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Quotes About Conviction

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""
~ Mark Twain
Faith is the path of least resistance.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.
~ Blaise Pascal
Faith is a passionate intuition.
~ William Wordsworth
Keep feeding your faith until your doubts starves to death.
~ Navjot Singh Sidhu
A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.
~ Will Durant
Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is unthinkable and impossible.
~ Ernest Holmes
It is not the part of faith to question, but to obey.
~ A. B. Simpson
Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.
~ Émile Durkheim
Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.
~ Joe Abercrombie, Red Country
Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so that they don't have to.
~ Francis Chan
Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
~ William James
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
~ Thomas Browne
Faith is the willingness to look foolish.
~ Mark Batterson
When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.
~ Jules de Goncourt
Faith is the function of the heart.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Faith is a total attitude of the self.
~ John MacQuarrie
Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move.
~ Unknown
Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
~ Mason Cooley
Have faith in your faith-and doubt your doubts.
~ Robert H. Schuller
Faith can remove a mountain, but doubt can put it back in place again
~ Tage Danielsson
Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray