Quotes About Conviction

Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Faith in the widest sense of the word, is assent to the truth, or the persuasion of the mind that a thing is true.

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

People who hold a classic understanding of sexuality, marriage, and family have gone in just twenty years from pillars of mainstream conviction to the media equivalent of racists and bigots. So what do we do now? Patriotism,

You're betraying your whole life if you don't say what you think—and you don't say it honestly and bluntly.

Or as Chesterton put it, "The trouble when people stop believing in God is not that they thereafter believe in nothing; it is that they thereafter believe in anything." In this century, "anything" has included Hitler, Stalin and Mao, authors of the great genocidal madnesses of our time.

You're betraying your whole life if you don't say what you think—and you don't say it honestly and bluntly." —Charles Krauthammer

The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.

It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.

All right, so you believe in Santa Claus, and I'll believe in the 'Great Pumpkin.' The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere! (Linus)

Why did you write "Charlie Brown is a blockhead" on the sidewalk?" "Because I sincerely believe you are a blockhead! I have to write what I believe is true... It's my moral respolsibility!" "Deep down I admire her integrity...

You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on.

Many times in our lives, we act like He's still dead. But several times today, we've testified that He's not. So which is it? Why say one thing with your mouth and yet live another with your life? If He's alive, act like it. He either is or He isn't. You can't be half-alive.

Anything is true if it's said loud enough.

Fact is what people believe.

I confess [Election] is a hard doctrine, running contrary to our earthly ideas of fair play, but I can see no way around it. Read I Corinthians 6:13 and II Timothy 1:9,10. Also I Peter 1:2,19,20 and Romans 11:7. There you have it. It was good for Paul and Silas and it is good enough for me. It is good enough for you too.

Yes, but that was the way she wanted to do it. And furthermore she didn't want him going out there with her now. Three exclamation marks appeared over Norwood's head. No, her mind was made up.

To the best of my knowledge he had never even voted, and then someone must have told him something about politics, some convincing lie, or he read something—it's usually one or the other—and he stopped being funny and turned mean and silent. That wasn't so bad, but then he stopped being silent.

Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts.

But repentance isn't supposed to feel good. In fact, if it does, you're probably doing it wrong.

Three things at least they [good politicians] must require; the first is back-bone; the second is back-bone; and the third is back-bone.

I decided to become a policeman to speak for the dead. They have no one else, you see. Somewhere there's always proof of what happened, some piece of evidence that will obtain a conviction. It's important for the guilty to be brought to justice, I think. Without justice, there's chaos.

Throughout his career as a soldier, lawyer, and public servant, Harrison had felt a keen sense of personal responsibility for whatever work he engaged to do. He treated his presidential duties no differently. Although he could delegate work, he could not relinquish the conviction that the country would hold him ultimately accountable for his administration's actions. He was, therefore, a hands-on president.