Quotes About Conviction

Your mind is made up but your mouth is undone.

Los mejores carecen de toda convicción, En tanto que los peores Están llenos de apasionada intensidad.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

They Said, "what sign can you give us to see, so that we may believe you?" - John 6: 30 - 31 You do not believe although you have seen... - John 6: 36 - 37

They said, "What sign can you give us to see, so that we may believe." —John 6:30–31 "You do not believe although you have seen." —John 6:36–37

People are more likely to be persuaded by what they hear themselves say.

developing compassion: There is a developmental process for cultivating compassion for others. . . . The first step is knowledge. . . . Then you need to constantly reflect and internalize this knowledge . . . to the point where it will become a conviction. It becomes integrated into your state of mind. . . . Then you get to a point where it becomes spontaneous. (The Dalai Lama & Ekman, 2008, pp.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

In a short time God began to manifest His power and soon the building could not contain the people. Now the meetings continue all day and into the night and the fire is kindling all over the city and surrounding towns. Proud, well-dressed preachers come in to "investigate." Soon their high looks are replaced with wonder, then conviction comes, and very often you will find them in a short time wallowing on the dirty floor, asking God to forgive them and make them as little children.

No hinge nor loopTo hang a doubt on.

Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now.

I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

Some might say that one's faith is a private matter and should not be spoken of so publicly. They might assert this in public, but what do they really think in their hearts? The fact is, those who say such things usually don't even have a concern for faith in the privacy of their interior lives.

Nor is it only in prophane history that instances like these are to be found, of persons committing the greatest crimes with a sincere conviction of the rectitude of their conduct. Scripture will afford us parallels; and it was surely to guard us against the very error which we have been now exposing, that our blessed Saviour forewarned his disciples: "The time cometh, that whosoever [Pg 13] killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Cause one way or the other," I said, rolling a fat one, "it's all gonna work out." "And what makes you so goddamn sure?" I took a hit and held it in. When I exhaled, I said, slowly but deliberately, "It's a matter of faith, Waylon. And I got enough faith to last me this lifetime and whatever lifetimes come next.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

They fight and kill each other. Instead of respecting another man's way, they stop at nothing to get him to adopt their way. Like the Mormons." The

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Fanatic. One who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.