Quotes About Conviction

If you're too chicken to repent, then please don't ever say Christianity is for weak people.

Show me how to carry Your Presence boldly, not trying to reduce Your truth in fear of offending people.

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them." ( The Decider , July 21, 2007)

Among their many fans was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, who became a convinced spiritualist and spent the last dozen years of his life deeply involved in the occult.

Fear especially marked him—fear of what he was doing and at the same time fear that nobody would believe him.

engraved on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington: "God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

I'm more affected than ever by that sweet and powerful aura of the church; that marvelous spiritual essence flowing down by the centuries touches me as no other emanation does, but when I look at the authoritative layout, despite all the arguments in its favor, I still can't warm up. No affirmative conviction comes.

Our passion is our strength.

I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile.

Politics is only worthwhile if you are doing what you believe, regardless of the slings and arrows.

Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals.

It's actually been pretty liberating for me to fully get behind a cause that I feel is worthy and to stand on it and to follow where my heart takes me.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

The name 'Seventh-day Adventist' carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow from the Lord's quiver, it will wound the transgressors of God's law, and will lead to repentance toward God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

I do not choose characters because I think, 'Wow, that woman is so strong.' I chose these characters with utmost conviction because I think they were realistic enough to exist, and I really liked the scripts.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

Every time you have a huge fight in wrestling, in boxing, in MMA, both guys are sure they're going to win. They really believe it.