Conviction Quotes - Page 6

Conviction of sin draws me away from myself and toward GodSelf-condemnation, on the other hand, draws me down into myself and away from God.

Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

I have the courage of my convictions.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.

What has the church gained if it is popular but there is no conviction, no repentance, no power?

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.

Courageous convictions will drag the dream into existence.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

I am able to make a contribution... Let me repeat my convictions, I can make a contribution to American painting.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

Convictions do not imply reasons.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

Youth can only assert itself through the conviction that its ventures surpass all others and resemble nothing.

Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.

No Legislature can really destroy a religious conviction, except by exterminating its holders. It is historically too late to do that, and we shall live to see the drowned Egyptians on the seashore even yet.

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.