Quotes About Confirmation

When we are baptized and confirmed, the promised blessing is that we may always have the Holy Ghost to be with us. If you are consistently good, you will have the companionship of the Holy Ghost much of the time.

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.

Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.

One of the comments that we've heard that has really blessed us is people have been driven back to the book of Revelation to prove us wrong only to find that what we said was there.

I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

We conceptualize five main steps in the innovation-decision process: (1) knowledge, (2) persuasion, (3) decision, (4) implementation, and (5) confirmation.

We heard it from three people so it must be true

Information that confirms our beliefs makes us feel good; information that challenges our beliefs doesn't.

I am very excited to confirm I will be at BAR. I wish to thank Ferrari for six fantastic years.

We tend to accept information that confirms our prior beliefs and ignore or discredit information that does not. This confirmation bias settles over our eyes like distorting spectacles for everything we look at.

What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court.

However much we champion freedom of thought, we actually spend much of our time censoring input. We seek out publications that mirror or support our prior views and largely avoid those that don't.

The psychotic patient has beliefs that require little information to confirm them and are indeed very difficult to refute logically. They are appropriate only in the sense that they once did apply to the parents' behavior. These misconceptions cause overdramatic and totally inappropriate responses to present-day circumstances and interfere with an individual's ability to adapt. In

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's a duck!

Except for some queasiness in the morning or tiredness in the afternoon, Mary may not have noticed any real signs of her pregnancy yet. Elizabeth's words to Mary, then, were a confirmation of God's promise and more powerful than any blood test.

Nevertheless, liking and disliking do not constitute proof any more than hearsay does.

The solution has been to shift the totem of legitimacy from premises to procedures. We know an outcome is right not because it was derived from immutable principles, but because it was reached by following the correct procedures. Science became modern when it was conceived not as an empirical confirmation of truths derived from an independent source, divine revelation, but as simply whatever followed from the pursuit of scientific methods of inquiry.

Officially signed off on position I took a few

Eliot said nothing, just nodded his

But one thinks, also, of the parable of the scorpion and the frog. The scorpion acts according to its nature even when it is suicidal to do so. Additionally, or by way of confirmation, he is of brazen character, this fellow.

On my word, I think you are right, Lucien, said Albert absently.

CONSULT, v.i. To seek another's disapproval of a course already decided on.