Quotes About Conviction

Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none.

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

A man must be himself convinced if he is to convince others. The prophet must be his own disciple, or he will make none. Enthusiasm is contagious: belief creates belief.

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know they are dogmas.

A reasonable doubt is nothing more than a doubt for which reasons can be given. The fact that 1 or 2 men out of 12 differ from the others does not establish that their doubts are reasonable.

I trust men only because I trust God.

Man believes and lives.

I can no more preach nonviolence to a cowardly man than I can tempt a blind man to enjoy healthy scenes.

Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well.

I believe that marriage is between one man and one woman, the same as I've believed all my life.

Mitt Romney was the man who stood up to Donald Trump early, hard, never wavered.

If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.

A man who hasn't found anything he'd die for doesn't deserve to live.

Preaching is theology coming through a man who is on fire.

A religion which has lost its basic conviction about the interconnection of men with men in their common struggles for the human, will never command belief in the realm of the superhuman.

When a man calls himself an atheist, he is not attacking God; he is attacking his own conscience.

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

What a man has, so much he is sure of.

When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender.

Even an evil man can have principles—he can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.

If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man.

I always tell what I believe. Whether it's true, I'm no more sure than any man.

I am left with the conviction that an avalanche would be easier to dissuade than that man.