Quotes about Conviction
Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale! Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appall!
— Herman Melville
Live what is within you out loud.
— Lisa Bevere
If it is true that the great missionaries of the 16th century were convinced that one who was not baptized was lost - and that explains their missionary commitment - in the Catholic Church after the Second Vatican Council, that conviction was definitely abandoned.
— Pope Benedict XVI
What I discovered is that when God took the anger out of my heart, He also took the fear. I know that telling the truth makes enemies, but my message is right and just, and I have no desire to modify it to please others.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.
— William James
Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
— Alexander Hamilton
You will readily believe me when I say that on leaving my country, I little imagined that I should ever become a Baptist. I had not indeed candidly examined the subject of baptism, but I had strong prejudices against the sect, that is everywhere spoken against.
— Adoniram Judson
If it does not appear reasonable to you, it is reasonable for you, to believe in God.
— Cornelius Van Til
The greatest happines of life is the conviction that we are loved-loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
— Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved — loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
— Victor Hugo
A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
— Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
— Victor Hugo