Quotes about Conviction

Dogma is what you have to believe, whether you believe it or not. And law is what you must do, whether it is good for you or not.

She seems to give a respectful credence to the statement that "God is loveonly to hurry on to explore with real interest the possibility that God is wrath." She can read from the book of Revelation with a ringing conviction in her voice that can make the creation seem only a stage setting for the triumphant thunderation of end.

I was glad enough that I had not become a preacher, and so would not have to go through a war pretending that Jesus had not told us to love our enemies.

His very use of parables shows that it was his conviction that the things of this world can lead a man's thoughts direct to God, if he will only see.

I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.

that adult trait of being convinced of anything by an assumption of silent superiority

That was the voice of one who knew his own mind.

Truth is terrific, reality is even better, but believability is the best of all

Belief creates the actual fact.

I will assume for the present---until next year---that it is no illusion. My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

The submission which you demand of yourself to the general fact of evil in the world, your apparent acquiescence in it, is here nothing but the conviction that evil at large is none of your business until your business with your private particular evils is liquidated and settled up.