The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The depth of your belief and the strength of your conviction determines the power of your personality. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid;… — David Seabury Copy Share Image
The feeling must come first. If you actually feel rich, if you have a deep inner conviction that you will always have… — Donald Curtis Copy Share Image
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS], they should be made more widely available. I know that… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The most noticeable weakness of Congressmen is their timidity. They fear the use to be made of their "record." They are afraid… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Unhappiness, I saw then, comes to each of us because we think ourselves at the center of the world, because we have… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace. Many, because… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
This book is dedicated to the people of America--strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but always generous and brave, with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Propaganda's content increasingly resembles information. It has even clearly been proved that a violent, excessive, shock-provoking propaganda texts leads ultimately to less… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
A good deal of editing a manuscript looks like mechanical work, as if anyone with time on their hands and a magnifying… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
How thankful we ought to be ... how thankful we are, for a prophet to counsel us in words of divine wisdom… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I don't know what happens in the next years. But I cannot now design a policy in which we try to keep… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Recently I donated money to the establishment of the Muhammad Ali Foundation in Louisville. I regard that as a kind of payback.… — Lennox Lewis Copy Share Image
The Cuban people along with international solidarity defeated this imperial position [America] in the middle of the 21st century and have demonstrated… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
“Let us return to Benjamin Rush, who foresaw the revolutionary implications of Benjamin [Lay]'s philosophy. Writing after the abolitionist movement had burst… — The Fearless Benjamin Lay Marcus Rediker Copy Share Image
I had a tremendous upbringing and foundation but as others like me have experienced, when you go to college, mom and dad… — Aaron Kampman Copy Share Image
I also believe this blessed land was set apart in a very special way, a country created by men and women who… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others. I even tell my daughters not to… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap,… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
You make a film with a lot of love and conviction and if it doesn't do well the way it was expected… — Kabir Khan Copy Share Image
We can state with conviction, therefore, that a man's support for absolute government is in direct proportion to the contempt he feels… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Faith is conviction without evidence, and sometimes even in the face of contrary evidence. In some quarters, this quality is perceived as… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of… — Jim Cramer Copy Share Image
Knowing exactly what you want to do, with unwavering conviction, is the spark that generates everything. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
CONVICTIONS are lessons learned from experiences we’d never want to go through again, but wouldn’t trade for anything in the world. — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is… — Charles Grandison Finney Copy Share Image
Convictions are the mainsprings of action, the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions. — Francis Kelley Copy Share Image
“I did not hesitate to tell them that I not only had the authority of facts, but that it was my conviction… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense. — Lawrence Joseph Henderson Copy Share Image
“Both had trouble generating conviction of their own but no trouble at all reacting to what they viewed as the false conviction… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Education ought to foster the wish for truth, not the conviction that some particular creed is the truth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image