Quotes about Conviction

We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.

Years ago, a well-known political writer, Isabel Paterson, was talking to a businessman outraged by some government action. She urged him to speak up for his principles. "I agree with you totally," he said, "but I'm not in a position right now to do it." "The only position required," she replied, "is vertical.

Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically.

If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, if we aren't willing to make some sacrifices in order to realize them, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all.

I've learned to place my faith in my fellow citizens, especially those of the next generation, whose conviction in the equal worth of all people seems to come as second nature, and who insist on making real those principles that their parents and teachers told them were true but perhaps never fully believed themselves.

Scientists are not like other people, sir. We cannot slam our portals. We have to follow evidence where it leads, even if no one likes that place. Even if it suggests that all we have ever believed might be mistaken.

I am losing faith in such a simple thing as despising an enemy with unequivocal righteousness.

The single most significant factor, he realized, was a sense of future vision—the impelling conviction of those who were to survive that they had a mission to perform, some important work left to do.1 Survivors of POW camps in Vietnam and elsewhere have reported similar experiences: a compelling, future-oriented vision is the primary force that kept many of them alive.

The Psalmist expressed our conviction well: "Search your own heart with all diligence for out of it flow the issues of life.

In the end, we love people into belief. We do not argue them into belief.

In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.

Bad evangelism says: I'm right, you're wrong, and I would love to tell you about it