Quotes About Convictions

worldview, the convictions by which we direct our lives.

When we learn how to be in an intimate relationship without abandoning our sense of self, when we learn how to be kind without being self-sacrificing, when we learn how to cooperate with others without betraying our standards and convictions, we are practicing self-assertiveness.

The human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirit strong, even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation. Your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty.

Man transmits ideas to the subconscious through his feelings. The subconscious transmits ideas from mind to mind through telepathy. Your unexpressed convictions are transmitted to them without their conscious knowledge or consent, and if subsconsciously accepted by them will influence their behaviour.

The transformation of self requires that we meditate on a given phrase, a phrase which implies that our ideal is realized, and inwardly affirm it over and over and over again until we are inwardly affected by its implication, until we are possessed by it. Hold fast to your noble inner convictions or "conversations.

The cultured man has the obligation to be intolerant.

A little patience in dealing with a fool helps us avoid sacrificing our good manners to our convictions.

The growing number of people who consider the modern world "unacceptable" would comfort us, if we did not know that they are captives of the same convictions that made the modern world unacceptable.

Whoever appeals to any science in order to justify his basic convictions inspires distrust of his honesty or his intelligence.

All science feeds on the convictions that it strangles.

Man abides in truth. As one prizes truth, so one cherishes oneself. Whoever betrays truth, betrays himself. We speak not of lies here, but rather of acts against convictions.

Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say "No," though all the world say "Yes.

People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else.

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

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.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.

Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God.

What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.

Which of my convictions have more to do with my own personal preferences than with God's revelation?

When it comes to essential things, no one is tolerant.

Chess players tend to have the same biased attitude, convictions and irritants. e toward the game as they do toward the world, with their own likes and dislikes

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

A value is a rule, principle, or belief that gives meaning to your life.