Quotes about Conviction

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you," he said.

we should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true.

As Paul Tournier said, "Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no longer any opportunity for faith either.

Condemnation always leads to guilt-laden discouragement, while conviction—though often painful in pointing out our wrongdoing—still somehow encourages and lifts us, giving us hope to rebuild on.

is a full-time accuser. He does it "day and night," the Bible says (Rev. 12:10). Instead of convicting you for the purpose of restoration, as God's Spirit does, he condemns you for the purpose of destroying, humiliating.

Creating time, space, and opportunity to hear God is paramount for those of us who desire to sense His Spirit's conviction, to receive His detailed guidance, and to discern His intimate leading. Before

Romans 14:23, which says, "Whatever is not from faith is sin".

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

God doesn't believe in atheists.

People always want to doubt you.

Every historian, whether he is a Christian or not, ought to take account of this strange fact—that a certain Jesus, a man who lived in the first century in Palestine, was actually convinced, as He looked out upon the men who thronged about Him, that He would one day sit on the judgment-seat of God and be their judge and the judge and ruler of all the world.

Indifferentism about doctrine makes no heroes of the faith.