Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
I don't consider myself a Hollywood liberal, but I have my convictions and my beliefs.
Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life, but it also comes from the mind and the heart of the artist. The photograph is his vision of the world and expresses, however subtly, his values and convictions.
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.
I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.
And a lot of times, the religious discussion is almost a masquerade for the real question, is what stories that we tell ourselves and that we tell each other and what convictions and beliefs actually have the capacity to make us the kind of people who together can make the world the kind of world we all want it to be?
There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory
The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's own convictions - not obstinately or defiantly
Neither the intensity of your feelings nor the certainty of your convictions is any assurance that you are right.
What is important is that one utilizes one's intellect and not to be 100 percent sure about one's convictions. One should always leave room for doubt.
Kiefer Sutherland has agreed to serve 48 days in jail for his DUI convictions. That's 245 months in Jack Bauer years.
We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.
Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.
a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.
Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.
If you are going to flip something, you must have the courage of your convictions.
The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.