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Quotes About Conviction

When you have faith in something, it's your reason to be alive and to fight for it.
~ Katherine Dunham
It is not faith per se that creates the problem; it is conviction, the notion that one cannot be wrong, that opposing views are necessarily invalid and may even be intolerable.
~ Jack McDevitt
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
~ Voltaire
Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.
~ Unknown
My faith always has been and always will be important to me.
~ Aretha Franklin
Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.
~ Paul Tillich
The life of faith is not only totally different from, but also diametrically opposite to, a life of feeling.
~ Watchman Nee
Faith is the yes of the heart.
~ Martin Luther
He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
~ Abu Bakr
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
~ Edith Hamilton
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Faith is never identical with piety even if it were the purest and finest.
~ Karl Barth
You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe
~ Carl Sagan
Never dig up in unbelief what you have sown in faith.
~ Unknown
Faith is reason grown courageous.
~ Sherwood Eddy
Strong faith is not an emotion. It's a choice.
~ Unknown
Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin.
~ Unknown
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.
~ George Seaton
Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.
~ Francis Chan
faith without doubt is addiction
~ Salman Rushdie
Faith is the element that builds the bridge in the absence of concrete evidence.
~ Howard W. Hunter
Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
~ Ramakrishna
Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.
~ Paul Tournier
It takes more faith to be an atheist than to believe in God.
~ Ruth Graham