When we are baptized and confirmed, when brethren are ordained to the priesthood, when we go to the temple and receive our endowment, when we enter into the new and everlasting covenant of eternal marriage - in all these sacred ordinances, we make solemn commitments to keep God's commandments.
Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.
I don't need to have my convictions confirmed by a show of numbers. However, being among people in front of a band leads me to believe that all is not lost, that humans, now and then, can communicate on a higher level than the political and the practical.
History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
As I read, my suspicion that Jesus might really be the Messiah was confirmed.
I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.
In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.
I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.