A lot of people are capable, Neelkanth. What makes a capable person truly dangerous is his conviction.

If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as...

How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.

I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not.

Grace works ahead of us to draw us toward faith, to begin its work in us. Even the first fragile intuition of conviction of sin, the first intimation of our need of God, is the...

People will see what a man of integrity (Ashcroft) is, a man of strength, a man of conviction. They have concerns, and will raise them in a partisan manner, but we are very confident he...

Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.

And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric’s destiny to be built, for...

Its all about perspective, that is how you look at things. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether an experience, event, situation whatever is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.

White-collar crime convictions are deterrents, I’ve seen a lot of that. Imprisoning heads of state is a deterrent, too. It doesn’t happen very often.

It’s been a very choppy day. There is no conviction in the market.

Our hearts bear a similarity with storerooms. We hold in them our trampled convictions, our fears, suppressed acts of valor, disappointments, enmity, anguish, secrets, things we wish we should have done, things we wish we...

How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can’t see the image of God?

When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don’t trip…allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for...

An indefatigable man moved by conviction that for the common good one has to search for truth.

I’m not offended until you think I’m offended.

Walk free from the long shadows cast by small people.

It’s absolutely stupid. If you’ve been really, really good and have one simple conviction 30 years ago, these things should age out like they do in criminal court.

If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza’s Amor Dei Intellectualis, they would hardly have been capable of that untiring devotion...

I don’t think we can read anything at all into it. It’s a lack of conviction and a lot of fence-sitting.

See failure as an opportunity to try again with a relatively powerful approach, skill, knowledge and conviction. Redefine yourself.

Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.

Its all about perception, that is how you look at. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

It’s a Nortel day. Technically there may be some damage done here and it’s really testing people’s conviction in Nortel.

If we recognize that Spirit is all powerful, and cannot be hurt, and that only Spirit exists, then nothing that happens here matters. And we see everyone and everything from the point of wholeness. Even...

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.

Keep at it. Persistence does pay dividends. But there is a catch; you gotta believe it before manifestation will validate conviction as [your] truth. And sacrifice is a required path to fulfillment.

Challenge authority; the authority of your own rational convictions.

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything – that is the definition of conviction.

Are we willing to shun vain repetition and keep our prayers out of an unchallenging rut by asking God to make us more sensitive to our own sin?

What saddens us is that, even though we got the conviction, the person’s still out. Hopefully this will all be remedied by finding him and putting him in prison where he belongs.

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do — a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil.

This meeting greatly strengthened my conviction that cooperation between both countries may have another strong boost. We identified a desire for cooperation in all levels of government, not only of the Executive, but also of...

Sometimes what you love to do could even make many people to hate you. You may go through non-formal torments, character assassinations, verbal assaults and societal rejections, but if you are convinced about your love...

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

Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination

The high-tech sector is relatively weak; there’s not a lot of conviction. It’s lost favor with investors who would in the past see Nortel down a dollar and want to buy. We’re not seeing that...

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...

The person who hurt you–who raped you or killed your family–is also here. If you are still angry at that person, if you haven’t been able to forgive, you are chained to him. Everyone could...

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

There is no respect between the souls of two individuals if their minds can’t trust each other and there is no trust between them if their hearts can’t accept the truth of each other.

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...

He may have as strong a sense of what would be right, as you can have, without being so equal under particular circumstances to act up to it.””Then, it would not be so strong a...

[Philippine President Joseph Estrada said he was saddened by the conviction.] It’s very unfortunate and what happened is saddening, … If he really is innocent, then the day will come that his name will be...

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.