Quotes About Conviction

And that is why the man who wants to see clearly, before he will believe, never starts on the journey.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we would see for the kingdom of God!

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God

Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.

A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist.

Feller was an ebullient man, who would rather be wrong than undecided.

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.

You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string

What a man wishes, he will believe.

The relations between a man and his or her god is a personal matter; you can't go out and challenge the belief of people in a superior being.

A man's faith governs the totality of his life, or else his professed faith is not his real faith.

Every man always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.

If a man knows what he wants, then he is in a position to decide that he will get it. This is faith. The determined decision of a man with desire.

Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

Whatever else you fail of, do not fail of the influence of the Holy Spirit; that is the only way you can handle the consciences of men.

Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.