Quotes About Conviction

A man has to believe in something, and I believe I'll have another drink.

I believe that the Bible does not model a faith that depends on certainty for the simple fact that the Bible does not provide that kind of certainty. Rather, in all its messy diversity, the Bible models trust in God that does not rest on whether we are able to be clear and certain about what to believe.

Doubt can certainly leave us empty and frightened, but that is precisely the benefit of doubt: it exposes the folly that strong faith means you need to "know what you believe," that the more faith you "have," the more certain you are.

I am not trying to offer a cheap apologetic for the resurrection of Christ; accepting the resurrection of Christ is truly a matter of faith.

Believing is easy. It gives us wiggle room to think our way out of a tight spot. But trust doesn't have any wiggle room. It explodes it. Trust is about being all in.

Faith describes our whole way of looking at life and how we act on that.

A faith that rests on knowing, where you have to "know what you believe" in order to have faith, is disaster upon disaster waiting to happen. It values too highly our mental abilities. All it takes to ruin that kind of faith is a better argument. And there's always a better argument out there somewhere.

He'd learned long ago that logic and facts never meant anything to true believers—of anything.

Only one way to be sure.

Horst didn't believe in ghosts.

We must know that we can do what we have to do.

You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.

I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.

The true reality of things is not important. What's important is what people believe

my conviction that the Holocaust is no less historically explicable than any other human experience, though the job is not easy.

Faith hears the truth of the gospel, believes it and then acts upon it.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

So on that day all the troops and all Israel were convinced that the king had no part in the murder of Abner son of Ner.

The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?

When the king heard the words of the Book of the Law, he tore his clothes

I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die.

but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and rich blessing will come upon them.

Remember this and be brave; take it to heart, you transgressors!

I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.