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Quotes About Conviction

I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom.
~ Mitt Romney
Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.
~ Daniel Dennett
Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.
~ Richard Cecil
I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.
~ Arthur Miller
I completely can't understand people of different faiths who say that their children will choose when they grow up. I think that if you believe in a religion, most people believe that it's right.
~ Susan Jacoby
God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of.
~ Bruce Springsteen
No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.
~ Bertrand Russell
Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.
~ William James
I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.
~ Edmund Burke
Those of little faith are of little hatred.
~ Eric Hoffer
She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Religion isn't yours firsthand until you doubt it right down to the ground.
~ Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.
~ Voltaire
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.
~ Francis Bacon
A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief but they run away fr'm doubt.
~ Finley Peter Dunne
Faith means intense usually confident belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.
~ Walter Kaufmann
I hold that religion and faith are two different things.
~ Pat Buckley
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - live it.
~ Walter Colton
Belief, Faith, and God do not ask you to follow them blindly. Choose it with all your heart!
~ Nikita Dudani
You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.
~ Howard Jacobson
Our belief ultimately determines our faith.
~ Kenneth Newry