But democracy has great attractive power if its appeal is derivative, if it is the practical application of profound convictions about God and man as it was for so many of the founding fathers of both British and American democracy in the seventeenth century. (religion-online.org)
It may be said that this mixture of political morality and theology extends through all the actions of the Americans, a tincture of gravity and profound conviction.91 (religion-online.org)
It is enormously difficult for many committed people to see their own and their faith communities» profound convictions as but one set of options among many in America's free religious market. (religion-online.org)