I remember saying to him: "Why the devil can't you leave another man's religious convictions alone?
He has as much right to his convictions as you have to yours.
I've only got instincts and these convictions come down on instincts like a hammer on an egg.
They've all gotconvictions and I believe I haven't any convictions.
Convictions," he had said, and often in the welter of antagonistic convictions of 1913 thought again, "Convictions.
Yes, and narrower than that, not convictionsbut conviction.
And narrower than that--not only convictions but conviction.
Thus, all of us have felt the temptation of seeking to please others by an unmanly assenting to their opinion, even when our own independent convictions did not agree with theirs.
My purpose is to recall conditions and experiences that may prove of historical interest and to express some of the conclusions and convictions formed in an active and happy life.
The extracts of which this chapter is composed are selections from the editorial columns of The Pacific Unitarian, submitted not as exhibits in the case of achievement, but as indicating the convictions I have formed on the way of life.
Like a solitary, enraged spider he weaves this out of his own substance, out of the most cherished convictions of his brain and the deepest emotions of his heart.
An officer, instead of raging and storming over the army lists, busies himself in inventing some new disguise for a masked ball; a magistrate, instead of counting the convictions he has secured, provides a magnificent supper.
These convictions must unquestionably have their own pain, and severe was its kind; but they precluded that pain which Lady Russell would suffer in entering the house again, and returning through the well-known apartments.
She had never heard him speak so openly before, and though it told her no more than what she had long perceived, it was a stab, for it told of his own convictions and views.
These symbols of religious faith are not the productions of cold, speculative reasoning, but the statement of truth wrought into the convictions of the devout and spiritually minded.
In the sermon the convictions of the man are not sacrificed.
Yet essential and sanctifying as this is, more essential in his opinion is an honest mind,--a mind that is faithful in the pursuit of truth and true to its own convictions and inspirations.
But what he has in mind cannot be expected in the absence of a spirit which is made manifest in real fraternalism conjoined with faithful devotion to intelligent convictions of duty.
Beneath all he says and does we may see the calm utterance of unwavering convictions and an individuality unimpaired.
He had fixed convictions on the subject when he left Newfane, and he carried them with him to the farther bank of the Mississippi.
Thenceforth he was destined to be a western man, with an ineradicable tang of Puritan prejudices and convictions cropping out unexpectedly and incongruously in all he thought and wrote.
As, then, his philosophy of life remained firm even under this test; such an accident produced no change in his convictionsor in his mode of life.
But such a decision may contradict the prevailing opinion and the convictions of many people.
The religious convictions of its adherents went for nothing.
As to Anjou, the sincerity of his religious convictionsis certainly not above suspicion.
Moreover the members, despite their lofty designation as High-Mightinesses, did not vote according to their convictions or persuasions, but according to the charge they had received from their principals.
Vondel never at any time sacrificed his convictions to his interest, and he wrote poetry not from the desire of wealth or fame, but because he was a born poet and his mind found in verse the natural expression of its thought and emotions.
The followers of Groen van Prinsterer were small in number, but of importance through the strong religious convictions and debating ability of the leader.
Grass was a good and brave man, and I have no doubt that he acted in this matter according to his sincere convictions of duty.
As these convictions grew in clearness she found herself brought suddenly and sharply to face the issue.
And, indeed, the legitimacy of such deductions, though not formally acknowledged, is practically recognized in the convictions of every physiologist, as may be readily proved.
The established convictions respecting the ages of strata, have been formed in spite of it; and by some geologists it seems altogether ignored.
He was a Protestant, united with the Methodist church when a young man and proved ever after a consistent Christian, strong in his religious convictions and a faithful worker.
As a public man Mr. Rice has pursued a policy at once independent and outspoken, not hesitating to express his convictions on the great national questions of the day, and to place himself upon a national rather than a party platform.
They must admit that religious convictionsare and have been among the strongest, if not the strongest, motive powers in the world's history.
Thus when we talk about following conscience, we mean following the voice of our moral nature, or the convictions of the highest and best aspirations in our soul.
The trouble has been that mortal men have been accepted as authoritative spiritual guides, or have tried to control the religious convictions and practices of their fellow-men by force.
The boy would have knowledge and convictions and some intelligence.
Similar beliefs are found very generally among people in a low stage of culture, and customs and beliefs still surviving among people more advanced point to the conclusion that convictions of the same kind were once fairly universal.
The evidence upon which the convictions for witchcraft rested were almost incredibly stupid, as the punishments were almost unbelievably brutal.
The truth of these convictions surged in upon her with overwhelming force.
The conversation that ensued was a test of the strength of the convictions he had formed.
What became of the Church in the days when Peter came to Antioch and Paul withstood him to the face because he was dissembling his Christian convictionsnot to offend a Judaizing party in the Church?
What were Jesus’ convictions about private property?
Quite the contrary; the more vividly these spiritual convictions glow in the heart of any man, the more will he feel that Jesus is still ahead, still the inspiring force.
I We have seen that three convictions were axiomatic within Jesus, so that all his reasoning and his moral imperatives were based on them, just as all thought and work in physics is based on gravitation.
Now confront a mind mastered by these convictions with the actual conditions of society, with the contempt for life and the denial of social obligation existing, and how will he react?
Some other convictions of Jesus left few traces on the common thought of Christendom, but the Church has always stood for a high estimate of the potential worth of the soul of man.
It can not be questioned that these convictions were a tremendous and spontaneous force in the spirit of Jesus.
It is an attempt to formulate in simple propositions the fundamental convictions of Jesus about the social and ethical relations and duties of men.
It challenges college men and women to face the social convictions of Jesus and to make their own adjustments.
It takes idealistic convictions a long time to permeate large social classes, but they often spring into effectiveness suddenly.
I His concern for the poor was the necessary result of the two fundamental convictions discussed by us in the previous chapters.
The Axiomatic Social Convictions Of Jesus Chapter I.
These convictions were the sacredness of life and personality, the solidarity of the human family, and the obligation of the strong to stand up for all whose life is impaired or whose place within humanity is denied.
If we can get hold of the convictions which were axiomatic and immediate with him on these three questions, we shall have the key to his social principles.
Standing With The People We have found two simple and axiomatic social principles in the fundamental convictions of Jesus: The sacredness of life and personality, and the spiritual solidarity of men.
When her only child was yet a lad the crusade tocsin found her ready to respond, in accordance with her own convictions and her mother's faithful teachings.
Self has been forgotten, and with a courage born of her convictions she has grandly carried forward the work, standing always for the best interests of the state.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "convictions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
