Quotes About Conviction

Just because you believe it doesnt make it so.

You are so intent that you believe only what you believe that you believe, that you remain utterly blind to what you really believe without believing that you believe it.

him took place all over the country. And—for better or worse—his conviction that Chinese needed a protracted period of firm, authoritarian political tutelage before democracy could be risked has become the template for reform ever since. As

If the Christian faith is true, it is true even if no one believes it, and if it is not true, it is false even if everyone believes it. The truth of the faith does not stand and fall with our defense of it.

Creative persuasion is a matter of being biblical, not of being either modern or postmodern.

It is no great feat to burn a little man. It is a great achievement to persuade him. ERASMUS, LETTER

There are no foolproof methods of persuasion, and those that come closest are coercive and dangerous because they override the will rather than convince the mind.

As John Wesley advised his young preachers in his day (when the Bible still shaped the horizon of most people's lives), "Preach the Law until they are convicted, then preach Grace until they are converted.

Erudition lends conviction to self-deception.

This book focuses on a narrower issue and a simple problem: We have lost the art of Christian persuasion and we must recover it.

Man's love of truth is such that when he loves something which is not the truth, he pretends to himself that what he loves is the truth, and because he hates to be proved wrong, he will not allow himself to be convinced that he is deceiving himself. So he hates the real truth for what he takes to his heart in its place.

Our urgent need today is to reunite evangelism and apologetics, to make sure that our best arguments are directed toward winning people and not just winning arguments, and to seek to do all this in a manner that is true to the gospel itself.

Either we may seek to conform our desires to the truth, which leads to conviction, or we may seek to conform the truth to our desires, which leads to evasion.

we Christians must show again that we are both people of the Word and people who believe in words. Words are never mere words for us

Again, the heart of apologetics is the apologetics of the heart.

Christians," as that crusty old philosopher Bertrand Russell used to quip, "would sooner die than think—in fact they do.

In a post-Christian era many of our friends, neighbors, and colleague will reject God for a score of reasons, but we must live and speak that they reject God for God's sake and not because of what we have said or done that has framed God wrongly.

unbelief turns on an act of will and a habit of mind shaped by choice.

From then on, however, I came to hold, almost as a philosophical conviction, the belief: What is society but an individual?

From then on, however, I came to hold, almost as a philosophical conviction, the belief: What is society but an individual? From the moment I suspected that society might be an individual I was able to act more in accordance with my own inclinations.

We are not children; we might exchange empty theories until we're out of breath and merely end up adhering all the more stubbornly to our respective views

Create a sense of obligation. When you want to persuade someone to do something, one of the best ways you can accomplish this task is to make that person feel obligated to you.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.