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A mental picturing of that which we want, with the complete acceptance and the conviction that it is ours now, will bring it quickly.

Americanism is a question of spirit, of conviction and purpose, not creed or birthplaces. The test of our worth is the service we render.

And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.

And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.

and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.

And that's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.

Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?

A person without conviction is a weak, jellyfish type of individual who mindlessly follows the crowd.

An indictment is not a conviction.

Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.

A person is strong only when he stands upon his own truth, when he speaks and acts from his deepest convictions.

Assertion of truths known and felt, promulgation of truth from the high platform of truth itself, declaration of faith by the mouth of moral conviction--this is the New Testament method, and the true one.

As resolute as I feel about my convictions, if I'm wrong, I'm man enough to say I'm wrong, because I find it a rare occasion anyway.

Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.

Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions.

But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly, decided to do already. You go to a book to have your convictions corroborated. A book, as it were, closes the book.

Belief is not a matter of choice, but of conviction.

Be true to your own highest convictions.

Beware of making a fetish of consistency to your convictions instead of being devoted to God.

But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing in a khaki queue with your mess tins or on an automobile production line.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Communicate your passion clearly, concisely and with genuine conviction.

Confidence is something you acquire in yourself by believing in self ability with courage and conviction.

Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest.

Conviction of sin draws me away from myself and toward GodSelf-condemnation, on the other hand, draws me down into myself and away from God.

Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.

Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

Dogma is the convictions of one man imposed authoritatively upon others.

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

Don't take what someone else has made sure of and pretend it's you yourself that have made sure of it till it's yours absolutely by conviction. It's stealing to take it and hypocrisy and you'll fall into a hole.

Doubt was much more energy efficient than conviction.

Every fool stands convinced; and everyone convinced is a fool. The faultier a person's judgement the firmer their convictions.

Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.

Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.

Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.

Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.

Faith creates the foundation for conviction.

Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

For many Americans, Osama bin Laden is the paradigmatic Muslim, an absurd conviction for anyone who has lived with Muslims.