Quotes about Conviction

Credo quia impossibile

My wife and I were present at this congress. Sabina told me, "Richard, stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face." I said to her, "If I do so, you lose your husband." She replied, "I don't wish to have a coward as a husband.

He said there were two kinds of Christians: those who sincerely believe in God and those who, just as sincerely, believe that they believe. You can tell them apart by their actions in decisive moments.

This is because conviction and humility, like faith and doubt, are not opposites; they're dance partners. It's possible to hold your faith with open hands, living with great conviction and yet at the same time humbly admitting that your knowledge and perspective will always be limited.

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

The spirit of dialectical fearlessness is not so easily acquired; and the sense of isolation which remains despite the conviction of right, the sadness of the parting from admired and trustworthy [or trusted?] authorities, is the line of demarcation which marks the threshold of its acquirement.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

To put into practice the teachings of our holy faith, it is not enough to convince ourselves that they are true; we must love them. Love united to faith makes us practice our religion.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.