Quotes About Conviction

Crockett doubted if we could ever convict Manson, because "he does nothing himself. His people do it all for him. He doesn't do anything anybody could pin on him." He added that "all the women have been programmed to do exactly as he says, and they all have knives. He's got those girls so programmed that they don't even exist. They are a copy of him.

You can convince anybody of anything if you just push it at them all of the time. They may not believe it 100 percent, but they will still draw opinions from it, especially if they have no other information to draw their opinions from.

Vincent Bugliosi

We must never allow the non-Christians to think that we are prepared to accept their beliefs or to make the slightest adjustment to the Christian worldview.

Faith is belief in a person, not facts about the person.

with the Spirit, even half a verse of Scripture inadvertently overheard by an unbeliever can crush his obstinacy and convert his soul.

Christians should not let the world convince them that it is foolish to believe in God or to obey his commands.

It is not up to you to uphold or ignore an essential aspect of a biblical doctrine just because it is convenient for you at the moment or because you want to make a point.

Dogmatic" can simply mean "doctrinal"[42] or "based on a priori principles, not on induction."[43]

Either we think that all non-Christians are stupid and in the dark, or we call God a liar.

Thus Christians must regard non-Christians as intellectually and ethically inferior. Of course non-Christians may think that this is an unkind and offensive assessment, but Christians must not think like them.

Would the unbeliever really believe in Christ just because you argue for biblical infallibility in a way that he cannot rationally object?

What feeble intellect and character a person must have, to turn from Christ just because someone else does!

Let us, therefore, first maintain our confession of faith. Let us pray, study, and build up one another through mutual instruction and encouragement, so that we may become convinced and established in the faith, and thus remain under the invincible promise of Christ.

You cannot preach like a Christian and then vote like an atheist. If you do, you are probably just an atheist.

no Christian should be open-minded about whether Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation – we already know that Jesus Christ is the only way to salvation. Open-mindedness is often just a mask for ignorance and cowardice.

it is not an apologetic to close your mouth and expect the unbelievers to convince themselves that the gospel is true because of your love and holy lifestyle.

But I, for my part, am convinced that in this respect one can have faith in modern art. The fact that I have a definite belief about art makes me sure of what I want in my own work, and I shall try to reach it even at the risk of my own life.

Ah, if only I could bring home to you how much more satisfaction you yourself might find, how much more you would be a friend to me if, instead of that frigid and unkind slighting and keeping me at a distance (only think of last summer, and the preceding summers!), you could at long last gain the conviction that this is not the right way.

Faith," I said. "What's that?" "It's believing in something you can't see, hear, or feel.

They can do all because they think they can.

We only truly fight to make changes when we believe in those changes with all our heart. You have to want your dream badly enough to hold on through the rough times.

People believe easily when it doesn't cause them any discomfort. It's when it hurts to believe that believing means something.

La passione è uno strumento di difesa della ragione. Perché non basta avere ragione: bisogna anche, appassionatamente, difenderla.