Quotes About Confirmation

Marea majoritate a ocultistilor nu sunt manati de setea de cunoastere, de senzatia de rusine ca stiinta a omis atata timp sa ia cunostinta de problemele de netagaduit si nici de necesitatea sa-i cucereasca noi domenii fenomenale. Ei sunt mai degraba persoane convinse care cauta confirmari, care vor sa aiba o justificare, pentru a-si marturisi credinta.

Ça ne rapproche pas, le téléphone, ça confirme les distances.

Life…was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

The practical effect of this path is that I do not ask you to pray for a special whisper from God to decide if Jesus is real. Rather I ask you to look at the Jesus of the Bible. Look at him. Don't close your eyes and hope for a word of confirmation. Keep your eyes open and fill them with the full portrait of Jesus provided in the Bible. If you come to trust Jesus Christ as the Lord and God, it will be because you see in him a divine glory and excellence that is simply is what it is -- true

I like to verify things independently. It's not like any of us are infallible.

I am like an old attorney, unswayed by any sentiment whatever. I never accept any statement unless it be confirmed, according to the poetic maxim of Lord Byron, by the testimony of at least two false witnesses.

He wanted AFFIRMATION rather than INFORMATION.

It is very difficult for a recipient of secret information to believe its validity when it does not conform to his preconceived plans or ideas; he believes what he wants to believe and rejects what does not verify what he already knows, or thinks he knows.

If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

Every time the Trump people challenge me, I bring the receipts.

The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: 'Receive the Holy Ghost.' And that choice must be made not once, but every day, every hour, every minute.

The Senate should consider a rule ensuring that every judicial nominee receives a vote by the Senate within 180 days of being nominated by the president.

The day on which I received confirmation was a distressing one to me.

The book fascinated him, or more exactly it reassured him. In a sense, it told him nothing that was new, but that was part of the attraction. It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order.

The biggest problem is that Facebook and Google are these giant feedback loops that give people what they want to hear. And when you use them in a world where your biases are being constantly confirmed, you become susceptible to fake news, propaganda, demagoguery.

The Holy Ghost has as a major purpose witnessing that Jesus is the Christ. As we plead for help in His service, the Holy Ghost will come and confirm our faith in Him. Our faith in the Savior will increase. And, as we continue to serve Him, we will come to love Him.

It is one thing to suspect yourself of going mad; it is another thing entirely to discover your suspicions are correct.

I get mail; therefore I am.

I'm not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my story to placid, helpless secondary places in the narrative is so goddamn boring that I would rather not write at all.

One is our tendency to give higher credences to propositions that we want to be true. This can show up at a very personal level, as what's known as self-serving bias:

The most compelling confirmation of Marx's theory of history is late capitalist society. There is a sense in which this case is becoming truer as time passes.

Time puts an end to speculation in opinions, and confirms the laws of nature.

Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.

Está bien? Asiente con la cabeza y miente. —Sí.