35 Quotes Tagged: conviction

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For fanaticism is the only form of willpower that even the weak and insecure can be brought to attain.

"We think we know."
"Know? That's worse than an atom bomb, and always was."

There is no greater power and support you can give someone than to look them in the eye, and with sincerity/conviction say, 'I believe in you.

True conviction is believing something to be right even after it becomes disadvantageous to you.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

There is no power but in conviction.

When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect.

The great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination.

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own

How often have you and I helped to keep sinners easy in their sin, by our inconsistency! Had we been true Christians, the wicked man would often have been pricked to the heart, and his conscience would have convicted him.

Doubtless. But only if the first be truly won — if the Kirk attend to the work of salvation and does not expend her toil in barren fields. Her sovereign must be King Jesus. Take heed that instead it be not King Covenant.

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

I seek above all things to bring men and women to God's mercy-seat.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

35 Quotes Tagged: conviction

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