Quotes About Conviction

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

A pipe in the mouth makes it clear that there has been no mistake-you are undoubtedly a man.

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.

Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.

One man's faith is another man's delusion

There are men whom you will never dislodge from an opinion, except by taking possession of it yourself.

I may fall here in the Senate chamber, but I will. never make any compromise with any such men.

My Christian faith teaches me marriage is between man and a woman. I'm not evolving with the polls. I'm not changing like Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution.

Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.