conviction

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

Don't allow your mind to tell your heart what to do. The mind gives up easily

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.

Conviction, then, is no part of a sinner__ salvation__ut the clear practical knowledge of the fact that he cannot save himself, and is entirely dependent on the saving grace of God.

When comfort and ease and pleasure are put ahead of duty and conviction, progress is always set back.

The very ones whose social pressure cause you to compromise will despise you for it. They probably respect your convictions,and many of them wish they had the moral stamina to stand alone.May the Lord give you added courage to be a witness for Him,even in a hard place.

Anyone who has genuinely seen God is deeply convicted of his or her own sin.

It is the Holy Spirit who brings about conviction [of sin] . . .repentance cannot take place unless first there is a movement of the Holy Spirit in the heart and mind.

God often gives us an inner conviction or prompting to confirm which way He wants us to go. This prompting comes from the Holy Spirit.

Man seeks to excuse himself of sin, but God seeks to convict him of it and to save him from it. Sin is no amusing toy__t is a terror to be shunned! Learn, then, what constitutes sin in the eyes of God!

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.

If you forget your lines, you had better mumble with conviction.

It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

Yet none of these things gave him confidence. All they gave him was egotism, which is less the conviction of one's worth than the desire for that conviction.

There was this tendency to drift. And yet _when she thought about it, what did she really want to do? Or be? She had given up dancing-the dance-because it was too demanding, because it required an almost total devotion which she was unwilling to give. The cruelest art._

If you are convinced about your choices, go with full hope that you will get there by the grace of God!

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 the __eceitful_ thing that happened is probably to teach us a lesson not to value anything of this world, including the body. Miracles bring conviction for they demonstrate what you have just written _ the valuelessness of the body and world and the value of the Spirit, which is unchanging.

Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell.