Quotes about Conviction

Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.

You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not.

Faith and unfaith can ne'er be equal powers; Unfaith is aught is want of faith in all.

I'm passionate. I find if I really believe something, I want to put my entire being behind it.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

The Bible tells us that there are some things worth fighting for. In fact, the Bible says there's some things worth dying for.

I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'

People don't believe what you tell them. They rarely believe what you show them. They often believe what their friends tell them. They always believe what they tell themselves.

Lord, what you call compassion, others call weakness. What you call conviction, others call dissidence. What you call love, others call mixing with sinners. We pray that we too might be found weak, dissident, and in bad company, especially if it means we are closer to you. Amen.

Ignatius of Lyon said this in the second century: "Christianity is not a matter of persuasive words. It is a matter of true greatness as long as it is hated by the world.

Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.