Quotes About Convictions

I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

Having faith, beliefs, and convictions is a great thing, but your life is measured by the actions you take based upon them.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

Requiring military hospitals to perform elective abortions exposes the physicians, the nurses, the military personnel to move against their own personal convictions of life in many cases.

What we need," he wrote, "is to turn out of colleges young men with ardent convictions on the side of right; not young men who can make a good argument for either right or wrong, as their interest bids them.

If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions.

Howarth began to see that, however much it was against ones will and convictions, sides had to be taken, the dreary corrupt world of politics had to be entered by the good and dispassionate, to protect and avenge the weak. But one always entered too late.

Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired his faith. Faith?" said the Master. He had the courage of his convictions, didn't he?" That was fanaticism, not faith. Faith demands a greater courage still: to reexamine one's convictions and reject them if they do not fit the facts.

The Constitution provides that all Americans enjoy the right to live a life in accordance with their convictions of faith.

It sounds outright bland, but people here in Indiana want conscientious public servants who have deep convictions but are prepared to work across the aisle when possible.

Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution.

You follow what you think is right. There are lines that I won't cross.

L'ironia spesso nasconde l'incapacità di andare oltre le proprie convinzioni.

I'm willing to negotiate, but not compromise my core principles.

With increased awareness should come greater caution about how confessions are used at trial - and a greater willingness to overturn convictions when it becomes clear that a confession was untrue.

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

I'm an idealist. I'll die an idealist in the theater. I'll stick to my convictions if I starve to death.

You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage ' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice ' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there.

Remember, your convictions are only strong if they hold up under pressure!

Our argument is simple: A Christian who supports Trump either does not understand this person and his positions, or supports him in spite of their Christian convictions.

A team of sociologists used survey results to argue that Christian nationalism was the foundation of Trump's religious support. Opposition to Islam and keeping the United States a "Christian nation" was found to be more significant than biblical convictions.

tik?kite kaip norite, tai j?s? asmeninis reikalas, ta?iau priesak? laikykit?s, elkit?s kaip ir dera. Beje, norint elgtis kaip dera, netgi neb?tina b?ti krikš?ionimi. Galima b?ti netgi niekuo. Paskutiniu agnostiku, besparniu ateistu.