#conviction

Little faith is enough to see the mountains of sin but not enough to see that Son of Righteousness that shall arise over them. ↗

— Ralph Bouma

#conviction #face #faith

Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. ↗

— John Updike

#art #change #convictions #customs #facts

Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful consequences […] Perhaps only a doubter can appreciate the miracle of life without end. ↗

— Terryl L. Givens

#doubt #grey-areas #seeking #life

Faith to me is trusting in every evidence that something is―that it is possible, that it is significant, that it is real. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#belief #believing #confidence #conviction #faith

I have the courage of my convictions. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#courage #i

And their conviction is that if it is done with that kind of purity it will go somewhere. I believe that with all my heart, but I'm not responsible for its going somewhere. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#conviction #done #go #going #heart

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#chance #comfortable #conviction #enjoy #game

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#conviction #excellent #into #itself #never

No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#convictions #duty #entering #great #life