Quotes About Conviction

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Le cÅ"ur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point.

There are three sources of belief: reason, custom, inspiration.

Nie betrieben die Menschen das Böse so umfassend und freudig wie aus religiöser Überzeugung.

Denying, believing and doubting are to men what running is to horses.

No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God incline his heart, and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.

The will is one of the chief organs of belief, not because it creates belief, but because things are true or false according to the aspect by which we judge them. When the will likes one aspect more than another, it deflects the mind from considering the qualities of the one it does not care to see. Thus the mind, keeping in step with the will, remains looking at the aspect preferred by the will and so judges by what it sees there.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

No one has ever incurred martyrdom for miracles he claims to have seen; for, in the case of those which the Turks believe by tradition, human folly might go as far as martyrdom, but not for those actually seen.

you would like to cure yourself of unbelief and ask the remedy for it. Learn of those who have been bound like you, and who now stake all their possessions. These are people who know the way which you would follow, and who are cured of an ill of which you would be cured. Follow the way by which they began; by acting as if they believed, taking the holy water, having masses said, etc. Even this will naturally make you believe, and deaden your acuteness.

When we are accustomed to use bad reasons for proving natural effects, we are not willing to receive good reasons when they are discovered.

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it. By telling himself so often enough he convinces himself, because when he is alone he carries on an inner dialogue with himself which it is important to keep under proper control. Evil communications corrupt good manners.1 We must keep silence as far as we can and only talk to ourselves about God, whom we know to be true, and thus convince ourselves that he is.

That is why those to whom God has given religious faith by moving their hearts are very fortunate, and feel quite legitimately convinced, but to those who do not have it we can only give such faith through reasoning, until God gives it by moving their heart, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it with religious conviction.

The heart has its reasons which reason knoweth not.

I believe those witnesses who get their throats cut.

Je ne crois que les histoires dont les témoins se feraient égorger.

The heart has reasons of which the mind knows nothing.

L'art de persuader consiste autant en celui d'agréer qu'en celui de convaincre, tant les hommes se gouvernent plus par caprice que par raison.

You will come to agree with me.

You say you lost your faith But that's not where it's at You had no faith to lose And you know it