Quotes About Conviction

They love truth flourishing, who do not love it when it is confuting. They dare handle and look on the sword with delight when in a rich scabbard, who would run away to see it drawn.

Assurance rather is the fruit of faith. It is in faith as the flower is in the root.

Our faith must not depend on our reason, but our reason on faith.

He that believeth not is condemned already,' John 3:18. He hath his mittimus already to jail; yea, he is in it already in a sense—he hath the brand of a damned person on him.

Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of waves.

A sinner truly convinced is not only convinced of this sin or that sin, but of the evil of all sin.

Faith and a good conscience are hope's two wings.

Say, as Austin in another case, 'Errare possum, hæreticus esse nolo—I may err, but I am re solved not to be a heretic.

They gave us the rules of the game and the durable conviction that the physical world is comprehensible.

Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised.

There is nothing more likely to drive a person mad than...an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.

Although there is a limit beyond which belief will not withstand disconfirmation, it is clear that the introduction of contrary evidence can serve to increase the conviction and enthusiasm of the believer.

Disconfirmation of deeply held beliefs causes severe psychic pain; what better way of alleviating it than in the company of newly won believers? As put by Festinger, "If more and more people can be persuaded that the system of belief is correct, then clearly it must, after all, be correct.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

The concrete man has but one interest—to be right. That to him is the art of all arts, and all means are fair which help him to it.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.

It has been said that it's hard to stop a man who knows he's in the right and just keeps on coming. Smoke knew he was right - and he kept on coming.

My heart is in this work, for it is not a question of 'Will we win' or 'Will we lose.' We must win, and that is all there is to it.

In the absence of proof, you believe.

The devil's best defense is a person's disbelief in his existence.

Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.