Quotes About Conviction

Well, we seem to have it.

Knowing it--knowing it's true is one thing, but believing what you know... well, there's the tough part.

when men believed too strongly, it made them cruel.

The fact that a proposition is absurd has never hindered those who wish to believe it.

That is about all I have learned—to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it.

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.

Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

situation. He was of no color, John Brown, of no race or age. He was pure passion.… He was an elemental force like wind, rain, and fire."7

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When you aren't sincere you need to pretend, and by pretending you end up believing yourself; that's the basic principle of every faith.

As persons committed to the examined life, each of us must take a stand on each of these questions--however provisional and preliminary that stand may be.

Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Somewhere Chesterton writes--I think it is Chesterton--that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn't deliver him to.

John Wayne Gacy is obsessively fond of defending his innocence, which is imaginary. On March 12, 1980, he was convicted in Chicago of killing thirty-three boys. The murders took place between 1972 and 1978, when he was caught and arrested. No one else in America has ever been convicted of killing so many people. Twenty-seven of the bodies were buried in a crawl space beneath the house where Gacy lived,

no puede explicarse cuán grande es la autoridad de un erudito de profesión, cuando quiere demostrar a los demás las cosas de las que ya están persuadidos.

Non si può spiegare quanto sia grande l'autorità d'un dotto di professione, allorché vuol dimostrare agli altri le cose di cui sono già persuasi.

If you want anything to work, Sunday, you're going to have to believe it.