Quotes About Conviction

One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100,000 who have only interests.

One person with a belief is worth 99 people who have only interests.

Then are seen the cases, so frequent in this age of the world as almost to form the majority, in which the creed remains as it were outside the mind, incrusting and petrifying it again all other influences addressed to the higher parts of our nature; manifesting its power by not suffering any fresh and living conviction to get in, but itself doing nothing for the mind or heart except standing sentinel over them to keep them vacant

One person with a belief is equal to the foce of 100,000 who have only interests.

They are not insincere when they say that they believe these things. They do believe them, as people believe what they have always heard lauded and never discussed. But in the sense of that living belief which regulates conduct, they believe these doctrines just up to the point to which it is usual to act upon them.

To prohibit what they think pernicious, is not claiming exemption from error, but fulfilling the duty incumbent on them, although fallible, of acting on their conscientious conviction.

Then are seen the cases, so frequent in this age of the world as almost to form the majority, in which the creed remains as it were outside the mind, encrusting and petrifying it against all other influences addressed to the higher parts of our nature; manifesting its power by not suffering any fresh and living conviction to get in, but itself doing nothing for the mind or heart, except standing sentinel over them to keep them vacant.

the measure of faith given to all), means putting obedience into action even when "proof" is absent, resting securely on the evidence already abundantly provided.

Faith in God presents a fascinating conundrum. So many of us have faith, but when doubt and unbelief creep in, our faith is the first thing to be compromised.

I have a Christian worldview and so it shapes the way that I view issues. I don't apologize for that, and I don't think people of faith ought to shrink away from being in the public arena.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

A few years after the Constitution was ratified, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts. These four laws were aimed at suppressing political opposition. Under the presidency of John Adams, this resulted in the prosecution and conviction

A man ought to do what he thinks is right

Screw ambiguity. Perversion and corruption masquerade as ambiguity. I don't trust ambiguity.

A man oughta do what he thinks is best.

Are you going to believe what you see or what I tell you?

bless you and convict you with a sense of discomfort that makes you move from your status quo life and seek more of Him. To leave your nest of familiarity and cry out for that intimate encounter with Jesus. It comes through the Father, through following his mandate to seek out and save and heal those who are lost. Say not ye, There

When at last he came to his decision, it seemed to him that he had known all along what it would be.

I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.

Though I felt uneasy at the thought of writing an instrument of slavery… through weakness I gave way and wrote it; but… said before my master and the Friend that I believed slavekeeping to be a practice inconsistent with the Christian religion. This, in some degree, abated my uneasiness; yet… I should have been clearer if I had desired to be excused from it, as a thing against my conscience.

I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.

When people live their lives by their beliefs objective reality is almost irrelevant. 'That's