Quotes About Conviction

Only those who have stood within the bars and heard the din of devils and the appalling sounds of despair can imagine the horrors of the hold of a convict ship.

They fight against popular creationism, but at the same time they fight fanatically for their own creationism," he

an individual's moral obligation in the situation is to 'call it as he sees it' without consideration of what others say.

An unexamined and untested belief system is not faith. It's only an inheritance you have been taught.

What God says is best, indeed is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

When a man's cause is good, it will sufficiently plead for itself, yea, and for its master too.

What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.

If you think you can do it, you can.

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative

Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

una filosofia sembra sempre un fatto a chi ci crede.

Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

not that they may believe against their wills (which would be impossible), but that they may be made willing to believe who were before unwilling to believe.

our faith in doctrine is not established until we have a perfect conviction that God is its author.

The knowledge of faith consists in assurance rather than in comprehension. . . . We add the words "sure and firm" in order to express a more solid constancy of persuasion.

the testimony of the Spirit is superior to reason. For as God alone can properly bear witness to his own words, so these words will not obtain full credit in the hearts of men, until they are sealed by the inward testimony of the Spirit. The same Spirit, therefore, who spoke by the mouth of the prophets, must penetrate our hearts, in order to convince us that they faithfully delivered the message with which they were divinely entrusted. This

For I fear not to declare, that what I have here given may be regarded as a summary of the very doctrine which, they vociferate, ought to be punished with confiscation, exile, imprisonment, and flames, as well as exterminated by land and sea.

But, as a heathen tells us, [54] there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish, as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God. Even

If only we were convinced deep in our hearts that persecutions are among God's blessings, what progress we should make in the knowledge of divine truth! What

But, as a heathen tells us,[54] there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish, as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.

men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God. Frequent

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.

Convinced, however, we are not, if we look to ourselves only, and not to the Lord also

Faith is belief based on spiritual conviction instead of proof. You could say that the nature of my convictions has changed recently.