Quotes about Conviction

People do not risk their lives in the face of persecution to uphold a view they believe to be in error or only somewhat probable.

Indeed, the dirty secret of Christian apologetics is this: there is no human argument that is guaranteed to overcome unbelief.

There must be head faith before there can be heart faith. We must believe intellectually before we can believe savingly in the Lord Jesus.

The prickings of an uneasy conscience are not the same as the conviction of sin which is produced by the Holy Spirit.

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach.

If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.

I'm not ashamed of the Gospel.

I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend.

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

it annoys me to see people comfortable when they ought to be uncomfortable; and I insist on making them think in order to bring them to conviction of sin. If you don't like my preaching you must lump it. I really cannot help it. In the preface to my Plays for Puritans I