Quotes about Convictions
It is well and good when our convictions are based upon the "Thou shalts" and the "Thou shalt nots" of Scripture rather than our own ideas.
- Billy Graham
The very ones whose social pressure cause you to compromise will despise you for it. They probably respect your convictions, and many of them wish they had the moral stamina to stand alone. May the Lord give you added courage to be a witness for Him, even in a hard place.
- Billy Graham
Be attractive and winsome, but do not compromise your convictions for the sake of popularity.
- Billy Graham
People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral.
- Heinrich Heine
Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
- Abraham Lincoln
When did speaking your beliefs become synonymous with forcing them upon others?
- Ted Dekker
No one can increase the volume in the pulpit to such a level as to muffle the echo of lost convictions.
- Fred Craddock
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious convictions.
- Brennan Manning
Act ahead of your feelings and trust that one day your feelings will match your convictions. Choose now and continue to choose this incredible truth.
- Henri Nouwen
I was smarter when I was 15, 16 than when I was 18 to 26, because instead of caving in to being cool, I stuck close to my convictions and I was rewarded.
- Ted DiBiase Sr.
Here is the rule: the way you live reveals what you really think about God.
- Edward Welch
I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.
- David Brainerd