampered by having a moral code, but I have it nonetheless, like a burr under the brain, with no way to pluck it out.

Faith is a kind of love, you know. Love of what is unseen but certain. Love makes us strong and brave.

Centuries-old ways of looking at the world, centuries-old rules, are jettisoned seemingly overnight. Traditions are mocked and banished. A man—or woman—with an unstable mind sees things falling apart. 'The center cannot hold; / mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.' To a psychopath, anarchy is exciting, the chaotic world reflects his chaotic interior life, confirms his conviction that anything should be allowed, that he can rightly do whatever he wants.

No one's more dangerous than a man who's convinced of his own moral superiority.

Some believed the most ridiculous things without a shred of evidence, but wouldn't believe a truth even when it stuck its fingers in their eyes. So to speak.

They were stories of things that had never happened and could never happen, but she told them with such quiet verve and conviction that we believed them and wanted to continue believing even after time robbed us of our sense of wonder.

Your faith could have no substance if you did not also accept the reality of its effects in this world.

A man who believes in nothing may look strong, but he's fragile. He can be made to believe in anything, for the emptiness in him yearns to be filled.

Sad to say, not all human beings were that open-minded. Some believed the most ridiculous things without a shred of evidence, but wouldn't believe a truth even when it stuck its fingers in their eyes. So to speak.

THAT WE SHOULD MEET IN THE WHIRL OF LIFE THAT spins more people apart than together, that we should find in each other so much that was compatible, that we should lift each other out of doubt and out of weakness into conviction and strength, that we should fall in love in spite of being unable to consummate it physically, a love that was of mind for mind, heart for heart, soul for soul: This rare gift was priceless.

Not at all," she assures him.

fight for me. Prove to me that you're worthy of all the faith I have in you.

She doesn't understand that some things need to be believed in

Unfortunately he'd fallen into a common trap. He was big on religion and weak on faith.

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Our truest opinions are not those we never change, but those to which we most often return.

Now look, my friend, if you come to think it out you will find that in all things our real opinion is not the one from which we have never wavered, but the one to which we have most regularly returned.

It made me in all matters a fundamentalist. I didn't go to 'take it in.' I went to be convicted.

For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people?

N?u anh không Ä'iên nhÆ°ng ng??i ta b?o vá»›i c? th? giá»›i là anh Ä'iên thì m?i ná»— lá»±c ph?n ??i nh?m ch?ng minh ng??c l?i s? càng giúp c?ng c? quan Ä'i?m c?a h?.

Integrity is the courage to maintain your resolve despite pressure or temptation, and the conviction to hold on to the truth even when everyone disagrees with you.

Romans 14:23, which says, "Whatever is not from faith is sin.

The more I see of unmechanized places and people the more conviced I become that machines have done incalculable damage by unbalancing the relationship between Man and Nature.

The Protestants seem to come here because they hate Islam and the Catholics because they love God.