Convinced Quotes - Page 33

• The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Powerful, Men, Needs

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1848). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and a Continuation”, p.514

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• If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Men, Average, Done

  Dwight L Moody (1884). “To the Work!: Exhortations to Christians”, p.70, Moody Publishers

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• I am perfectly convinced that whatever the gospels are they are not legends. I have read a great deal of legend and I am quite clear they are not that sort of thing....Christ bent down and scribbled in the dust with His finger. Nothing comes of this. No one has based any doctrine on it. And the act of inventing little irrelevant details to make an imaginary scene more convincing is purely a modern art.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Dust, Details

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• Although I have lived through much darkness, I have seen enough evidence to be unshakably convinced that no difficulty, no fear is so great that it can completely suffocate the hope that springs eternal in the hearts of the young... Do not let that hope die! Stake your lives on it! We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures; we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of his Son.

  Pope John Paul II

  Father, Spring, Real

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• Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is unthinkable and impossible.

  Ernest Holmes

  Attitude, Ideas, Impossible

  Ernest Holmes (2012). “The Science of Mind Collection”, p.199, Penguin

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• I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Men, Companionship

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.72, Beacon Press

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• I’m convinced that a world in which girls are educated is a safer, more stable, more prosperous place.

  Barack Obama

  Girl, World, Educated

  "Obama: 'Every girl deserves an education'". www.washingtonexaminer.com. March 7, 2015.

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• I finally became convinced that the theory of creation actually had a much better scientific basis than the theory of evolution, for the creation model was actually better able to explain the physical and biological complexity in the world.

  Roy Spencer

  Theory Of Evolution, World, Able

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• In my senior year of high school, I was working at a dealership washing cars. For some reason, I asked them to give me a shot as a salesman for a shift. What happened was I sold two cars in one day and they offered me the position. After a while I decided I didn't want the job and so I told the manager I'd contracted HIV from having unprotected sex. It was only half true but I'd been feeling sick and somehow convinced myself I was really dying. I remember I sat in my boss' office, the both of us crying. Later than night he calls my dad and says 'I'm sorry your son has HIV.' It was terrible.

  Nick Thune

  Senior, Jobs, Sex

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• I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.

  Wess Stafford

  Children, Divine, Minutes

  Wess Stafford (2013). “Just a Minute: In the Heart of a Child, One Moment ... Can Last Forever.”, p.17, Moody Publishers

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• I guess for my skin, I clean it and moisturize and try to drink water. How boring is this though? I'm convinced that it comes from within. If you're happy and healthy, it shows.

  Olivia Wilde

  Water, Healthy, Skins

  "Olivia Wilde Talks Adventures in Beauty". Interview with Taylor Barringer, www.elle.com. March 27, 2013.

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• Those who would practice magic must be scrupulously honest in their personal lives. In one sense, magic works on the principle that 'it is so because I say it is so.' For words to take on such force, you must be deeply and completely convinced that it is identified with truth as you know it. To a person who practices honesty and keeps commitments, 'As I will, so mote it be' is not just a pretty phrase; it is a statement of fact.

  Starhawk

  Honesty, Commitment, Practice

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• I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.

  Adam Driver

  School, Mean, Play

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• I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life.

  James Callis

  "Battlestar Galactica's James Callis". Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. June 12, 2008.

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• When you are convinced that everything that happens is the will of God, what is there to do but wait until God has mercy?

  Maaza Mengiste

  Waiting, Mercy, Gods Will

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• The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.

  Alan Bennett

  Science, Two, Medicine

  1973 Habeas Corpus.

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• We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.

  George Carey

  Religious, Hands, Scripture

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• A man who is convinced of the truth of his religion is indeed never tolerant. At the least, he is to feel pity for the adherent of another religion but usually it does not stop there. The faithful adherent of a religion will try first of all to convince those that believe in another religion and usually he goes on to hatred if he is not successful. However, hatred then leads to persecution when the might of the majority is behind it.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Believe, Successful

  Robert N. Goldman, Albert Einstein (1997). “Einstein's God: Albert Einstein's Quest as a Scientist and as a Jew to Replace a Forsaken God”, Jason Aronson Incorporated

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• Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For such people tolerance is an act of self-abnegation; although they are convinced that those who differ from them must be wrong, they nevertheless will protect their rights.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Religious, Rights, Self

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• An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had convinced him that he was wrong, his pride would have made it difficult for him to back down and give in.

  Dale Carnegie

  Pride, Giving, Down And

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.40, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• ...it would be a simple way of solving the goiter problem. And in addition to that it would be the biggest thing in a medical proposition to be carried out in the state of Michigan, and Michigan is a large place. And as I thought of the thing the more convinced I became that this oughtn't to be a personal thing, This ought to be something done by the Michigan State Medical Society as a body. Recommending the addition of a trace of iodine to table salt.

  David Murray Cowie

  Simple, Iodine, Would Be

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• Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Lobbyists, Lobbying, Pressure

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• Yes, I think I use the term radical rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as atheist some people will say, Don't you mean agnostic? I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one...etc., etc. It's easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal and that it's an opinion I hold seriously.

  Douglas Adams

  Being Yourself, Atheist, Believe

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• Believe me, blond hair can take you really far, especially with the older men. It can really distract from the face. I am convinced I could have had sex with both Tony Bennett and John McCain if we weren't each happily married at the time we all met.

  Amy Poehler

  Sex, Believe, Men

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

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• To say that one need art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguity and contradiction is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things as evil. However, it might stop one being so utterly convinced of the certainty of one's own solutions. There needs to be a strong understanding of fallibility and how the very act of certainty or authoritativeness can bring disasters.

  William Kentridge

  Strong, Art, Evil

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