Quotes about Conviction

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)

It is not the vaccinationists but the antivaccinationists who generate zeal. People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.

You must not refuse to do this, or you, too, will be accused. In the town they have convicted entire families." Richard said, "There was another carpenter, once, and he would have refused to do this thing. Him I will follow.

Most of the great universities of the West were founded with the conviction that theology is the queen of the disciplines. (...) Now, in the latter part of the twentieth century, that tradition has almost disappeared.

The future belongs to believers.

Let every one then that has received this new life, cultivate this great conviction: it is eternal life that works in me: it works with Divine power: I can and shall become what God will have me be: Christ Himself is my life: I have to receive Him every day as my life given by God to me, and He shall be my life in full power.

It it universally admitted that the Holy Spirit has not, in the teaching of the Church or the faith of believers, that place of honour and power, which becomes Him as the Revealer of the Father and the Son. Seek a deep conviction [p 141 ] that without the Holy Spirit the clearest teaching on holiness, the most fervent desires, the most blessed experiences even, will only be temporary, will produce no permanent result, will bring no abiding rest.

Faith is nothing other than the certitude that God speaks truth.

The thing is, I am absolutely convinced that the only way we can improve one another's quality of life, which is something very real to those of us who grew up in the Depression, is through what we call free enterprise—practiced correctly and morally.

Those who take little thought find it easy to pronounce an opinion. - On Optimism