Quotes About Conviction

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good.

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important then proving anything to anyone

It is a startling thing, the need to feel utterly believed.

If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts," said Francis Bacon, "but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

grand jury indictment is not a conviction.

The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief. T. S. Eliot

No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.

When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven't any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn't face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)

The only principle I'm prepared to absolutely commit to, with absolute certainty, is that I can change my mind.

William Cummings was right: there are no atheists in foxholes.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

This kind of philosophy is, when conducted in self-aware fashion, what some of its most acute exponents always said that it was, a way of clarifying issues and alternatives but not if providing grounds for conviction on matters of any substance.

Sooner or later everything boils down to trust. You just have to make that leap of faith.

If you really believe in a cause, let the cause speak for itself. And if you, by your personality, are damaging that cause, if you really believe in it, you step aside.

Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.

I would have liked to personally have prosecuted Scott Peterson.

And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.

Good argument is intended to persuade another.

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words.

Actually my brother didn't think Imran was religious enough for me. I had to persuade him.

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

I find a way to convince people to come along with me. They want to be persuaded. When I sit in a room with you I'm going to sell you something whether you want it or not. At the end you'll say: 'I'm glad I bought that.'

Sometimes people give to charity because they have been persuaded to believe in a cause, sometimes just to get rid of you and sometimes because they are befuddled and confused.