Quotes About Conviction

It is all about trusting your choice that you have already made.

Never question the conviction of a scientist, based on mere scriptures.

For me, I can not be right in anything unless there is no counter thoughts that contradict my wrong, in this case my thoughts will be right.

She said calmly, "So I hear you are now an atheist. Is that true?" I nodded yes, and she smiled. She placed the package in my hands. "The man's name is Friedrich Nietzsche, and the book is called Twilight of the Idols," she said. "If you are going to be an atheist, be the best one out there. Bon appetit!

I would choose so to live that I might stand boldly with my deed without regret throughout eternity.

Caution is evil medicine to me, even when it seems to guarantee reward. It was a foretaste of my later conviction that the follies which a man regrets most are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.

The will to believe is perhaps the most powerful, but certainly the most dangerous human attribute.

Nothing which is worth while is easy, nor in my experience is the actual doing of it particularly pleasant. The pleasure arises from completion and from the knowledge that one has done the right thing and has stood by one's convictions.

The Hegelian dialectic could be "turned right side up" only by one who was convinced of the soundness of the basic principle of Feuerbach's philosophy, viz., that it is not thinking that determines being, but being that determines thinking.

You don't have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.

Christians in the West are weakened by wimpy worldviews. And wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians.

There is no point in winning an argument if you know or suspect you are wrong.

You don't have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.

God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." (Thomas Jefferson)

More than 200 years ago, Benjamin Franklin stood before the Constitutional Convention and said, "I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live the more convincing proof I see of this truth: that God governs the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall without His notice, is it possible that an empire can rise without His aid?

Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

He who has truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.

That's what belief does, Sylvie. Whether something is true or not is beside the point.

I think about those words a lot, and I think about their spirits too. If you believe in those sorts of things. I do and I don't believe. But mostly— mostly, mostly— I do.

When we believe something, we act as if it is true.

One person with a belief is a social power equal to 99 who have only interests.