Quotes about Conviction

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods

It is hard to see how a great man can be an atheist. Without the sustaining influence of faith in a divine power we could have little faith in ourselves. We need to feel that behind us is intelligence and love. Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create. Faith is the great motive power, and no man realizes his full possibilities unless he has the deep conviction that life is eternally important, and that his work, well done, is a part of an unending plan.

You either stand for Jesus or you stand for all that He died to repudiate.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.

His Christianity was muscular.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because I see everything by it.

What a man believes, he will die for. What a man merely thinks, he will change his mind about.

Belief is better than anything else, and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

One man with courage makes a majority.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

Faith is necessary to victory.