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.

Abraham Kuyper

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.

Robert Bolton

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.

Samuel Johnson

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

H.L. Mencken

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.

John Ciardi

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.

Simone Weil

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.

Norman Douglas

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.

Jimmy Hoffa

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.

Jean Giraudoux

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.

Eric Hoffer

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.

Robert Frost

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

Michael Salter

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

He may have as strong a sense of what would be right, as you can have, without being so equal under particular circumstances to act up to it.""Then, it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

Jane Austen

What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong.

Elizabeth Gaskell

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

Leo Tolstoy

Lust was a positive high-tension cable, plugged into my core, activating a near-epileptic seizure of conviction that this was the one thing I had to do in life.

Will Self

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

Edmund Burke

Those mortals who operate in the grey area between conviction and incredulity are in a position to choose most meaningfully, and with most meaningful consequences […] Perhaps only a doubter can appreciate the miracle of life without end.

Terryl L. Givens

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt. (p. 21)

Rollo May

Keep testing your conviction from time to time, with your intellect as well as emotions to ensure you are on the right path!

Anuranjita Kumar

Holy Spirit convicts us when we do something wrong, He guides us back to the right path

Sunday Adelaja

Redemption came as a wave of relief, but then it followed with a burden.

Building 429

God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out air-quality. He knew it already. It was I who did. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the day all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize that fact was to knock it down.

C.S. Lewis

One of the strongest conviction of delayed gratification is to convince people to have faith in the truth.

Sunday Adelaja

And then, that feeling comes again when you seem invincible and totally awesome. You simply can't hold it in and you just smile to everyone you come across; infectiously, they have no choice but to smile back. You are more than convinced in your guts that something beautifully indescribable is coming your way. You just drown yourself in the feeling of awesomeness. Faith, probably . . . or the hands of providence?

Ufuoma Apoki

The longing for Joy is in itself Joy. When he recalled when he had experienced Joy, he was, in that recollection, experiencing Joy anew, though he knew it not. Joy was not a state; it was an arrow pointing to something beyond all states, something objective yet unattainable – at least in our earthly existence.

Philip Zaleski

It is hard to bring paedophile rings to justice. Thankfully it does happen. Perhaps the most horrific recent case came before the High Court in Edinburgh in June 2007. It involved a mother who stood by and watched as her daughter of nine was gang-raped by members of a paedophile ring at her home in Granton, in the north of Edinburgh. The mother, Caroline Dunsmore, had allowed her two daughters to be used in this way from the age of five. Sentencing Dunsmore to twelve years in prison judge, Lord Malcolm, said he would take into account public revulsion at the grievous crimes against the two girls. He told the forty-three-year-old woman: 'It is hard to imagine a more grievous breach of trust on the part of a mother towards her child.' Morris Petch and John O'Flaherty were also jailed for taking part in raping the children. Child abuse nearly always takes place at home and members of the family are usually involved.

Alice Jamieson

Moments later, Sona Kilroy, heading for the open doorway, stepped over the sergeant’s body. With an old auto-rifle in his left hand and his favorite sword in the other, and the sharp melodic din of bolts and bullets ringing in his ears, ‘the Hammer’ grinned an evil grin to himself, well pleased. He wished he could’ve seen the look on the face of Indomitable’s captain when he realized the tables had just been turned on him! The thought amused him. It was bloody hilarious. He cackled, reveling in this complete reversal of fortune. Then he stalked onward with conviction, a grim smile on his lips – intent on taking the ship for himself. * * *

Christina Engela

A lot of people are capable, Neelkanth. What makes a capable person truly dangerous is his conviction.

Amish Tripathi

Follow your dreams with determination and conviction until they become true.

Steven Redhead

If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.

Richelle E. Goodrich

As a human rights activist it is concerning to me that those committing atrocities against vulnerable people view these atrocities as 'progress', and assert with pride and conviction that they are 'Christians' and that they are doing 'God's will'.

Christina Engela

A good presentation = Conviction + Story + Message. Subject does not matter.

Aayush Jain

A good presentation = Conviction + Story + Message. Subject does't matter.

Aayush Jain

Roache's statement after his acquittal was dignified but his supporters were angry. They demanded to know why the case was ever brought, claiming that the actor was a victim of the "hysteria" created by revelations about Jimmy Savile. It's a curious conclusion to draw from a "not guilty" verdict; there are courtrooms where the conviction rate is 100 per cent but they tend to be in totalitarian states. In serious criminal cases in England and Wales, the rate is around 82 per cent, and I would be seriously worried if every defendant were to be found guilty.The Independent, 9 February 2014

Joan Smith

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

Joseph Schumpeter

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Dr. Seuss

Our hearts bear a similarity with storerooms. We hold in them our trampled convictions, our fears, suppressed acts of valor, disappointments, enmity, anguish, secrets, things we wish we should have done, things we wish we shouldn’t have, regret.And continue piling them up with emotions, memories, conversations which did happen and conversations which didn’t, soured relationships and bitter people all of which we should have discarded, we keep it within until there is no space left, until the room is full, occupied after which we go on to lock it. Once in a while we happen to open the room and sight the dust accumulated all over, we relive each moment, each memory and each emotion again and soon fall upon the realization as to how deeply the room is in need of cleaning and so we clean it.We clean it so that we can fill it once more, hold it, bear it, relish it, heal from it and then finally let it go.

Chirag Tulsiani

Man has his being in truth--if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying--but of acting against one's conviction.

Novalis

Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own

Rollo May

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