Confirmation Quotes

“A few days before the confirmation service, she told her father—the pastor of the church—that she wasn't sure she could go through with it. She didn't know that she really believed everything she was supposed to believe, and she didn't know that she should proclaim in front of the church that she was ready to believe it forever."What you promise when you are confirmed," said Julian's father, "is not that you will believe this forever. What you promise when you are confirmed is that that is the story you will wrestle with forever.”

“A few days before the confirmation service, she told her father—the pastor of the church—that she wasn't sure she could go through with it. She didn't know that she really believed everything she was supposed to believe, and she didn't know that she should proclaim in front of the church that she was ready to believe it forever."What you promise when you are confirmed," said Julian's father, "is not that you will believe this forever. What you promise when you are confirmed is that that is the story you will wrestle with forever.”

“I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.”

“Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.”

“I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed.”

“Work hard and take risks. Try it before you confirm it is difficult!”

“Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.”

“With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.”

“I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.”

“You don’t need any confirmation if you are already in the spirit”

“When you feel like you're crazy because you think differently than the people around you, God sends a confirmation that you've not lost it.”