Quotes About Conviction

I do?e vreme kad ?ovek treba zauzeti stav koji nije ni bezbedan, ni 'mudar', ni popularan, ali ga mora zauzeti jer je ISPRAVAN!

In spite of this prevailing tendency to conform, we as Christians have a mandate to be nonconformists. The Apostle Paul, who knew the inner realities of the Christian faith, counseled, "Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind." We are called to be people of conviction, not conformity; of moral nobility, not social respectability. We are commanded to live differently and according to a higher loyalty.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question, "Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right.

If a man has not discovered something that he could die for, he's not fit to live.

It is simply my way of saying that I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity. Occasionally in life one develops a conviction so precious and meaningful that he will stand on it till the end. That is what I have found in nonviolence.

This may well be," I said, "the darkest hour just before dawn. We have moved all of these months with the daring faith that God was with us in our struggle. The many experiences of days gone by have vindicated that faith in a most unexpected manner. We must go out with the same faith, the same conviction. We must believe that a way will be made out of no way.

John Bunyan: "I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience.

I will do everything in my power to make it so by outspoken agreement whenever proper, and determined opposition whenever necessary.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

He explains how all African Americans involved in our own liberation struggle came to embody the dignity of moral conviction and self-sacrifice. Importantly, he explains here how the way of nonviolence heals the oppressed as well as the oppressor.

I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action.

Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!

What planet are you living on? Who are you trying to convince - me or yourself.

I accept that the mind often dictates the heart. Yet I believe that the heart is the truer guide. Was she

In questo nostro mondo non conta quel che si fa», disse amaramente il mio amico. «Importa più quel che si riesce a far credere alla gene di aver fatto. Ma lasciamo stare.»

Es preferible la verdad, cualquiera que sea, a una duda indefinida.

an unbeliever may be as bigoted as any of the orthodox, and

a man may be very dogmatic in his opposition to dogma. Such

It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.

People who are in earnest are always interesting, whether you agree with them or not, and it was impossible to doubt that these people were extremely earnest. The

Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

There actually is an imbecile in existence who asserts that the earth is flat and who has persuaded many people to adopt his view.

Let me repeat: the crimes of violence committed for selfish personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majoram gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to a flag, a leader, a religious faith, or a political conviction. Man has always been prepared not only to kill but also to die for good, bad or completely futile causes. And what can be a more valid proof of the reality of the self-transcending urge than this readiness to die for an ideal?

But where is the jury who decides whether devotion is of the 'right' or the 'misguided' kind?