Personal Convictions Quotes

The truth is I've always been a Christian. What's amazing, is that the flaws that come with Christianity are really weird, because mine have a microphone and a camera attached to them. Most people don't have to live under that microscope.

If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am not a free man.

Ideology is like breath: you never smell your own.

I don't think Donald Trump is ideological.

I used to hate religion, I loathed it in my angry days.

People are gonna believe what they want to believe And like I said before, I really don't give a damn.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

I'm realizing this more and more that it's one thing to get involved with your own political beliefs and stand behind you believe in personally.

I am not that savvy, to be honest. I know what I believe in, and I try to follow people who do the same.

That it does not matter what a man believes is a statement heard on every side today. ... What he believes tells him what the world is for. How can men who disagree about what the world is for agree about any of the minutiae of daily conduct? The statement really means that it does not matter what a man believes so long as he does not take his beliefs seriously.

Everybody thinks they are right

It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.

The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think.

The problem is, most people don't like to hear suggestions that directly confront or run counter to their most sacred beliefs.

I derive a lot of the values that I try to bring into the public sphere from my private faith.

I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions.

Going after what I believe in.

In church I was told that if I so much as smoked a cigarette or tasted alcohol, I’d be damned in hell for all eternity... it didn’t take long for me to start thinking that sounded all wrong... I didn’t cotton to the idea that your religion should be flaunted to other people. Your religion is for you, and is best kept close to your heart.

Marriage partners, not government, should define the terms and spiritual orientation of their union in accordance with our nation's guarantee of religious freedom.

You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity.

But what of the voice and judgment of conscience? The difficulty is that we have a conscience behind our conscience, an intellectual one behind the moral. ... We can see quite well that our opinions of what is noble and good, our moral valuations, are powerful levers where action is concerned; but we must begin by refining these opinions and independently creating for ourselves new tables of values.

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in something or I don't. Like, I believe in the Rolling Stones but not in the Dave Clark Five. There's nothing philosophic about it. Whenever I'm linked with a movement, it pisses me off.

For a deeply religious purpose, there are people who do not personally believe that abortion is acceptable. I understand that. But this is a country where we don't impose religious beliefs on the entire country. This is a country where we accept differences of opinion.