Jesse Helms Quotes

It's funny, because I'm a man of strong opinions and when I make one, I stand by it even if it starts to appear incorrect to me after a while.

Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

If you're really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, 'Hey;' you just very calmly present something.

Faith is Doubt.

A man with a conviction is a hard man to change.

Never have I met a politician who was as certain her or she was absolutely right as Margret Thatcher.

There's not point in doing anything without conviction.

I don't think you need to justify faith, faith is its own justification.

If somebody else thinks something that you don't believe in, just think they're wrong and you're right and keep going. That's pretty much the way I always think.

I think it's important to be an absolute believer and have that confidence.

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

To believe is to be happy; to doubt is to be wretched. To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do any thing that is worth the doing.

Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so.

We as human beings like to be cocksure and certain.

I know very much what I believe.

... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.

It's unbelievable to me how sure people can be of themselves.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons.

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.

Believe it!