Quotes about Conviction

If the Christian faith is true, it is true even if no one believes it, and if it is not true, it is false even if everyone believes it. The truth of the faith does not stand and fall with our defense of it.

Creative persuasion is a matter of being biblical, not of being either modern or postmodern.

It is no great feat to burn a little man. It is a great achievement to persuade him. ERASMUS, LETTER

The Christian faith is not true because it works. It works because it is true.

As John Wesley advised his young preachers in his day (when the Bible still shaped the horizon of most people's lives), "Preach the Law until they are convicted, then preach Grace until they are converted.

This book focuses on a narrower issue and a simple problem: We have lost the art of Christian persuasion and we must recover it.

Man's love of truth is such that when he loves something which is not the truth, he pretends to himself that what he loves is the truth, and because he hates to be proved wrong, he will not allow himself to be convinced that he is deceiving himself. So he hates the real truth for what he takes to his heart in its place.

Either we may seek to conform our desires to the truth, which leads to conviction, or we may seek to conform the truth to our desires, which leads to evasion.

we Christians must show again that we are both people of the Word and people who believe in words. Words are never mere words for us

Again, the heart of apologetics is the apologetics of the heart.

Christians," as that crusty old philosopher Bertrand Russell used to quip, "would sooner die than think—in fact they do.

In a post-Christian era many of our friends, neighbors, and colleague will reject God for a score of reasons, but we must live and speak that they reject God for God's sake and not because of what we have said or done that has framed God wrongly.