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Quotes About Conviction

I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.
~ Bertrand Russell
No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.
~ Bertrand Russell
Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.
~ Terry Goodkind, Confessor
The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.
~ Wendell Phillips
Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.
~ Muhammad Ali
What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I don't believe in atheists.
~ Neal Boortz
Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
~ Douglas William Jerrold
I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen
~ Pat Barker, Regeneration
The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.
~ Helen Foster Snow
Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?
~ Brigham Young
There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.
~ Thomas Gray
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
~ Brian Eno
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
~ Sydney Smith
Our religion should be incorporated within ourselves, a part of our being that cannot be laid off.
~ Lorenzo Snow
I like to use religion as a catalyst for something that I believe.
~ Brendon Urie
It seems to me that if you can't make a good solid case for your faith, you don't have a religion, you just have a habit.
~ Burt Prelutsky
If one has belief, knowledge is lacking. If one has knowledge, belief is unnecessary.
~ David Eller
When you have faith in something a lot of other people believe then you a member of the church" said Ceas, "When you have faith in something nobody believes, then you a complete wacko
~ Orson Scott Card, Magic Street
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
~ C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
~ Tertullian