Conviction Quotes

When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter it's the belief that counts.

Robertson Davies

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses it is an idea that possesses the mind.

Every man who attacks my belief diminishes in some degree my confidence in it and therefore makes me uneasy and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Penetrating so many secrets we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless calmly licking its chops.

Believe not your own brother - believe instead your own blind eye.

Russian proverb

I love an opposition that has convictions.

Frederick the Great

Every man wherever he goes is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Bertrand Russell

Convictions are the mainsprings of action the driving powers of life. What a man lives are his convictions.

Bishop Francis Kelly

The best lack all conviction while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

William Butler Yeats

(Conviction) is possible only in a world more primitive than ours can be perceived to be. A man can achieve a simply gnomic conviction only by ignoring the radical describers of his environment or by hating them as convinced men have hated say Darwin and Freud as agents of some devil.

Those who serve a cause are not those who love that cause. They are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it - except in the case of the very purest and they are rare.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

William Warburton

Every dogma has its day.

Abraham Rotstein

A man can believe in a considerable deal of rubbish and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Every life is a possession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent propaganda.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Soon after a hard decision something inevitably occurs to cast doubt. Holding steady against that doubt usually proves the decision.

R. I. Fitzhenry

I may have faults but being wrong ain't one of them.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

Lynwood L. Giacomini

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen.

Bible

Genuine blasphemy genuine in spirit and not purely verbal is the product of partial belief and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

T.S Eliot

I believe in the gods. Or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us I believe they are completely absent-minded.

I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.

Claude Lévi-Strauss

What is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause but what they say about their opponents.

Robert F. Kennedy

It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have 'something worth fighting for' they do not feel like fighting.

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity never of the correctness of a belief.

Arthur Schnitzler

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

The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened with convictions.

Alexander Chase

In 2011 in Swansea, Wales, Colin Batley was found guilty of 35 charges relating to his role as the leader of a 'satanic cult' that sexually abused children and women, manufactured child abuse images and forced children and women into prostitution (de Bruxelles 2011).His partner and two other women were also convicted on related charges, with one man convicted of paying to abuse a victim of the group. The groups' ritualistic activities were based on the doctrine of Aleister Crowley, an occult figure whose writing includes references to ritual sex with children. Crowley's literature has been widely linked to the practice of ritualistic abuse by survivors and their advocates, who in turn have been accused by occult groups of religious persecution. During Batley's trial, the prosecution claimed that Crowley's writings formed the basis of Batley's organisation and he read from a copy of it during sexually abusive incidents. It seems that alternative as well as mainstream religious traditions can be misused by sexually abusive groups. p38

Your true conviction is tested not when everything goes your way but rather when things go wrong...

Assegid Habtewold

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?

Leonard Ravenhill