Quotes about Convictions

Freedom of speech means nothing to a people who are too weak in their convictions to speak out against the evil that is eating at the heart of the nation like a cancer.

What the heathen had in their wood, we have in our opinions.

For when moral convictions are reduced to arbitrary preferences, then they can no longer be debated rationally.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him.

Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God.

What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I am not devoted in the right place. I am devoted to things, to service, to convictions, and God may say what He likes but I do not hear Him.

To believe is to commit. In the area of intellectual learning I commit myself mentally, and reject anything not related to that belief. In the realm of personal belief I commit myself morally to my convictions and refuse to compromise. But in intimate personal belief I commit myself spiritually to Jesus Christ and make a determination to be dominated by Him alone.

Which of my convictions have more to do with my own personal preferences than with God's revelation?

When your support of people overrides your biblical convictions, you have a soul tie to a political spirit.

Clearly determine your values, because when your values are clear, your decisions are easier.