#convict

Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right. ↗

— Chin-Ning Chu

#courage #inspirational #courage

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#criminals #god #good-and-bad #good-and-evil #heaven

Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth. ↗

— Malcolm X

#intelligence #knowledge #open-mindedness #truth #experience

The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ask for his mercy and find peace, or else it will turn against Him because it is not yet ready to give up its sinfulness. Thus He will separate the good from the bad, the wheat from the chaff. Man's reaction to this Divine Presence will be the test: either it will call out all the opposition of egotistic natures, or else galvanize them into a regeneration and a resurrection. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#jesus #regeneration #sinfulness #life

But, in fact, a person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#convictions #life #philosophy #sex #life

In some cases, I am able to respect what so many call bigots. Such people have a more solid foundation for drawing their lines when it comes to the security of their ways and quite possibly the security of mankind. They rely on something that has worked to get man this far without placing ideals blindly driven by emotion first; they have a sure line and they say, 'No.' That, in a sense, is something I find to be highly respectable. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bigotry #certainty #conviction #culture #emotions

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#begin #belief #conviction #deep #deep conviction

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#believes #convictions #doubts #great #precede

I think that people need to have the courage of their convictions and not be trying to fool people into thinking that they've changed overnight. ↗

— Chris Bell

#convictions #courage #fool #i #i think

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#because #carrying #competent #conviction #eccentric