Quotes About Conviction

If we did not have the impulse and ability to believe in the impossible, we would not have religion, democracy, or marriage.

In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.

I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one will.

I get increasingly respectful of people who have faith and increasingly creeped out by them.

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

I'm not making any secret of the fact I still believe in independence. We'll continue to argue the case.

Ma capite questo, che io non diventerò mai un uomo anziano come voi, se ora dicessi di sì, e questa sarebbe una maniera di dir sì, quando da uomo giovane ho giurato di dir no fino in fondo?

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

An honorable man will not be bullied by a hypothesis.

No one should ever be wrongfully deprived of their rights to liberty and freedom without just cause, yet in the past 25 years alone thousands of people have been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to tens of thousands of years in prison.

My life has been a struggle -- a struggle to have my own way where I felt I was in the right.

Me pray? Never! I'm an atheist.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

Because I just do. This isn't something I think in my brain—it's something I feel in my heart, and there's a mighty big difference between the two. It's our hearts that tell us the truth of things, honey, and my heart has never betrayed me. Not ever.

Courage comes from a heart that is CONVINCED it is loved.

Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes.

Wherever is Krishna, the lord of yoga; and wherever is Arjuna, the archer; there will be everlasting prosperity, victory, happiness, and morality. This is my conviction.

something may be fully accepted out of faith, yet it may be empty, hollow, and false; but something else may not be fully accepted out of faith, yet it may be factual, true, and unmistaken.

It is precisely because all of us recognize what is at stake for our generation and those who follow that we will continue to speak out and insist that our Government act not only with determination but with effectiveness, not only with conviction but with wisdom.

He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity. A fool is a natural proselyte, but he must be caught young, for his convictions, unlike those of the wise, harden with age.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.

When you start following Jesus, you begin to prove you believe what he says.

It's not the things I don't understand about the Bible that bother me; it's the things I understand with perfect clarity and don't comply with that keep me up at night.