Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.
One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing.
Conviction is the conscience of the mind.
... only those of us who carry our cause in our hearts are willing to run the risks.
Belief?" "Yes," Sazed said. "Tell me, Mistress. What is it that you believe?" Vin frowned. "What kind of question is that?" "The most important kind, I think.
In your heart you know he's right.
Holiness sincerity, and faith.
So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.
A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.
Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not.
You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it's not going to drive you.
