Quotes about Conviction
If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.
— John Wooden
Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.
— Timothy Keller
Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?
— Brigham Young
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
— CS Lewis
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
— Tertullian
I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
— Thomas Jefferson
Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.
— William James
I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.
— Edmund Burke
There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker.
— DL Moody
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If a Christian really believed that his neighbor will be tortured in all eternity in Hell, he should try day and night to persuade him to repent and believe. How sad that this doesn't happen.
— Richard Wurmbrand