I must honestly declare my conviction that, since the days of the Reformation, there never has been so much profession of religion… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
You...you lost your faith?" "No...just my convictions. I still very much believe in God- just not a god who condones human tithing."… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Our greatest challenge today is to couple conviction with doubt. By conviction, I mean some pragmatically developed faith, trust, or centeredness; and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most promising trend in our thinking about leadership is the growing conviction that the purposes of the group are best… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Worst of all, however, is the devastation wrought by the misuse of religious conviction for political ends. In truth, we cannot sharply… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
People who harbor strong convictions without evidence belong at the margins of our societies, not in our halls of power. The only… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Even before he left the room, — and certainly, not five minutes after, the clear conviction dawned upon her, shined bright upon… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
The intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or false. The importance… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
Listen to the advice of others, but follow only what you understand and can unite in your own feeling. Be firm, be… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
For the far higher task of teaching fortitude and patience I was never fool enough to suppose myself qualified, nor have I… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom'… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I think I'm the best candidate not just to beat President Obama, but to do what is necessary to get this country… — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
A better way to mutual respect is to engage directly with the moral convictions citizens bring to public life, rather than to… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
In the hands of a determined Secretary, the Foreign Service can be a splendid instrument, staffed by knowledgeable, discreet, and energetic individuals.… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
He who floats with the current, who does not guide himself according to higher principles, who has no ideal, no convictions-such a… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Whenever the conviction of God’s Spirit comes there is the softening of the whole nature to obey; but if the obedience is… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Each believer comes to understand his or her significance in relationship to the whole Body, and the conviction begins to take hold:… — Danny Silk Copy Share Image
This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
It is my deep personal conviction that abortion is wrong. I hope that some day we will see the current outrageously large… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
We are... living in a free society without the faith that built that society - and without the conviction and dedication needed… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The sick-room becomes the scene of intense convictions; and among these, none, it seems to me, is more distinct and powerful than… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I know that it is often difficult to stand up for one's beliefs when they are being harshly challenged. But as one… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You sit there for hours, days… — Bjorn Ulvaeus Copy Share Image
One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
The way to build superior long-term returns is through preservation of capital and home runs...When you have tremendous conviction on a trade,… — Stanley Druckenmiller Copy Share Image
Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
People who carry in their hearts a strong conviction concerning the living reality of the Almighty and their accountability to Him for… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
We should stop looking to law to provide the final answer… Law cannot save us from ourselves… We have to go out… — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
It may be that true happiness lies in the conviction that one has irremediably lost happiness. Then we can begin to move… — Maria Luisa Bombal Copy Share Image
Darwinian evolution may be the most truthful and powerful idea ever generated by Western Science, but if we continue to illustrate our… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Whereas much of what we know from ancient history is derived from one or two sources, we have no fewer than nine… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
Allow me to add that it is my conviction that the contents of Der Stuermer as such were not (incitement). During the… — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image