Quotes About Conviction

I'll never get over it, I'm going to defend it forever.

Some things just have to be believed to be seen." —PHILIP YANCEY

If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.

for the skeptic no proof is possible, and for the "believer" no proof is necessary.

One has to have the experience of really believing before one can have the thrill of liberation.

Here's a real man!" I said. "It's been pretty transparent all along that other people's opinions about these things wouldn't be enough for you.

Todas las religiones pretenden estar en la exclusiva posesión de la verdad; "preconizar la fe ciega sobre un punto de creencia, es confesar su impotencia en demostrar que se tiene razón".

No one really can have any idea if it's luck or happenstance or timing or fate or the universe or just smart choices that grant you a good life, a happy one. All we can do is decide to own our choices no matter what, to honor them and ourselves as best we can. That whatever is within our control (and there is plenty that is not) is ours. Mine. Responsibility. Conviction.

Allison Winn Scotch

Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.

Joe Solomon is many things, Cammie. But crazy? Crazy is the one that I don't think I'll ever believe. - Mr Smith

Pero toda rebeldía contra la imagen paterna, magnificada y opresora, se paga durante el resto de la vida. La única manera de salir de ese laberinto, por el que todos nos internamos alguna vez, es llegar a la convicción de que al padre, en vez de substituirlo, hay que intentar prolongarlo, en la medida de nuestras propias fuerzas y de nuestros propios demonios. No es fácil, ni suele ser grato, pero no existe otro camino para enfrentar el reto de vivir nuestra propia vida.

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1

The natural theologian does not, typically, offer his arguments in order to convince people of God's existence; and in fact few who accept theistic belief do so because they find such an argument compelling. Instead the typical function of natural theology has been to show that religious belief is rationally acceptable.

Seeing is believing

Sometimes you just have to act on your own. Sometimes you have to do what you know inside to be right.

Sometimes you just have to take a leap of faith, tune out what you see before you, what other people tell you, and focus on what you know deep down inside your own heart.

Terkadang kita semata-mata harus bertindak atas dasar pertimbangan kita sendiri. Terkadang kita harus melakukan hal yang kita yakini kebenarannya di lubuk hati.

She can be angry, but if she's going to fight me, she's got to be sure in her own self what she's mad about.

Si me obstino, significa que tengo razón, piensen lo que piensen los demás.

Experiencing criticism definitely makes you a little weaker at times, but in the end, it's made me a lot stronger. It's made me have conviction about something that I can stand for. It's made me want to fight for something.

Without any doubt, I'm convinced that Hillary Clinton represents less individuality, flexibility for the states, a weaker national defense. And you know, for all those reasons, we ought to get behind Donald Trump.

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.