Quotes About Conviction

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

Through patience and certainty, leadership in the religion is obtained.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

I am personally convinced of the great power and deep significance of Christianity, and I won't allow any other religion to be promoted.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion

I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

If God has spoken, why is the world not convinced.

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam.

To put into practice the teachings of our holy faith, it is not enough to convince ourselves that they are true; we must love them. Love united to faith makes us practice our religion.

I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual and moral discomfort.

I'm a born - again atheist.

Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.

New Testament Christians witnessed — not because they had to — but because they could not help it.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.