Quotes About Conviction

If you will, then you will, for nothing can withstand your will. As your faith is, so you are, where your mind is there you are.

Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.

Indifference to one's own faith is no proof of tolerance. Loyalty to one's own is part of a larger loyalty to faith generally.

Faith is the profound knowing that comes before reality confirms it.

Faith is not jumping to conclusions. It is concluding to jump.

The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength, but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.

Faith lives in honest doubt.

We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it is against my religion to impose my religion.

Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.

This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

Lay not the plummet to the line; religion hath no landmarks; no human keenness can discern the subtle shades of faith.

Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.

I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.

Possessing faith is not convenient. You still have to live it.

Faith is believing what we cannot prove.

The way you think either expresses or undermines faith.

Once you discover that the world rewards reckless faith, no lesser world is worth contemplating.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.

Things I don't understand don't destroy my faith in the things I do understand.

ALL THOUGHTS WHICH HAVE BEEN EMOTIONALIZED, (given feeling) AND MIXED WITH FAITH, begin immediately to translate themselves into their physical equivalent or counterpart.

...those who think that faith is superior to reason, and try to reason me into thinking that way; why don't they faith me into it?

Faith in faith is faith astray.

Authentic faith cannot help but act.