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Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

Repetition of the same chant, the same incantations, the same affirmations leads to belief, and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were her own, and she entertained the conviction that she had a right to them and they they concerned no one but herself.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

She must find a boat and sail in it. No guarantee of shore. Only a conviction that what she wanted could exist, if she dared to find it.

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

Someone once described me as a maverick and that's what I would say. I'm a maverick not by choice but by conviction.

Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form.

So strong is the power of superstition that even though we know that we have been reverencing a sham, yet still we hesitate to admit the validity of our new-found convictions.

Sound conviction should influence us rather than public opinion.

Speak out tirelessly with conviction.

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.

Spring's first conviction is a wealth beyond its whole experience.

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied.

The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the Union of the States be cherished and perpetuated.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.

The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.

The conviction that everyone in this house must be dead had gained such a hold on Magnus that it was a shock when the woman who had summoned him here opened the door.

The Day We Let Our Convictions Define Our Life Rather Than Our Insecurities, Our True Journey Begins.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

The greatest challenge of Leadership maintaining personal conviction in a globalized world.

The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something

The [Israelis] believed - they were possessed of an absolute certainty and conviction - that 'terrorists' were in Chatila. How could I explain to them that the terrorists had left, that the terrorists had worn Israeli uniforms, that the terrorists had been sent into Chatila by Israeli officers, that the victims of the terrorists were not Israelis but Palestinians and Lebanese?

The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.

The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

The pressure of show business is on all the time and show business is a fickle business. Whatever is popular now - that's all that counts. I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.

The reason we have this inner conviction that death is not the end - and that Heaven exists - is because we were created in the image of God.

The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans.

There are real solutions right now for us if we stand up with the courage of our convictions.

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.

There should be just no end to what we can do when we operate with the courage of our convictions and we get out there in the street, in the voting booth, we assert our power and we take our democracy back.

There's a cultural conviction that any 'artist' must have personal suffering to back up their work, otherwise there's something undeserved and therefore inauthentic about it, perhaps even some sort of cheating.

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

There's one thing we need above everything else; it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

The Turkish judiciary has a very strong nationalist tradition, which is gradually changing, but only gradually. And since there was a nationalist outcry against Orhan Pamuk's remarks about Turkey's need to confront its past, I'm not surprised that one public prosecutor in an Istanbul borough should have decided to act. I don't expect the proceedings to lead to a conviction. But in any case one mustn't generalize and say that's the way Turkey behaves; it's the way one nationalist public prosecutor behaves.

The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.