Quotes About Conviction

As Talleyrand memorably said, 'The truth is whatever is plausibly asserted and confidently maintained.' If I tell you something three times you will believe it, said the Bellman, and usually we do.

Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.

To doubt," Os Guinness writes, "is to waver between the two, to believe and disbelieve at once and to be 'in two minds.

When you believe something to be true, you are "in one mind" about accepting it; when you do not believe something to be true, you are "in one mind" about rejecting it. "To doubt," Os Guinness writes, "is to waver between the two, to believe and disbelieve at once and to be 'in two minds.

Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.

Do you want to come in? Take a deep breath. The repo man is gone. All I had to do was show him My favorite gun And tell him about My conviction That a shame-faced galaxy Mutters a homily of return.

My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.

It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.

Find something you would die for and give your life to it.

Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

If you don't believe in the messenger, you won't believe the message.

Remember, it's not "stand firm for the faith" but "stand firm in the faith." You've got to own it and live it.

If counseling is to be restored to the church, affection must be restored to reflection. If counseling is to be restored to the church, delight in God must be restored to doctrines about God. Savoring Christ must be restored to seeing Christ. Tender contrition must be restored to tough conviction. Communication with God must be restored to contending for God.

The purpose of continuous repentance in the life of a quality man is not a return to the crisis of salvation but part of what the Bible calls sanctification. Repentance is the choice to embrace the Holy Spirit's daily work of convicting us about ongoing sin. "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Faith is active confidence in God.

the unpopularity of an obviously right action should not hinder the execution of an obviously right decision. My

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence

The people I know who thought brutal thoughts and acted in brutal ways - the racists, the sexists, the bigots - never seemed to doubt themselves. They were always sure that they were right... I almost envied them the strength of their beliefs. It must have made life so much easier for them.

Whatever he believed, he believed. It didn't matter to him whether it was really true or not. He just changed the truth till it fit him. He was a real white man.

I am not arguing with you—I am telling you.

The only rigidity lies in our will, our conviction that we are on the right road and that our initiatives are most pressing.'

The reformer," Douglass explained in 1883, had "a difficult and disagreeable task before him. He has to part with old friends; break away from the beaten paths of society, and advance against the vehement protests of the most sacred sentiments of the human heart.

We all need a solid belief system, a moral compass, to guide us when temptations crop up or peer pressure goes against what we know in our hearts is right.

There is more to courage than jumping into a river to save someone's life. It is also being willing to speak up and say that something isn't right ~ even if that means going up against what others may believe.