Quotes about Conviction

To be a genuine Christian, you must believe the claims of Christ.

Don't let the culture influence your message, let your message influence the culture.

The principle cannot be denied: the fiercer the struggle against the injustice you suffer, the blinder you will be to the injustice you inflict. We tend to translate the presumed wrongness of our enemies into an unfaltering conviction of our own rightness.

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want.

You don't have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, you will succeed in your fight for that in which you believe.

A universe of doubt could never erase, The faith his heart has embraced. No

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And ones that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

People become leaders when they make the decision not to sacrifice their principles on the altar of convenience or compromise.

It is one thing to insist on walking south when the compass is pointing north. But to "fix" the compass so that it tells you that the wrong way is the right way is far, far worse. You can correct a mistake. But once you tell yourself it wasn't a mistake there's no way back.

In fact, like most things in life that really matter—love, beauty, justice—you can't prove things in history the way you can prove Pythagoras's theorem. But there are lots of things you can be certain of nonetheless.

But the fact remains that Paul had, to this point, made a career out of telling people things he knew they would find either mad or blasphemous or both. He had grown used to it. This was what he did.

Among other beliefs, I hold more firmly than ever to the conviction that serious study of Jesus and the gospels is best done within the context of a worshipping community.