Quotes About Conviction

Quizá no estaba seguro de lo que me interesaba realmente, pero, en todo caso, estaba completamente seguro de lo que no me interesaba.»

she hadn't tried to end her life because she was miserable, but because she had managed to convince herself that there was no way out of her misery

As well as being highly critical of everything Nora did, and everything Nora wanted, and everything Nora believed, unless it was related to swimming, Nora had also felt that simply to be in his presence was to commit some kind of invisible crime. Ever since the ligament injury that thwarted his rugby career, he'd had a sincere conviction that the universe was against him. And Nora was, at least she felt, considered by him as part of that same universal plan.

How good, and how strong, it is to take a principled position

As soon as ever God by his Spirit convinces our consciences of any sin or duty we must immediately set in with the conviction, and prosecute it, as those that are not ashamed to own our former mistake.

We must never be drawn into sin by any thing that man can say or do to us, for it will not justify us to say that we were so drawn in.

The justice and truth of God are here written in bloody characters, for the conviction or the confusion of all those that make a jest of his threatenings. Let them not be deceived, God is not mocked.

is better to incur the world's hatred, by testifying against its wickedness, than gain its good-will by going down the stream with it.

Unbelief shall be left inexcusable, and convicted of a wilful obstinacy.

Joan of Arc wrote, "I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and yet they give their lives to that little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it and then it's gone. But to surrender what you are and to live without belief is more terrible than dying—even more terrible than dying young.

Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves stomach if they were ushered in to witness the scene.

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

She saw that he couldn't live in a way other than the one he thought was right, and when he saw what the right thing was, like now, he cared about it as if it were the only thing that mattered.

l'humble prend ses décisions selon ce qu'il estime être juste et s'y tient, sans s'inquiéter ni de son image ni du qu'en-dira-t-on.

And when they are told, 'Believe as other people have believed,' they say, 'Are we to believe just as fools believe?' Surely they are the fools, even though they do not realize it. 14 When they meet those who believe, they say, 'We believe.' But when they are alone with their evil leaders, they say, 'We are really with you; we were only mocking.' 15

and believe in Me, so that they may be rightly

I have never lost my faith in God.

If I tell some one that I love him – as I may have told a hundred others – my words will convey nothing to him; but the silence which will ensue, if I do indeed love him, will make clear in what depths lie the roots of my love, and will in its turn give birth to a conviction, that shall itself be silent; and in the course of a lifetime, this silence and this conviction will never again be the same. …

I don't need faith.

Wieso seid ihr stärker als die Wahrheit

Baptism separates the tire kickers from the car buyers.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them to see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

The highest court is in the end one's own conscience and conviction—that goes for you and for Einstein and every other physicist—and before any science there is first of all belief.

One must read the journals of this period, and must hear the philistines talk, to get the horrible conviction that one is shut up in a house with fools. 'Thou shalt not call thy brother a fool; if thou dost . . . ' But I do not fear the curse, and I say, my brothers are arch-fools.