Quotes about Convictions

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.

This is a day of little faith — of few convictions — a day when men seem to have no great causes and no great passions. So in frustration, in disappointment, they are inclined to say, 'You can't change human nature.' It is true that we cannot change human nature. But God can.

Our beliefs are not just estimates of probabilities. They are also the instruments that guide our actions.

When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made.

Convictions are lessons learned from experiences we'd never want to go through again, but wouldn't trade for anything in the world.

Fear clouds our convictions and distorts our discernment. When we fill our minds with negative predictions or allow our thoughts to manipulate us into thinking about all the possible destructive outcomes of our mission, we invite fear to paralyze our progress.

Fear clouds our convictions and distorts our discernment.

Concerns about democracy's future are better directed elsewhere, John Paul argues, for if "there is no ultimate truth to guide and direct political activity, then ideas and convictions can easily be manipulated for reasons of power.

No reasonable man, much less a Christian, can or should take part in the efforts of Communists and Socialists

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

If you get any two evangelicals together, you will have at least three opinions! I

I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.