Quotes About Conviction

If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.

went off full of fire and conviction and derring-do.

People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He's stopped believing.

If you believe it," Evie told her once, "everyone else will, too. Sell it to yourself and the world will follow your lead.

She nodded thoughtfully. "Well, I've found men will believe almost anything when their blood is flowing away from their brains.

Live as if you have faith," she said, "and faith shall be given to you.

Nunca te comprometas en aquello que tu corazón no te diga que es correcto

If I were to persuade just one person to stop fighting for something they were convinced was worthwhile, I would end up persuading myself, and my whole life would be diminished.

I can do anything I must, and I must do this.

There is no god." I've said that sentence on Glenn Beck's TV show in front of his live audience at his studio in the Texas Bible Belt. I've told Republicans that I like immigrants. I've told Democrats that I dig rich people. I've told sane people that I like lawyers. But

IF [GOD] HAS SPOKEN, WHY IS THE UNIVERSE NOT CONVINCED?

when the Holy Spirit points out our sins, that is conviction, not condemnation.

Guilt and condemnation are meant to destroy us, but conviction is meant to bring us to repentance.

Ah well, I suppose that's the problem with trying to make others follow your own beliefs: what starts out as spiritual ardor too often becomes arrogance and bigotry.

How do you know it's not true if you don't believe in it?

If healing is what you want, your first step is to be open to the possibility that literal truth is not the most important consideration. The conviction that it really happened, the fear that it may have happened, the subtle searching for evidence that it did happen, can all get in your way as you try to hear what the felt sense wants to tell you about what it needs to heal.

For example, it is often said today that Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were Deists. Yet, each man in a variety of contexts spoke earnestly of their conviction as Theists—that God was both approachable by man and that God played an ever-active role in the affairs of man.

Consider Thomas Jefferson's declaration: "God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed our only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?

Likewise, consider the statement of Benjamin Franklin delivered at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787: "I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of man.

You become a director by calling yourself a director and you then persuade other people that this is true.

Here we sense a parallel: Facino's conviction that his power to "see" gold has blinded him sounds very much like the narrator's fear that his preternatural insight into the lives of others, allowing him passage into their very bodies and souls, may be an abuse of his mental faculties—the word "abus" is used in both these instances.

I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they're right, you'll change your mind.

We live this life by a kind of conspiracy of grace: the common assumption, or pretense, that human existence is 'good' or 'matters' or has 'meaning,' a glaze of charm or humor by which we conceal from one another and perhaps even ourselves the suspicion that it does not, and our conviction in times of trouble that it is overpriced - something to be endured rather than enjoyed.

You believe what you must in order to stave off the conviction that it's all a tale told by an idiot