Quotes About Conviction

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

If you're ashamed to stand by your colours, you better seek for another flag.

Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.

First doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith. We must never allow doubt to hold us prisoner and keep us from the divine love, peace, and gifts that come through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.

I'm at peace with myself because what I talk about is the way I live.

I don't believe anything till I have seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn't matter whether the theory is true or not.

As Christians, we call ourselves people of faith, but how much practical faith do we really have?

You know you have found your life mission when you say, "I dare you to try and take this away from me.

The problem with many believers today is that they try to cooperate with the world

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Knowledge is justified belief.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.

Why are philosophers intent on forcing others to believe things? Is that a nice way to behave towards someone?

If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.

You always really have to remain consistent in your beliefs and philosophy.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

Every cause that ever I fought, I fought it full without regret or shame.

The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.

To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere Philosophy.

I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision.