Quotes About Conviction

Every man has somewhere about him some belief for which he'd die. Only isn't it improbable that your parents and guardians told it to you? If there is one won't it be part of your own flesh and spirit?

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch....

My conviction," says the mystic, "gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it," and they had agreed that there was something beyond life's daily grey.

Belief's always right.. It's all right and it's also unmistakable. Every man has somewhere about him some belief for which he'd die. Only isn't it improbable that your parents and guardians told it to you? If there is one won't it be part of your own flesh and spirit?

The unbeliever has always such a very clear idea as to what Belief ought to be, I wish I had half his certainty.

My conviction," says the mystic, "gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it," and they had agreed that there was something beyond life's daily grey.

Yes, for we fight for more than Love or Pleasure; there is Truth. Truth counts, Truth does count.

and laughed at his theories, and proved that no man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

Two Jewish believers will be convinced that Jesus is indeed the Messiah, the Christ. They will prophesy for three and a half years (42 months). In other words, for the first three and a half years of the tribulation period, these two witnesses will be preaching to the people of Israel that Jesus Christ is indeed the promised Messiah of Israel. As a result, many people will come to faith in Christ

I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.

Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.

Bram Stoker] wrote in his diary: "Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

I have to trust what I do and then do it.

Belief In God is primarily a matter of the moral will.

Pablo var fyrtinn, stöðugt andsnúinn honum og vildi alltaf hafa rétt fyrir sér, en það voru þrjár óhrekjanlegar sannanir fyrir veikri skapgerð.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

I shall never sacrifice a friend to an ideal. I shall never desert a friend to save an institution. I shall never betray a friend for the sake of the law. Great nations may fall in ruin before I shall sell a friend to preserve them. I pray to the God within me to give me the power to live by this design.

Who shall argue with the most stubborn of all bigotries, — the fanaticism of unbelief?

Faith can move mountains. Doubt can create them.