Quotes about Conviction
If other people choose to believe because I do, great. I want to show people God's love through what I do and who I am. At the same time, I don't feel I need to pass out Bibles at the concert.
- Clay Aiken
conversion is a necessary and moral duty for every man.
- Herman Bavinck
Faith, which forms its positive side is at the same time cognitio and fiducia, a trustful knowledge and a knowing trust.
- Herman Bavinck
Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale! Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appall!
- Herman Melville
Live what is within you out loud.
- Lisa Bevere
A person believes various things at various times, even on the same day.
- John Updike
If it is true that the great missionaries of the 16th century were convinced that one who was not baptized was lost - and that explains their missionary commitment - in the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council, that conviction was definitely abandoned.
- Pope Benedict XVI
What I discovered is that when God took the anger out of my heart, He also took the fear. I know that telling the truth makes enemies, but my message is right and just, and I have no desire to modify it to please others.
- Jesse Lee Peterson
The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.
- William James
Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
- Alexander Hamilton
You will readily believe me when I say that on leaving my country, I little imagined that I should ever become a Baptist. I had not indeed candidly examined the subject of baptism, but I had strong prejudices against the sect, that is everywhere spoken against.
- Adoniram Judson
If it does not appear reasonable to you, it is reasonable for you, to believe in God.
- Cornelius Van Til