Quotes About Conviction

Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something WRONG is something RIGHT. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole WORLD tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world-- --"No, YOU move.

When we fail to answer someone's questions and objections, we become just one more excuse for them to disbelieve.

Ambiguity is more convincing than certainty.

When the fanatic is confronted with facts, statistics, history, experience, ethics, faith, or what have you, it is of no consequence. He has found his calling and he will not be dissuaded from it. Again, "the cause" is greater than all things.

We are what we think. To change how people act, we must change what they believe.

Son, in life you do not fight battles because you expect to win... ...you fight them merely because they need to be fought. -Snagglepuss

She knew that it was better to have a dream and pay a price for it than to be lukewarm. - regarding St. Teresa of Avila

I don't like being talked into things by ungraceful people.

I suspect that on some level, life is a matter of indefensible loyalties.

In modern faith our certainty has replaced love. A healthy faith walk is a collision of both. Enough certainty and conviction to walk out life pursuing Christ and holiness—but enough love to draw others (even those who do not agree with our conviction) to Christ. Conviction without love is just an angry opinion.

I'd bet dollars to doughnuts

The person with the least worry over the compromises he must make is, of course, the person who doesn't compromise.

Sometimes you just have to have faith.

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie — I found that out.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.

Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of.

Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture.

All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made