Quotes About Conviction

Archie." He was gruff. "No man can hold himself accountable for the results of his psychological defects, especially those he shares with all his fellow men, such as lack of omniscience. It is a vulgar fallacy that what you don't know can't hurt you; but it is true that what you don't know can't convict you.

Such is the ability of man to believe in what at any time he finds it convenient to believe, they may actually have convinced themselves that they were speaking the truth.

Faith is a choice; anyone who says otherwise is trying to convert you.

Faith is to believe that which you do not yet see; and the reward of this faith is to see that which you believe. - Saint Augustine of Hippo P.g64

There are two kinds of people: Those who say, "I will believe it when I see it." And those who say, "To see it, I know I must believe

The things that come most quickly into your life are the things that you BELIEVE in the most. You can bring to you only what you BELIEVE, so you must BELIEVE to receive what you want.

Believing contains no doubt. Believing

Take that doubt and shift it. Recognize that feeling and replace it with a feeling of unwavering faith.

affirmations depends entirely on how much you believe them when you say them. If there is no belief, then the affirmation is just words that have no power. Belief adds power to your words.

does not waver. Believing is absolute faith. Believing remains steadfast despite what is happening in the outside world. When you master believing, you have mastered your life.

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.

I believe what I believe is what makes me what I am

Faith is a matter of the will as much as it is of the intellect. I wanted to believe in Jesus. My friend wanted to believe in himself. In spite of how convincing my reason was, my reason was not compelling.

This is one of the passages in the letter that could hardly have come from the pen of Paul. The assertion that women will be saved through bearing children clashes flagrantly with Paul's profound conviction that all human beings are saved only by virtue of the death of Christ. The lame exoneration of Adam (2:13–14) also sits oddly in conjunction with Paul's portrayal in Romans 5:12–21 of Adam as the source of sin and typological representative of sinful humanity.

All are making haste towards hell, until by conviction, Christ brings them to a halt, and then, by conversion, turns their hearts and lives sincerely to himself.

Lord, will you send me with such an unbelieving heart to persuade others to believe? Must I daily plead with sinners about everlasting life and everlasting death, and have no more belief or feeling of these weighty things myself? Oh send me not naked and unprovided to the work; but, as you command me to do it, furnish me with a spirit suitable thereto." Prayer

Publicans and harlots do sooner come to heaven than Pharisees, because they are sooner convinced of their sin and misery.

They will understand a familiar speech, who hear a sermon as if it were nonsense, and they have far greater help for the application of it to themselves. And withal you will hear their objections, and know where it is that Satan hath most advantage over them, and what it is that stands up against the truth; and so may be able to shew them their errors, confute their objections, and more effectually convince them.

He that believeth that he believe, believeth himself and not God (333)[.]

And once we decide to do something, we should never look back, never regret it.

diga lo que piensa y crea en lo que dice"; de preferencia, dígalo con pocas y bien escogidas palabras.

Lincoln had a stubborn concern for first principles.

We can only believe what we have evidence enough to prove.