Quotes About Conviction

Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.

Black and brown people in communities like mine, when arrested are more likely to be convicted and receive harsher sentences than our white counterparts. A justice system that actually hands out justice isn't as cruel, violent and racially biased as the one we've got.

People are attracted to confidence and a commitment to ideas, no matter what those ideas are. People can gravitate towards something being said passionately or violently or expressively.

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.

The Christian apologist has become someone who is virtually expected to apologize for being a Christian, and that has to stop.

I'm abrasive. I am so sure that I'm right about virtually everything. I can sing you an aria of reasons to not like me.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.

If people are given the right circumstances and the right track and the right melody, it's about the conviction. It's not necessarily about being a God-given virtuoso.

You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.

If our principles are only our principles when it is convenient for us, when they align with our visceral emotional responses, then they are, in fact, not principles at all.

A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.

Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.

It was humbling to play Mark Ashton. He was a political activist and a humanist, and there is incredible conviction in his vision. But when you're telling a political story, humour is crucial; otherwise, it can be in danger of becoming a bit preachy, and the audience can feel like they've got an agenda coming full steam at them.

I have a vision, and I know I'm right.

I'm so skilled at convincing people of lies, but I don't know how to convince you of the truth. I love you with all my heart and all of my soul. I will love you until I draw my last breath.

Make man believe he is doing the right thing, with enough convincing powers, by any means so appropriate, then man, this being that was made superior by God, may do the most sinister thing,both imaginable and in real time

You may doubt the preacher, but never the word of God

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

Condemnation comes from guilt. Conviction is born out of grace. Condemnation leads you to conceal your sin. Conviction urges you to confess it. Condemnation results in remorse (feeling bad about what you did). Conviction calls you to repentance (turning to go the other way). Condemnation prompts you to rededicate. Conviction demands full surrender. Condemnation is a path to future failure. Conviction is a highway to real change.

There's no point discussing an engagement with a person determined that nothing will convince her that her love is not the be-all and end-all of her life.

Faith is not merely a matter of the intellect, nor of the intellect and the emotions combined; it is also a matter of the will which determines the direction of life.

I should add that all that my teachers would later teach me of the superiority of character-driven comedy over situation comedy never managed to uproot from me every child's conviction: that those who hurl cream pies at each other's faces are funny in a far more relaxing, and, therefore, at bottom more satisfying way, than the more subtle forms of what is called "wit." In fact, it is quite remarkable that these latter forms usually grow stale in less than a generation.

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.