Quotes about Convictions

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.

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

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

qualquer pessoa encontra, encarnadas nessa vida, as convicções que lhe são mais importantes lado a lado com aquelas que mais profundamente abomina.

everybody is resting on a set of interpretations, and we need to be honest about it.

It's possible to resist the very growth and change and expanding consciousness that God desires for you by appealing to your religious convictions.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

She had her own opinions on every subject, and kept steadily to them--very tiresome opinions they often were; as she was always thinking of what was right and what was wrong, and had a strange reverence for matters connected with religion, and an unaccountable liking to good people.

Every church, yea, every truth and every good cause, has its martyrs, who stood the fiery trial and sacrificed comfort and life itself to their sacred convictions. The blood of martyrs is the seed of toleration; toleration is the seed of liberty; and liberty is the most precious gift of God to every man who has been made in his image and redeemed by Christ.