Quotes about Conviction
I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot be a man of faith unless you know how to doubt.
— Thomas Merton
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.
— Jim Elliot
It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The gospel did not come into being because men believed it...The fact always precedes the faith.
— Billy Graham
If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all
— CS Lewis
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.
— Thomas Merton
No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.
— Gordon Hinckley
I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution.
— CS Lewis
Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
— Ezra Taft Benson