Quotes about Conviction
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.
- Jim Elliot
It is impossible to believe anything into existence. The gospel did not come into being because men believed it...The fact always precedes the faith.
- Billy Graham
If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all
- CS Lewis
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The man of faith who has never experienced doubt is not a man of faith.
- Thomas Merton
No man's faith, no man's religion, no religion in all the world can ever rise above the truth.
- Gordon Hinckley
I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution.
- CS Lewis
Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.
- Ezra Taft Benson
There is one single fact that one may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity; namely, that no man ever repented of being a Christian on his death-bed.
- Hannah More
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.
- Harry S. Truman
Our job is to stand up for our beliefs, cling to them no matter what, and wait for our redemption. Jesus will not let us down.
- Terri Blackstock