Quotes About Conviction

Faith is a continuation of reason.

Give me a hundred men who fear nothing but God, and who hate nothing but sin, and who know nothing but Jesus Christ and him crucified, and I will shake the world.

When I tell any truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

Nevertheless, to keep a good conscience, and walk in such a way as God has prescribed in his word, is a thing which I must prefer before you all, and above life itself.

Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Christian faith is not (not always? not usually?) a call to caution and moderation.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

On another occasion, when a party of two hundred Muslims turned up at the Palace demanding to be allowed to slaughter cows – holy to Hindus – at 'Id, Zafar told them in a 'decided and angry tone that the religion of the Musalmen did not depend upon the sacrifice of cows'.

I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist.

Be not Christians by halves, but go through with it; the thorough Christian is the true Christian.

Doctrine. That it is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to get an established judgment of the truth, but also to maintain a steadfast profession of the truth. This

It is a very small thing to be judged by man now for our boldness, but dismal to be condemned by Christ for our cowardice

We see ourselves in a dark room, and we think we are fine and clean; but would we compass ourselves with the beams of God's glorious majesty and holiness, then the sun rays would not discover more atoms in the air, than the holiness of God would convince of sin to be in us. But it is the trick of pride not to come where it may be outshined; it had rather go where it shall be adored, than where it is sure to be put to shame.

Conscience is God's sergeant he employs to arrest the sinner.

Amor meus pondus meum—every man goes where his love carries him. If the world has your love, on it you will spend your lives; if truth has your hearts, you will catch the blow that is made at it in your own breasts, rather than let it fall on it.

What Bernard saith of a hard heart I may say of an unbelieving heart, illud cor verè durum, quod non trepidat, ad nomen cordis duri—that is a hard heart indeed, saith he, that trembles not at the name of a hard heart.

No, the Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.

If he cannot shed tears, much less will he bleed for truth.

That it is the saint's duty, and should be their care, not only to get an established judgment of the truth, but also to maintain a steadfast profession of the truth.