Quotes About Conviction

But when people are used to believing a thing is such-and-such a way, and the preachers want them to believe that that's the way it is; it's trouble you get, not thanks, for upsetting their ideas.

What is more, nobody has ever actually proved him wrong. His chief trouble was that he usually provided such large, indigestible slabs that they stuck in all gullets—even mine, and I would class myself as a fairly wide-gulleted type.

God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.

Jim Bradley shook his head. Cathy didn't want to admit it, but he had the unmistakable look of someone who was in the right.

A kind, courteous Christian is the most powerful argument that can be produced in favor of Christianity.

Truth is eternal, and conflict with error will only make manifest its strength....

It is through the mighty agency of the Holy Spirit that the government of Satan is to be subdued and subjected. It is the Holy Spirit that convinces of sin and expels it from the soul by the consent of the human agent....

God will never remove every occasion for doubt. He gives sufficient evidence on which to base faith, and if this is not accepted, the mind is left in darkness.

Florida Scott-Maxwell, a Jungian analyst who did not begin her training until midlife, began writing a private notebook at the age of eighty-two, in which she recorded her impressions of old age. Her experiences, mindfully observed, did not fit her expectations: "Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate.... To my own surprise I burst out with hot conviction." I I

Unless therefore I am convinced by the testimony of Scripture or by the clearest reasoning, unless I am persuaded by means of the passages I have quoted, and unless they thus render my conscience bound by the word of God, I cannot and I will not retract, for it is unsafe for a Christian to speak against his conscience. Here I stand, I can do no other; may God help me. Amen."-Martin Luther

When people say they love you, you just have to decide to believe them, because you'll never know for sure.

What is proof?" asked Ellery. "It's merely the clothing of what we already know to be true. Anybody can prove anything, given sufficient will to believe.

A man does what he feels is right, no matter what it costs him.

I don't make impulsive decisions. You are my one impulse, and yet I know in my gut that it's the right one.

Many people had a fatalistic outlook, a conviction that life's vicissitudes were predetermined by fate, which must have been useful in such a violent age, when the world was very uncertain.

Every falsity is something we can convince ourselves of, and when we have done so it seems to us to be the truth:

Anything worth doing is equally worth doing properly. As well, anything worth saying is worth saying boldly (without fear, compromise or favour). ~Emeasoba George

Faith is a belief in God/possibility/reality that is strictly based on spiritual conviction/assurance rather than proof.

Faith is just what it takes to keep/hold one's end up i.e. to hold one's stand/belief inspite of predicaments of a lifetime. So, you've got to imbibe & portray faith.

Faith is simply, believing undoubtedly in possibilities and positivities even if/when it seems unreasonable to believe in them.

Faith is the only virtue that makes/will make what you hope for a reality. Therefore, have/portray a living faith in order to metamorphose your hopes into realities.

Faith is, professing publicly/undoubtedly/convincingly whatever you believe in, reaffirming it and standing up for it no matter what happens.

Faith isn't believing what you can see. Rather, it's believing undoubtedly what you've not yet seen. Yes that is it, although many do think and say seeing is believing. But, I'm proud to inform you, that is not faith at all. Because, an actual faith is all about being self convinced about something even when it is not yet evident.

You ought to be professing/publicizing whatever you believe in and as well hang on to it i.e. you've got to hold on firmly to it no matter what happens. Yes, you've got to be doing just that.