Quotes about Conviction

People don't believe what you tell them.They rarely believe what you show them.They often believe what their friends tell them.They always believe what they tell themselves.

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.

Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.

And throughout those evenings a conviction grew in me that [he] would draw me with him into eternity, into that time where question and answer would become one.

Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.

The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.

I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God.

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all. In unforeseen events let me not forget that all are sent by You.

If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.

For the skeptic no proof is possible, and for the "believer" no proof is necessary.

I'd rather be biblically correct than politically correct.

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.