Quotes About Conviction

I am afraid Luther will not recant, Holy Father,' Cajetan said. 'I looked into his eyes. He would not recant even facing the fire of the stake.' 'I have no problem with the fire of the stake either.' Leo X answered.

Why did you deceive me?" "Would you have listened to me if I had told you the truth straightaway? I did not have time to convince you. It was necessary to distort the truth for the sake of plausibility. Without this transitional stage you would

I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my own intellectual capacities than his justice.

È sempre più facile combattere per i propri principi che seguirli.

Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.

A mulher que quer rejeitar responde apenas não. A mulher que explica quer que a convençam.

I went to a bunch of marches in New York and Washington, and you know I believe in the cause, but to march with those people takes a lot of compromise on my end.

We never waste space saying, 'On the one hand.' We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice.

I had now been in the United States of America something like five years, working here and there as the inclination seized me, which, I must confess, was not often. I was certainly getting some enjoyment out of life, but now and then the waste of time appalled me, for I still have a conviction that I was born to a different life.

My heart aches watching Donald Trump... pouring his heart out... How can anyone doubt his sincerity?

Noah walked with God; he didn't only preach righteousness, he acted it. He went through water and didn't melt. He breasted the current of the popular opinion of his day, scorning alike the hatred and ridicule of the scoffers who mocked at the thought of there being but one way of salvation.

If you think something's right and the numbers prove it's right, then go all-in. You can't muddy the waters. You can't just go halfway.

The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to bear it. It is the sediment, not the wave, of a sex. It is the antithesis of that highest and sweetest mystery - conviction by submission, and conquest by sacrifice.

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

Our commitment to our pro-life values must never waver.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

My confidence will never waver.

I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that.

It takes real courage and conviction to attack the establishment from within and makes waves as big as a tsunami. Ted Cruz has done that - consistently and successfully - on immigration and other issues like Obamacare, voting rights, and the 2nd Amendment.

The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.

When you stand for something, you've got to stand for it all the way, not half way.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.