Quotes About Conviction

I'd rather be dead and in heaven than afraid to do what I think is right.

If you can play, you can play - and I know I can. If anyone wants to doubt that, heck - I'm more than ready to prove you wrong.

People will dig their heels in and fight for the things they love and against the things they hate.

It's not easy to be a hero. You do it because of what you believe, not because of what other people deserve.

If I'm hesitant at all about an idea, then that's not the right idea.

I've never hidden my faith, but there are only a couple of issues I would die for. There are a few others I would dig my heels in on, and I've told my caucus that what they see is what they get.

When you take yourself seriously you will make others take you seriously. You will put your ideas out there. You won't hide them. You won't delete them. You will keep trying.

When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low.

Half the people might like me - the other half might not. But throughout my life, I have had high expectations for myself - so I just try to make the non-believers into believers.

I don't feel I'm taking the moral high ground, telling people to stop eating animals because I've done it. It just works for me.

I didn't have to fight. I chose to fight. I believe God put me on this Earth to be able to do this and do it at a high level.

I would not score very highly on religious value.

You doubt because you love truth.

There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.

But it was little to Curdie that men who did not know what he was about should not approve of his proceedings.

I do not say we are called upon to dispute and defend the truth with logic and argument, but we are called upon to show by our lives that we stand on the side of truth. But when i say truth, I do not mean opinion. To treat opinion as if that were truth is grievously to wrong the truth. The soul that loves the truth and tries to be true will know when to speak and when to be silent.

Where there is no truth there can be no faith.

The things that come out of a man are they that defile him, and to get rid of them a man must go into himself, be a convict, and scrub the floor of his cell.

Would it not be better to reject it altogether if it not be fit to be believed heart and soul?

Our Lord was not in the habit of explaining away his hard words. He let them stand in all the glory of the burning fire wherewith they would purge us.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by;

If a writer's aim be logical conviction, he must spare no logical pains, not merely to be understood but to escape being misunderstood; but where his object is to move by suggestion, to cause to imagine, then let him assail the soul of his reader as the wind assails an aeolian harp. If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.

She was beginning to learn that a man may be right, although the creed for which he is ready to die may contain much that is wrong.

There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.