“We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.” ForgetResultsConvictionApplicationAccumulation Book:Democracy and Social Ethics Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.” LittlesIdeasResultsStageElectionConvictionCampaignsCandidatesVotersPublic LifeHiringConsultants Author:Gerald R. Ford
“There is no incompatibility between moral clarity and intellectual firepower, between faith in God and humility -- in fact, they're mutually dependent, between a strong conviction that we must go to war and an abundant compassion for any that may die as a result, and between political conservatism and personal decency.” MayWarFactsPoliticalDiesStrongResultsCompassionMoralHumilityIntellectualConvictionClarityDependentFaith In GodDecencyConservatismIncompatibility Author:David Limbaugh
“Faith is the result of the act of the will, following upon a conviction that to believe is a duty.” BelieveResultsDutyFollowingConviction Author:John Henry Newman