Quotes about Conviction
I believe BECAUSE it's impossible.
- Tertullian
Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?
- Thomas Watson
The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.
- James Madison
If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.
- John Wooden
Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.
- Timothy Keller
Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?
- Brigham Young
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.
- CS Lewis
It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.
- Tertullian
I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
- Thomas Jefferson
Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true.
- William James
I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.
- Edmund Burke