Quotes about Conviction

They will understand a familiar speech, who hear a sermon as if it were nonsense, and they have far greater help for the application of it to themselves. And withal you will hear their objections, and know where it is that Satan hath most advantage over them, and what it is that stands up against the truth; and so may be able to shew them their errors, confute their objections, and more effectually convince them.

He that believeth that he believe, believeth himself and not God (333)[.]

I guess prophets are those who do not care whether you are ready to hear their message. They say it because it has to be said and because it is true.

It is important to know that the opposite of faith is not doubt, but in fact, certitude and the demand for certitude!

The good, the true, and the beautiful are always their own best argument for themselves—by themselves—and in themselves.

I worry about "true believers" who cannot carry any doubt or anxiety at all, as Thomas the Apostle and Mother Teresa learned to do. People who are so certain always seem like Hamlet's

I finally had to be either Roman or catholic, and I continue to choose the catholic end of that spectrum.

Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Shaking settles and roots.

You cannot keep yourself from talking about what you care about most. Jesus said, "A man's heart determines his speech.

You only believe the part of the Bible you do.

What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.

I am convinced that love is the most durable power in the world. It is not an expression of impractical idealism, but of practical realism.