Quotes about Conviction

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

A kind, courteous Christian is the most powerful argument in favor of the gospel that can be produced.

Good and happy people who believe in God are the greatest living arguments for God's existence.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.

Here is the salient fact which distinguishes the English Revolution from all others: that those who wielded irresistible physical force were throughout convinced that it could give them no security. Nothing is more characteristic of the English people than their instinctive reverence even in rebellion for law and tradition. Deep in the nature of the men who had broken the King's power was the conviction that law in his name was the sole foundation on which they could build.

We think of a martyr as one who dies for his faith; however, it is really one whose life is so totally committed to his faith that nothing will dissuade him from it, not even the threat of death. His death does not make him a martyr; it only confirms that he was truly a martyr.

If other people choose to believe because I do, great. I want to show people God's love through what I do and who I am. At the same time, I don't feel I need to pass out Bibles at the concert.

conversion is a necessary and moral duty for every man.

Faith, which forms its positive side is at the same time cognitio and fiducia, a trustful knowledge and a knowing trust.