Quotes about Convictions
Faith and humility are at their root one, and that we can never have more of true faith than we have of true humility. It is possible to have strong intellectual convictions and assurance of the truth while pride is still in the heart, but it makes living faith, which has power with God, impossible.
- Andrew Murray
Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?
- John Calvin
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
- Albert Einstein
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
- Winston Churchill
It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.
- Epictetus
qualquer pessoa encontra, encarnadas nessa vida, as convicções que lhe são mais importantes lado a lado com aquelas que mais profundamente abomina.
- Elias Canetti
everybody is resting on a set of interpretations, and we need to be honest about it.
- Rob Bell
It's possible to resist the very growth and change and expanding consciousness that God desires for you by appealing to your religious convictions.
- Rob Bell
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain
She had her own opinions on every subject, and kept steadily to them--very tiresome opinions they often were; as she was always thinking of what was right and what was wrong, and had a strange reverence for matters connected with religion, and an unaccountable liking to good people.
- Emily Bronte
Every church, yea, every truth and every good cause, has its martyrs, who stood the fiery trial and sacrificed comfort and life itself to their sacred convictions. The blood of martyrs is the seed of toleration; toleration is the seed of liberty; and liberty is the most precious gift of God to every man who has been made in his image and redeemed by Christ.
- Philip Schaff