Quotes about Conviction

If we say a thing often enough, silently in our hearts or verbally, we will believe it.

We convince by our presence.

every uncompromising ideology reduces faith to an idolatry

As every vibrant subcommunity knows, the defining prerequisite for such a subcommunity is a conviction that it can and will be different because of the purposes of God that will not relent.

Faith is both the conviction that justice can be accomplished and the refusal to accept injustice.

When you believe something to be true, you are "in one mind" about accepting it; when you do not believe something to be true, you are "in one mind" about rejecting it. "To doubt," Os Guinness writes, "is to waver between the two, to believe and disbelieve at once and to be 'in two minds.

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

When we preach on hell, we might at least do it with tears in our eyes.

Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

Remember, it's not "stand firm for the faith" but "stand firm in the faith." You've got to own it and live it.

If counseling is to be restored to the church, affection must be restored to reflection. If counseling is to be restored to the church, delight in God must be restored to doctrines about God. Savoring Christ must be restored to seeing Christ. Tender contrition must be restored to tough conviction. Communication with God must be restored to contending for God.

The purpose of continuous repentance in the life of a quality man is not a return to the crisis of salvation but part of what the Bible calls sanctification. Repentance is the choice to embrace the Holy Spirit's daily work of convicting us about ongoing sin. "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.