His special triumph is in the conviction his countrymen share that the mythical world he evokes actually exists.

Conviction is not a substitute for reason.

The vanity of the world, and its insufficiency to satisfy the soul of man, has been long a settled conviction of my mind. Man's inability to secure by his own merits the approbation of God, I feel to be true. I trust in the atonement of the Savior of mercy, as the ground of my acceptance and of my hope of salvation.

Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that ''God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself',' but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.

The World of Venice,

Whales have two things to do, eat and look for something to eat, ... So they cruise from kelp bed to kelp bed and then move on.