Quotes About Convictions

What happens to true believers when their convictions are confronted by reality?

Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.

The height of your accomplishments is determined by the depth of your convictions.

Contending with fanaticism does not mean destroying all fanatics, but rather cautiously handling the little fanatic who hides, more or less, inside each of our souls. It also means ridiculing, just a little, our own convictions; being curious; and trying to take a peek, from time to time, not only through our neighbor's window but, more important, at the reality viewed from that window, which will necessarily be different from the one seen through our own.

faith and humility are at their root one, and that we can never have more of true faith than we have of true humility. It is possible to have strong intellectual convictions and assurance of the truth while pride is still in the heart, but it makes living faith, which has power with God, impossible.

But this is not the faith that has given us religion. It would be rather remarkable if a positive attitude in the face of uncertainty led inevitably to ludicrous convictions about the divine origin of certain books, to bizarre cultural taboos, to the abject hatred of homosexuals, and to the diminished status of women. Adopt too positive an outlook, and the next thing you know architects and engineers may start flying planes into buildings.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

convictions, as it did by requiring the Hahns and Greens in Hobby Lobby to lose millions, or their business. Corvino

In every life there is one particular event that is decisive for the entire person-for his fate, his convictions, his passions.

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Don't sacrifice your political convictions for the convenience of the hour.

Here is the rule: the way you live reveals what you really think about God

What a fine thing to be as rude as that with such convictions.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

It's your life—but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else or a community or a pressure group, you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

Es difícil tener convicciones precisas cuando se habla de las razones del corazón, sostiene Pereira.

My main quarrel with liberalism is not that liberalism places great emphasis on individual rights - I believe rights are very important and need to be respected. The issue is whether it is possible to define and justify our rights without taking a stand on the moral and even sometimes religious convictions that citizens bring to public life.

Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

As a natural historian, I don't believe in the consciousness of rocks or the opinions of rainbows or the convictions of slugs.

If you hold strong convictions against gay marriage, you shouldn't apply for a job as a registrar.

It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.

very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions—? Rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions

Our most sacred convictions, those which are permanent in us concerning the highest values, are judgments emanating from our muscles.