Quotes About Conviction

He loathes what he has left behind him, and it is natural to guess that, in his first years of priesthood, his religious nature slept; that he became a priest and notary merely that he "might eat a morsel of bread"; and that real "conviction" never was his till his studies of Protestant controversialists, and also of St. Augustine and the Bible, and the teaching of Wishart, raised him from a mundane life. 

Let every one then that has received this new life, cultivate this great conviction: it is eternal life that works in me: it works with Divine power: I can and shall become what God will have me be: Christ Himself is my life: I have to receive Him every day as my life given by God to me, and He shall be my life in full power.

It it universally admitted that the Holy Spirit has not, in the teaching of the Church or the faith of believers, that place of honour and power, which becomes Him as the Revealer of the Father and the Son. Seek a deep conviction [p 141 ] that without the Holy Spirit the clearest teaching on holiness, the most fervent desires, the most blessed experiences even, will only be temporary, will produce no permanent result, will bring no abiding rest.

Faith is nothing other than the certitude that God speaks truth.

I agreed sincerely and ardently

She sounded pretty certain. I wasn't so confident.

As long as a person maintains that his beliefs represent an actual state of the world (visible or invisible; spiritual or mundane), he must believe that his beliefs are a consequence of the way the world is. This, by definition, leaves him vulnerable to new evidence.

The truth is that some people appear to be almost entirely motivated by their religious beliefs. Absent those beliefs, their behavior would make absolutely no sense; with them, it becomes perfectly understandable, even rational.

There is a price to be paid for changing my worldview, and that price is good evidence and good arguments. That's the coin of the realm. If you come to me with good evidence and good arguments, I am going to be swayed to the degree that you deliver the goods.

One need only read the Koran to know, with something approaching mathematical certainty, that all truly devout Muslims will be "convinced of the superiority of their culture, and obsessed with the inferiority of their power

they believed that they would go straight to paradise for doing so.

Certainty about the next life is simply incompatible with tolerance in this one.

Pope Innocent III decreed that all property belonging to a convicted heretic would be forfeited to the church; the church then shared it both with local officials and with the victim's accusers, as a reward for their candor.

The thing is, I am absolutely convinced that the only way we can improve one another's quality of life, which is something very real to those of us who grew up in the Depression, is through what we call free enterprise—practiced correctly and morally.

We have to speak the truth always, at any cost, and no matter what.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.

Those who take little thought find it easy to pronounce an opinion. - On Optimism

Every man adheres as long as he can to his own pre-conceptions.

Chi dubita di se stesso di rado sbaglia.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

It's hard for us to back down once we've taken a stand.

If she commits to something, it's forged in steel.

This was partly why she believed what she had been told:

We have to hesitate, to temper the strength of our tendencies with doubt; to waver when we are sure, or even because we are sure.