Quotes about Conviction

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.

I can't do it. It would be like, say, trying to fall in love with somebody, or trying to convince yourself that your favorite food is pancakes. You don't decide those things, they just happen to you. If God is real, He needs to happen to me.

If I do not introduce people to Jesus, then I don't believe Jesus is an important person. It doesn't matter what I say.

If you believe something, passionately, people will follow you. People hardly care what you believe, as long as you believe something. If you are passionate about something, people will follow you because they think you know something they don't, some clue to the meaning of the universe.

Not having a clear call to action is the equivalent of telling customers you don't really believe in your product and don't think that product can solve their problems and change their lives.

What people believe is more important than how they look, what their skills are, or their degree of passion.

Andrew would say that dying for something is easy because it is associated with glory. Living for something, Andrew would say, is the hard thing. Living for something extends beyond fashion, glory, or recognition. We live for what we believe, Andrew would say.

Have the courage to speak the truth, to do what is right, and to fight for what you believe.

How I wish that more men who claim to be evangelical really believed the Word of God--that it IS the Word of God, that it is God speaking.