Quotes about Persuasion

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

how I conveyed information was often as important as the information itself.

The aim of forensic oratory is to teach, to delight, to move.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Whoever tells the best story wins.

Talking with an atheist is like trying to reason with someone who denies the existence of the sun.

He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.

And this our God, so Scripture says, rejoices over us when we are persuaded that He is not incensed at us but is our kind and lovable Friend.

Don't let the culture influence your message, let your message influence the culture.

Caesar's messengers didn't go round the world saying, 'Caesar is lord, so if you feel you need to have a Roman-empire kind of experience, you might want to submit to him'.

There is no reason in principle why the question, what precisely happened at Easter, cannot be raised by any historian of any persuasion. Even if some Christians might wish to rule it off limits, they have (presumably) no a priori right to tell other historians, whether Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, New Agers, gnostics, agnostics, or anyone else, what they may and may not study.

Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are left with is emotional blackmail. We sometimes call it 'moral blackmail,' but it has nothing to do with morals, only with the implied juvenile threat of having a tantrum unless everyone else gives in.