Quotes about Conviction
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
— John Quincy Adams
Get on fire for God and men will come and see you burn.
— John Wesley
Truth is eternal, and conflict with error will only make manifest its strength....
— Ellen White
It is through the mighty agency of the Holy Spirit that the government of Satan is to be subdued and subjected. It is the Holy Spirit that convinces of sin and expels it from the soul by the consent of the human agent....
— Ellen White
God will never remove every occasion for doubt. He gives sufficient evidence on which to base faith, and if this is not accepted, the mind is left in darkness.
— Ellen White
I definitely don't ever plan on compromising, and if that means I'm rebellious, then so be it. I'm all for it.
— Lauren Daigle
We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.
— Dorothy Day
Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything!
— George W. Bush
George Washington once wrote that leading by conviction gave him "a consolation within that no earthly efforts can deprive me of." He continued: "The arrows of malevolence, however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me.
— George W. Bush
Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon the solidity of belief.
— John Wycliffe
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.