Quotes About Conviction

Christians have an unfair advantage in the marketplace of ideas: We have truth on our side! You

Thus, although arguments and evidence may be used to support the believer's faith, they are never properly the basis of that faith.

The thing I love about a blue drink is that it isn't pretending to be anything other than a prissy, made-up concoction for people who can't drink their whiskey straight. A cocktail with the courage of its lack of conviction.

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch And I will be heard.

Had I been wrong, this would still have been the honorable thing to do. I am very glad, however, to find out that I was right.

And that is the terrible myth of organized society, that everything that's done through the established system is legal -- and that word has a powerful psychological impact. It makes people believe that there is an order to life, and an order to a system, and that a person that goes through this order and is convicted, has gotten all that is due him. And therefore society can turn its conscience off, and look to other things and other times.

God never intended the law to be the means of giving life. Rather it was designed to bring the knowledge of sin and to convict of sin.

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry—every man of every nation has done that—'tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Some people were in the park pretending it was warm, exercising that necessary Scottish thrift with weather which hoards every good day in the hope of some year amassing a summer. The scene was a kind of Method School of Weather—a lot of people trying to achieve a subjective belief in the heat in the hope of convincing one another.

My friend, I am no longer an atheist. Come on, I want to show you.

But an innocent conviction of grace, once lost, cannot easily be regained.

The better a singer's voice, the harder it is to believe what they're saying.

Because with courage and conviction I believe we can deliver a more flexible, adaptable and open European Union in which the interests and ambitions of all its members can be met.

I leave this rule for others when I'm dead,Be always sure you're right—then go ahead.

Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead.

Maker sure you're right, then go ahead.

be always sure you're right, THEN GO AHEAD!

To have faith is to refuse to doubt. The phrase "not doubt" is not intended to describe an especially strong faith, a faith strong enough to see miracles, as opposed to a weak faith that is haunted by doubt and cannot see miracles. Rather, eschewing doubt is the very definition of faith; a faith willing to ask for miracles, however tentatively, is the faith that will one day see miracles.

Although I cannot prove this scenario, I know it—and isn't that the ultimate definition of faith? Knowing what we can't know. Seeing what isn't there.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Its impossible to invest your soul in a compromise.

It is true, of course, that great preachers are always few and far between in any age. But in every age there should be enough preachers to do the job, preachers who are conscientious, who know what it is to labor over Scripture during the week and then on Sunday deliver its truth with some conviction, with some insight, with some depth, and with some application to life, and in the Holy Spirit's power.