Quotes about Conviction

Do and dare what is right, not swayed by the whim of the moment. Bravely take hold of the real, not dallying now with what might be. Not in the flight of ideas but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of living. God's command is enough and your faith in him to sustain you. Then at last freedom will welcome your spirit amid great rejoicing.

To deal with the word of Jesus otherwise than by doing it is to give him the lie. It is to deny the Sermon on the Mount and to say No to his word...That is why as soon as the hurricane begins we lose the word, and find that we have never really believed it. The word we had was not Christ's, but a word we had wrested from him and made our own by reflecting on it instead of doing it.

The idea that we could have avoided many of life's difficulties if we had taken things more cautiously is too foolish to be entertained for a moment. As I look back on your past I am so convinced that what has happened hitherto has been right, that I feel that what is happening now is right too. To renounce a full life and its real joys in order to avoid pain is neither Christian nor human.

All that matters is whether one opts for Christ - not Christian opinions.

Only when I forgo visible proof, do I believe in God.

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.

There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for.

More often than not, it is what you are rather than what you say that will bring an unbeliever to Christ. This, then, is the ultimate apologetic. For the ultimate apologetic is: your life.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

Most of you live your life on flimsy little songs, not upon the word of God.