“The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers, is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience”
Abraham Lincoln
“Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that ''God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself',' but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.”
John Wesley
“Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions”
Dag Hammarskjold
“My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.”
T.S. Eliot
“The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time”
Franklin Pierce Adams
“Conviction without experience makes for harshness.”
Flannery O'Connor
“I believe, with abiding conviction, that this people-nurtured by their deep faith, tutored by their hard lessons, moved by their high aspirations-have the will to meet the trials that these times impose.”
Lyndon B. Johnson
