Parents must not only have certain ways of guiding by prohibition and permission, they must also be able to represent to the child a deep, almost somatic conviction that there is meaning in what they are doing.
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
Faith is only a word, embroidered.
Our religion should be incorporated within ourselves, a part of our being that cannot be laid off.
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
I really want to have a really, really strong, one-sided opinion on something, and be connected to it and tell that story. Until I find that thing or that topic or whatever it is, I don't want to direct.
Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.
Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.
I believe Barack Obama has shown a deep conviction to help those most in need, even if their voices are not always the ones heard the loudest in Washington.
There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.
When you know in your heart why you did something, and you feel and you know that in spite of all the controversy that it was right, doesn't matter.
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.
Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.
Passionate grave thought, belief enhanced, ritual returned and magic.
I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real. And I want life in every word to the extent that it's absurd.
I have considered the subject of missions nearly a year and have found my mind gradually tending to a deep conviction that it is my duty personally to engage in this service.
When you take a stand out of deep conviction, people know. They may not even agree, but they ask, 'Do I want someone who is willing to take a hard stand and someone I can trust to do that when the chips are down?' They want that.
Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
You will only sacrifice when you passionately believe in the outcome.
The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
Faith is a curious thing. It must be renewed; it has its own spring.
I think, like Ronald Reagan, in another way, in a secular way, John Paul II was a great communicator, but he was also a man of deep conviction.
The uncompromising attitude is more indicative of an inner uncertainty than a deep conviction. The implacable stand is directed more against the doubt within than the assailant without.
Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
