Quotes about Conviction

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!

When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.

When you make a courageous statement, people start to follow you, and that's nice.

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

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

God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure if we have removed their only firm basis: a conviction in the minds of men that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.

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.

Credulity is not a crime, but it becomes criminal by resisting conviction. It is strangling in the womb of the conscience the efforts it makes to ascertain the truth. We should never force belief upon ourselves in anything.

There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious, that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must co-operate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced, have no right to persecute others on whom conviction operates more slowly.

Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. It