Quotes about Convictions

It is well and good when our convictions are based upon the "Thou shalts" and the "Thou shalt nots" of Scripture rather than our own ideas.

The very ones whose social pressure cause you to compromise will despise you for it. They probably respect your convictions, and many of them wish they had the moral stamina to stand alone. May the Lord give you added courage to be a witness for Him, even in a hard place.

Be attractive and winsome, but do not compromise your convictions for the sake of popularity.

People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

When did speaking your beliefs become synonymous with forcing them upon others?

No one can increase the volume in the pulpit to such a level as to muffle the echo of lost convictions.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious convictions.

Act ahead of your feelings and trust that one day your feelings will match your convictions. Choose now and continue to choose this incredible truth.

I was smarter when I was 15, 16 than when I was 18 to 26, because instead of caving in to being cool, I stuck close to my convictions and I was rewarded.

Here is the rule: the way you live reveals what you really think about God.

I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.