Pastoral Resources

Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks."

Indictments of any kind are serious. That being said, let's not forget that an indictment is not a conviction. We still have due process in this country.

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

I have lived most of my life with the conviction that I don't dream, because I never could retrieve a dream.

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable.

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.

Our firm conviction that ours is a just cause and that we must find a peaceful way to attain our goals gave us the strength and the awareness of the limits beyond which we must not go.

This conviction brought me, in the summer of 1978, to the Free Trade Unions - formed by a group of courageous and dedicated people who came out in the defense of the workers' rights and dignity.

I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.

A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.

It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination.

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.