Quotes about Conviction
Jesus had been crucified years before her birth, but in John, as in her father, she saw the Lord. In John's dear face she found infinite compassion, love, the glow of fierce conviction, the strength of true faith.
— Francine Rivers
And without faith, we have no hope.
— Francine Rivers
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he shatter her? 'What has this god of yours ever really done for you?' She stood very still for a long moment, her back to him. 'Everything.
— Francine Rivers
Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!
— Frank Herbert
He thinks that by repeating he creates some kind of truth.
— Frank Herbert
They are never going to invite you back, so you might as well open your mouth and unload both barrels of that gun. Say what you got to say.
— Franklin Graham
If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.
— Peter Marshall
If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Vitam impendre vero. (To stake one's life for the truth.)
— Madeleine L'Engle
It is not the vaccinationists but the antivaccinationists who generate zeal. People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You must not refuse to do this, or you, too, will be accused. In the town they have convicted entire families." Richard said, "There was another carpenter, once, and he would have refused to do this thing. Him I will follow.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Most of the great universities of the West were founded with the conviction that theology is the queen of the disciplines. (...) Now, in the latter part of the twentieth century, that tradition has almost disappeared.
— Malcolm Muggeridge