Quotes about Conviction
The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
- Nancy Pearcey
If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
- St. Augustine
I would not have believed the gospel had not the authority of the Church moved me.
- St. Augustine
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
- St. Augustine
The object of faith always determines its quality and worth.
- Sam Storms
faith is only as good as its object.
- Sam Storms
Mere sincerity, passionate devotion, clarity of conviction, and depth of insight are all ultimately useless unless they are rooted in and focused on the person and work of Jesus.
- Sam Storms
Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.
- Samuel Johnson
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
- Samuel Johnson
A lot of people don't give much thought to what they believe, and it's easy for them to hold what often are two conflicting ideas in their head at the same time.
- Lee Strobel
There will be occasions in each of our lives when we will be called upon to explain or to defend our beliefs. When the time for performance arrives, the time for preparation is past.
- Thomas Monson
We need to display as much conviction behind our love as some have displayed behind their hate.
- Marianne Williamson