Quotes About Conviction

La duda destruye más que las certezas.

en el oficio de las armas, y por si acaso, la duda debe tratarse como si fuera certeza.

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it's for life.

A 'no' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

You want to have faith. But you also want to reserve the right to challenge your own faith when it suits you.

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

Today's churches must realize that Jesus, his disciples, and the early church didn't have any problem attracting men. They developed a culture that included such characteristics as challenge (Matt. 4:18–19), commitment (v. 20), conviction (Acts 20:22–24), and risk (Acts 4:29), as well as a number of other qualities that likely attracted men.

I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot be taken by a rational being to be capable of explanation by imposture, coincidence, or mistake.

You need to believe in it first, to make it happen.

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

Belief is ever its own tempter to believe differently

The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.

trust and believe

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.

One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.

You gotta Stand for Something, Even If U Stand Alone

Faith doth both admit and reject disputation with difference.

In true metaphysics I believe that, contrary to common opinion, unbelief far oftener needs a reason and requires an effort than belief.

The mere presentation of an idea, unless we are careful about it, or unless there is within some unusual resistance, makes us believe it; and this is why the belief of others adds to our belief so quickly, for no ideas seem so very clear as those inculcated on us from every side.

It's very rare in life to be sure about something - particularly when it's an issue.

It's rare that you're sure you're right in life. I'm finding that.

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.