Quotes About Conviction

I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.

Authentic Christian Preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society.

If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.

One cannot exchange ideas with a rational person any more than one can argue with a religious fanatic.

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

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.

Stand with anyone that is right; stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.

I belive that people should fight for what they believe and only what they believe.

My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years, and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.

To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all - but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing.

And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in GOD, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts. Abraham Lincoln, in an address to congress July 4th, 1861

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.

And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in GOD, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.

Competing absolutisms respect each other more than either respects those who are allergic to absolutes as an absolute principle.

There are no atheists in foxholes, and no liberals in bar fights, and what

A Lighthouse brand is one that has a very clear sense of where it stands, and why it stands there. This sense of self is built on rock—a

demonstrates quite clearly Swift's maxim that you cannot reason someone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.

The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading, and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires.

It took more than one or two years before we got contacted by real clients as a result of the publicity. Fame is mostly talk. You need to convince people over time that you can do real and strong work.

You take every salesman that walks into this shop at his word—why not Gianluca?

No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward

No arguments will give courage to the coward. The

Yet, isn't it strange, isn't it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is! How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as 'facts.' Yes, I know that in this case one 'fact' was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a 'fact,' and act on it as if it were true.