Quotes about Conviction

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

If you're explaining, you're losing.

admire the ingenuity that goes into this but I am not at all convinced that such people have quite got the right end of the stick. Does God really want us to know, in exact detail, ancient Babylonian history? I suspect not. But I am confident that God does want us to know how people in circumstances of acute displacement, living with the fear and the anxiety of a persecuted minority, responded to a hostile state and a pagan power.

Faith is the highest passion in a man.

The person who lives in the ethical sphere lives intentionally, intensively. Such a person possesses character and conviction, and is thus willing to sacrifice himself for something greater than oneself.

Compel a person to an opinion, a conviction, a belief - in all eternity, that I cannot do. But one thing I can do: I can compel him to become aware.

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

Make sure you are doing what God wants you to do--then do it with all your strength.

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

I believe with all my heart that one cannot be America's president without a belief in God, without the strength that your faith gives you.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.