Confirmation Quotes
102 quotes by 97 authors
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Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this ordinance. Confirmation and…
— A. Theodore Tuttle
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I was raised Catholic. I was confirmed Catholic (received the sacrament of confirmation). Through my military years, I sort of lost touch with the religion.…
— Timothy McVeigh
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Persistent, internal inklings matched by external confirmation is often the way God directs believers into His will.
— Priscilla Shirer
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Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth…
— Isaac Watts
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Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere.
— Jon Ronson
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Once we make our decision, all things will come to us. Auspicious signs are not a superstition, but a confirmation. They are a response.
— Ming-Dao Deng
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Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once an idea gets into your…
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Among the greatest of all great services is the education of children, and promotion of the various sciences, crafts and arts. Praised be God, ye…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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The confirmations of the Spirit are all those powers and gifts which some are born with (and which men sometimes call genius), but for which…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
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Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.
— Calvin Miller
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Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific…
— Seth Godin
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Instead of using this space to pretend the newly released CIA 'torture' report confirms that the United States is the most evil nation in the…
— David Limbaugh
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When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and…
— Elena Kagan
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Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.
— Zell Miller
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When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for ways…
— Leonard Mlodinow
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When God puts something in your heart and deep down you know it’s a destiny moment, don’t wait for ten confirmations. Do what God is…
— Joel Osteen
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It has often been said that, to make discoveries, one must be ignorant. This opinion, mistaken in itself, nevertheless conceals a truth. It means that…
— Claude Bernard
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Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you…
— Robert Adams
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Confirmation strengthens us to defend the faith and to spread the Gospel courageously
— Pope Francis
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Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of…
— Claude Bernard
Who Wrote These Confirmation Quotes
97 authors contributed a total of 102 Confirmation Quotes, led by these top contributors: