Best 432 quotes in «conviction quotes» category

However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.

I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect. . . Geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics.

I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness.

I am not a consensus politician. Im a conviction politician.

I am not a politician, and I will never be, and I say that with absolute conviction.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.

I approach this with - with an open mind and I'll do it on the basis of a deep conviction with President-elect Donald Trump.

I don't personally believe that villains exist. Villains are just a way of saying that somebody has an opposing conviction.

I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.

I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady." Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.

If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.

If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS], they should be made more widely available. I know that there are those who, out of sincere religious conviction, oppose such measures. And with these folks, I must respectfully but unequivocally disagree.

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

If you don't have the ability to see when to stand up and the conviction to do it, you'll never be an effective leader.

If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.

If you have political convictions... keep 'em to yourself

If you’re afraid to defend your convictions because you might get your ass kicked for it, you’re not really fit to advocate for them.

I have a firm conviction that I am immortal until my work is done.

If your theological convictions are not producing a deeper love for others, then it's time to rethink some stuff.

If you're willing to give convicts time served and let them walk, why do you want to give them a criminal record? I mean, either they should be in jail, or be free. But it's all because of some internal bureaucratic stat about getting a felony conviction for the prosecutor. Everyone's got their own little game to play, but that prosecutorial part of it is not well known.

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

I have a conviction that it's only when you are put at full stretch that you can realise your full potential.

I have always held the conviction that American citizens should keep as much of their hard-earned money as possible.

I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. Momentary success carries more power of conviction than reflections upon principles.

I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated and repeated in every part of its interior so that wherever you are, inside or outside, the building sings with the same message.

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is only social science applied to economic problems.

I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

I have served a sufficiently long sentence. I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offense. ... Everyone who contributes to the 'too much' of literature is doing grave social injury.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.

I love opposition that has convictions.

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.

I'm a man of convictions. If you press me about how I feel about an issue, you're going to see my convictions.

I must honestly declare my conviction that, since the days of the Reformation, there never has been so much profession of religion without practice, so much talking about God without walking with Him, so much hearing God's words without doing them.

In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.

In our timidity and our shoddy opportunism we are always stirred when a man appears on the horizon willing to stake his all on a conviction.

In the matter of faith, we have the added weight of hope to that of reason in the convictions which we sustain relating to a future state.

In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.

I rejected the God that was portrayed as masculine and judgmental and cruel at times. The concept of us bring not worthy to receive him is something I used to say every Sunday in church, and eventually I just couldn't say it with any conviction.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.

It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.