Sentence examples for inward convictions from inspiring English sources
Many Protestants and Roman Catholics alike assumed that her self-presentation was deceptive, but Elizabeth managed to keep her inward convictions to herself, and in religion as in much else they have remained something of a mystery.
Elizabeth, moreover, had no interest in probing the inward convictions of her subjects; provided that she could obtain public uniformity and obedience, she was willing to let the private beliefs of the heart remain hidden.
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It fails both as a satire and romance because it is controlled by no inward conviction.
As the narrator says: "What was at stake included the risk that I would look foolish in my own eyes... and then she would be unable to resist the inward conviction that I was a fool.
Some of their extremists, such as Jahm ibn Ṣafwān (d. ad 746), regarded faith as purely an inward conviction, thus allowing a Muslim outwardly to profess other religions and remain a Muslim, since only God could determine the true nature of his faith.
What the world didn't know what that as a kid who'd struggled with depression his whole life, Mitcham's attempts to offset an inward conviction that he was "a nothing" by pursuing personal achievement at the expense of everything were reaching an explosive collision.
The eyes – or the ears, if we're listening to something read aloud – seem crucially involved in conveying that inward clinch of critical conviction, just as in attending to paintings or music.
Her noble experiment in looking inward does not have the punch or conviction of her social and political essays.
